Have you ever wondered how the typical British household spends their income each year? How does this look over a whole lifetime of employment?

We’ve delved deep into official ONS data to reveal just where our wages go and how much of our lives we spend working to cover various costs.

But how about when we look at this over a lifetime? Just how much of our lives do we spend working to keep a roof over our heads? To keep a car on the road or even on entertainment?

Here’s how the average Brit’s lifetime earnings are spent…

Methodology

The above was calculated using ONS data and by assigning 260 working days per year, 21.66 working days per month, 5 wortking days per week and 7.5 working hours per day.

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Sources

www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/personalandhouseholdfinances/incomeandwealth/datasets/nowcastinghouseholdincomeintheuk