Here are 10 facts about the new wealthy elite.

There are 475,000 people in the UK with an average income of over £200,000 a year, around 50,000 people earning more than £330,000 a year, and 25,000 more than £500,000.
Source: Tony Atkinson, Nuffield College, Oxford University

Anyone who has an income of £92,000 or more pre-tax is in the top per cent of earners in the country.
Source: Tony Atkinson, Nuffield College, Oxford University

The majority of those with incomes over £100,000 per year (56 per cent) live in London, the South East and East Anglia.
Source: Daniel Dorling, University of Sheffield/

Barclays Britain's highest paid accountant earned £2.9m last year, the top paid lawyer pulled in over £3m and the highest paid Chief Executive £7.4m.
Sources: Accountancy Age, The Lawyer, Incomes Data Service

Most people in Britain earn less than £19,000 a year.
Source: Office of National Statistics - Annual Survey of hours and Earnings 2004(Adult population in same full time employment for a year or more)

Britain's richest one per cent own 23 per cent of all personal wealth.
Source: Inland revenue - figures for 2002

22 per cent of total income tax in Britain is paid by the top one per cent of taxpayers - that's five per cent more than a decade ago.
Source: Inland Revenue

In 1990 10 per cent of national income went to the top one per cent. By 2000 it was 13 per cent.
Source: Tony Atkinson, Nuffield College, Oxford University

Since 1998 the average British employee's income went up 35 per cent; the average FTSE 350 company boss's income went up 163 per cent.
Source: Incomes Data Services

America's top bosses earn over 300 times more than production workers on average. In 1982 it was 42 times more.
Source: "Executive Excess 2004" Institute of policy studies/ United for a Fair Economy