How rich are you on a global scale?

[gangleri2001]

Have you ever wondered how rich are you on a global scale? Now you can find out using this web:

https://www.givingwhatwecan.org/get-involved/how-rich-am-i/

Please let us know your bracket (votes are not displayed publicly). Votes can be changed just in case you get richer (or poorer).

 

[yung.carl.jung]

I am poor af my man. ... you still have more than 0 (zero!!!) times the global average income...

thanks for reminding me I guess? minimum wage plus kitchen hours, couldn't be happier

 

[rah]

But they still wanted you to donate a % of that 0.

 

[Thorgalaeg]

I thought i was relatively poor but i am among the 3'9% richest people in the world!

*Run out to buy a yacht*

 

[Zkribbler]

Interesting that they're using income rather than assets to measure wealth.

 

[Farm Boy]

But they still wanted you to donate a % of that 0.

Of our labor as well as its fruits, one supposes.

 

[MaryKB]

Your website says I'm in the richest 0.7% in the world, but I was skeptical because this site's trying to convince me to give them money. So I also tried http://www.globalrichlist.com/ which says I'm at 0.15% and I'm ranked 9,213,818th in world income, which I just can't believe is true considering how many people in wealthy countries just have to be earning more than me, you know? I also tried https://politicalcalculations.blogs...our-world-income-percentile.html#.W4ae3OhKj4Y which says I'm at 99.3 percentile, which matches your first quiz, so those two at least agree. I thought this was rather an interesting idea. I also used payscale to compare my salary, and I make 90% of the average for my industry and title, which probably isn't surprising, but I really seriously doubt less than 10 million people earn more than I do.

That http://www.globalrichlist.com/wealth also has a wealth calculator, and that says I'm at 5.94% of wealth, or the 267,418,222nd richest person, lol.

 

[rah]

Yeah, basing it on just income and family size is a bit silly. I rate a lot higher than reality, I'm sure.

 

[yung.carl.jung]

Of our labor as well as its fruits, one supposes.

i'm not giving away my tomatoes, if anyone touches my garden I'll send em to the essence

 

[luiz]

Well chances are if you live in West Europe or the US and have some gainful employment, you're at the very least in the top 10% in terms of income. Hard currencies go a loooong way in poor counties.

 

[Synobun]

Rent is 95% of my monthly allowance. Sure, website, I'll donate 10% of my money.

 

[yung.carl.jung]

Rent is 95% of my monthly allowance. Sure, website, I'll donate 10% of my money.

iktfbro. when I still lived in eastern Germany I survived off of 3-4 euro a day for food, drinks, partying, clothing, university books, relationship, games, books, movies, literally everything I bought was contained within those 3-4 euros.

it wasn't a bad time thought and I don't remember it as a hardship, quite the opposite. I ate like a king every day and learned how to cook on an extremely tight budget.

legumes and flour go a long way. carrots, onions, taters and the occasional canned tomato. drinking only water and tea. I also lost a lot of weight like that, which I've recently regained

 

[Farm Boy]

Well chances are if you live in West Europe or the US and have some gainful employment, you're at the very least in the top 10% in terms of income. Hard currencies go a loooong way in poor counties.

It's really hard to visualize when people tend to surround themselves with those ~ in their bracket and cast their eyes higher. I'm having a hard time getting anyone under 50 to join the Lions. I don't think they have the perspective on how far a little grunt work can actually go when you're as far up the gilded tower as the American Midwest is. Exceptions obviously apply. They always do.

I sit through my wife's services every now and then. I think the preponderance of fault isn't necessarily in what we have done, as it is put, but probably in what we have failed to do, as it is also put.

 

[The_J]

So... I'm living in a rich western country, with nearly a PhD degree, and I'm only within the 36% richest people of the world? I'm disappointed . EDIT: Damn, annual income, that makes a difference, lol . Although top 3% seems a bit high too.

And no, you'll not get 10% of my income, screw you. I'm donating 1.2% each month, that's enough.

 

[civvver]

I was going to guess top 10% but it said 3.1 The tricky part is it said to use after tax income. Well what taxes should I include there? That's really tricky, so I just used payroll, fed and state income tax estimates and basically entered in 78% of my income. But I also pay property taxes, sales tax, gas tax, regulatory fees on phone and tv service and utilities, etc. I think they should use your pretax income and just estimate average taxes on your country entered.

 

[civvver]

Your website says I'm in the richest 0.7% in the world, but I was skeptical because this site's trying to convince me to give them money. So I also tried http://www.globalrichlist.com/ which says I'm at 0.15% and I'm ranked 9,213,818th in world income, which I just can't believe is true considering how many people in wealthy countries just have to be earning more than me, you know? I also tried https://politicalcalculations.blogs...our-world-income-percentile.html#.W4ae3OhKj4Y which says I'm at 99.3 percentile, which matches your first quiz, so those two at least agree. I thought this was rather an interesting idea. I also used payscale to compare my salary, and I make 90% of the average for my industry and title, which probably isn't surprising, but I really seriously doubt less than 10 million people earn more than I do.

That http://www.globalrichlist.com/wealth also has a wealth calculator, and that says I'm at 5.94% of wealth, or the 267,418,222nd richest person, lol.

It does some adjustment for family size. Is it just you? My percentile went from 3.1% to 0.3% just by changing it to 1 adult.

It's kind of like comparing yourself to average salaries vs household incomes. I'm in the 90% percentile for US individuals but as a household we are only 75-80% since I'm the only one with income.

 

[rah]

Yes, this calculator was so crude it was an obvious attempt to make you think you're in the highest level to encourage you to donate.
I'm shocked that didn't require an email address so they could continually hound you.

 

[Birdjaguar]

Wealth measures based on income only is silly. Their bad methodology sank their pitch.

 

[Uberfrog]

The proportion of income spent on rent varies wildly even within the same country (50% of the average monthly salary in London, compared with just over 20% in north east England). So it's facile to claim that some crude per country "cost of living" modifier is enough to declare that someone paying half of their take-home monthly income to a landlord is somehow "rich".

This marketing campaign that reassures you that you'll "still" be in the top few percentiles after forking over an eye-watering 10% of what's left after all that is a bit of a misfire.

 

[gangleri2001]

And no, you'll not get 10% of my income, screw you. I'm donating 1.2% each month, that's enough.

That's 14.4% of your income.