He said couriers were earning "on average more than the London living wage".
Women work longer hours than men, but earn on average 20% less.
Sure enough, one group earned, on average, nearly ten chocolates per participant but only ended up eating four of them.
In 2001, according to the Economic Policy Institute*, a liberal think tank in Washington, workers with undergraduate degrees (but not graduate degrees) earned, on average, $30.05 an hour; last year, they earned $29.55 an hour.
Median earnings for men were $50,400 a year, while women earned on average about $39,600.
That year, median earnings for men were $50,400 a year while women earned on average about $39,600.
Sailors dreaming of riches earned, on average, 20 cents a day.
Last year, the poorest twenty per cent of the city's households earned, on average, $8,993, and the richest five per cent earned, on average, $436,931.
Last year, cooks earned on average $11.07 an hour and waiters earned $9.90 – including tips.
As to salaries, 25-year-old graduates earned on average £23,677 a year.
