This is surely a question that many ask: from what salary is we considered rich in France? If everyone’s sensitivities in the face of this question can be very different, the observatory of inequalities wanted to define, in a recent report, a scale of criteria which makes it possible to distinguish the wealthy Fiançaisreports the site Lemon press.
Thus, in the event that you gain the equivalent of three smics each month, so you are considered to be part of 7 to 8% of the richest French. In detail, to be part of this very closed circle, a single and childless person must touch 3,860 euros net per month After taxes to be described as “rich”. For people as a childless couple, this remuneration must be 5,790 euros net per monthwhile it must be 6 948 euros For a couple with a child under the age of 14. Finally, for people as a couple with three children, you will need to pocket the sum of 10,808 euros net per month To be considered “rich”.
A approach copied on the establishment of a poverty line
The subject of money is often taboo in FranceAnne Brunner, the director of studies of the observatory of inequality estimated on RMC “that it is very difficult to pronounce the word “rich”». «We prefer to call a cat a catShe adds. While there is today a poverty line established by INSEE, Anne Brunner explains that this richness scale “offers the same approach based on people twice as rich as the middle classes».
Thus, when a single person earns 3,860 euros net per month – which makes them a rich person -, This amount actually represents double median salarynamely the salary which divides into two parts the employees of the country. Consequently, half of the employees earn a salary higher than the median salary while the other half earns a lower salary. “”What we want to underline is that when we earn more than 3,860 euros after taxes, we belong to the 7 % of the richest French. We define wealth as a gap in relation to the middle classes“Explains Anne Brunner.
