Key facts

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.
The average CEO earns 250 times more than the average cleaner.
Levels of social mobility in the UK are the lowest among all developed economies.
There are more than 50 hedge fund managers among Britain’s richest 1,000 people. (Source: Sunday Times Rich List)

Bank bail-outs
The Bank of England estimates that the total cost of bailing out the financial system is £

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