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despite big pay packets? i think not for the majority of drivers, so it’s not britain anymore, it’s “treasure island” officially.
£35730 for an average 37 hour week, yeah right 
Wheel Nut:
£35730 for an average 37 hour week, yeah right
It’s “average” salary. So your lumping in the pay & working week of say a solicitor in London, with a van driver in the North East. If you removed the figures of the top 10% or so of the working population, along with salarys paid in the SE I expect you would get a very different result.
No need to be that complex sec.elephant, it would be enough if they stopped working out the average as arithmetic mean and started to use median (number in the middle of the pool) or mode (the most frequently occuring number in the pool).
But that’s either far beyond their knowledge or simply not in their interest.
HomoFaber:
it would be enough if they stopped working out the average as arithmetic mean and started to use median (number in the middle of the pool) or mode (the most frequently occuring number in the pool).
But that wouldn’t give the story that they want to tell. By using median or modal average you might actually get close to the truth - and why would they want the facts to get in the way of a good story?
Stan