On 10/06/2011 09:13 AM, Invisible wrote:
> On 09/06/2011 02:11 PM, Invisible wrote:
>>
http://www.statistics.gov.uk/downloads/theme_labour/ashe-2010/2010-all-employees.pdf
>>
>
> Hmm. Given the various percentile points, is it possible to estimate
> which percentile an arbitrary value would fall into? (Beyond "somewhere
> between these two data points".)

Looking at the graph [for male full-time employment in 2010], it seems 
that these values actually form a surprisingly straight line until you 
each roughly the 70th percentile (then it starts to curve upward more 
sharply).



the 15th percentile.

So yes. Apparently I now earn more money than 15% of the people who are 
in full-time employment. Or, if you're a glass-half-empty person, I earn 
less than what 85% of the population in full-time employment earns.

Also, apparently due to minimum wage laws, the lowest sum that you can 

so above that.

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