029 = Product Labels and Public Payrolls
A Problem Squared
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The Average Salary in the UK
The UK government budget is £842 billion. It doesn't all come from income tax or see the different types of taxes. If you're earning a pretty standard amount of money in the UK, 0.0006% of the government spending came from your taxes and then you just work out that percentage of the teachers' pay. An entire class's worth of salaries of parents is one penny of your annual salary. And so it turns out almost exactly if you're a teacher and you look at your class, all the tax paid by all their parents contributes pretty much one penny to your annual Salary.
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