Curator of Mastodon.art fediblock :newt: on Nostr: lain ok so i did some digging. An engineer earned around 110 pounds annually in ...

lain (nprofile…hmru) ok so i did some digging. An engineer earned around 110 pounds annually in ~1840, a senior clerk did 150, an army corner got 200. In todays GBP, that would be ~14000 to ~26000 per year. Judging from average salaries in Britain today, this would mean Brits only earn about twice as much today as they did 200 years ago. Though, today they also pay a huge lot of taxes on that income that didn't exist before. VAT didn't exist, for one.

Any how, my point is, Brits didn't become as rich over 200 years as their government did.

Sources:
https://victorianweb.org/economics/wages2.html
https://www.in2013dollars.com/uk/inflation/1840?amount=200

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