I was looking through my bookmarks for something interesting that I had saved for a rainy day, or just for a spare moment, and I found this.

It's a rather nifty calculator that takes your annual income and places you into a percentile in relation to where you fit on the Global Rich List.

My annual income being about AUD$12000, which works out at about USD$9000, means that I am in the top 13.47% of rich people in the world, and from this it follows that there are just under five and a half billion people poorer than me.

Talk about sobering statistics.

Interestingly, if you enter in USD$400 000, which is the annual salary of the President of the United States, the calculator places them on the 0.001 percentile, and then states that the calculator can't do sums that big anyway.

(By the way, didn't the President of the United States used to only get USD$250 000 p.a? When did it change?)

At least we can all feel vindicated in our disgust of CEO's getting multi-million dollar payouts upon leaving corporate boards and organisations.