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Who can tell me what this is in today's prices?

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StarOfValkyrie · 08/06/2010 19:00

£14,250 in 2002/03.

What would today's equivelent be?

Ta very much!

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mranchovy · 08/06/2010 19:22

I would like to recommend www.measuringworth.com but its data set is a bit out of date, so I'll just have to say it's about £17,300.

StarOfValkyrie · 08/06/2010 20:12

Yay. How on earth did you figure that out?

£3k in 10 years doesn't seem to be much though!?

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mranchovy · 08/06/2010 20:34

I used this. It's only 7 years from the end of 2002 to the end of 2009, and inflation has been relatively low for those 7 years.

Of course there are many measures of the changing worth of money, for instance unadjusted average weekly earnings across the economy in March 2010 were £497 and in 2002 were £348 (from the Office of National Statistics Monthly Digest). £14,250 / £348 x £497 = £20,350 approx. so if you earned £14,250 in 2002 you would need to earn £20,350 now to have kept pace with the increase in average earnings.

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