{"id":37669,"date":"2016-12-10T14:00:07","date_gmt":"2016-12-10T07:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/oh-for-the-1960s-people-earned-less-but-could-afford-more\/"},"modified":"2016-12-10T14:01:08","modified_gmt":"2016-12-10T07:01:08","slug":"oh-for-the-1960s-people-earned-less-but-could-afford-more","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/oh-for-the-1960s-people-earned-less-but-could-afford-more\/","title":{"rendered":"Oh for the 1960s! People earned less but could afford more"},"content":{"rendered":"


\nMy 90-year-old father was, in today\u2019s terms, earning \u00a325,000 at the time. But he had a house, a TV and a Ford PopularThe Bank of England governor told us this week there has been a \u201clost decade\u201d of wage growth. But is the truth really a lot worse than that?By chance it was the same week my 90-year-old father decided to show me his carefully filed tax returns from the 1960s (yes, that\u2019s what counts for fun in the Collinson household). In 1963-64 his pay as an accounts clerk in London was \u00a31,357 a year. In today\u2019s money that equals a little over \u00a325,000 a year once inflation is taken into account. Continue reading…
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\nSource : theguardian.com
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