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The super rich

The top 1% earn £118,027 or more per year. (Source: BBC).
In Bristol some of the top 1% are paid out of our council tax. (Source: Bristol Evening Post)
In Bristol, many of the Merchant Venturers will be part of the 1%.
The top 10% now have 100 times the wealth of the bottom 10%. (Source: Hills Report)
The top 10% earn 4.1 times the incomes of the bottom 10%, with the top 1% earning more than ten times that of the bottom 10%. This figure was 3.1 in 1961.
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