Whatever Jeremy Hunt thinks, £100k is by any measure a high income

The chancellor’s comments have come in a week when data revealed a sharp deterioration in living standards at the lower end of the income spectrum. Photograph: Toby Melville/Reuters

Notwithstanding the struggles of Jeremy Hunt’s constituent, £100,000 a year in the UK is, by any possible objective measure, a high income.

The median for working-age households across the country is estimated to be just above £35,000, and anything higher than £81,357 puts you in the top 5%.