Today's figures show average pay is only rising at 0.7% while inflation is running at 2.7%.
Last winter, he made a guest appearance on the reality show "Average Joe".
Care workers' payslips, often pages long, must be simplified to show average hourly pay.
Government figures show average rents increased by 20% between 2001/02 and 2007/08 but house prices rose by 61%.
I have been looking at published stats purporting to show average student debt after four years of college.
The MoJ's figures show average time served by those on mandatory life sentences has risen from 14 years in 2006 to 17 years in 2013.
Latest figures show average earnings overtaking the government's favoured consumer price index, but they still lag behind the retail price index, which includes housing costs.
Results show average scores rising for students in the fourth grade and eighth grade since 1990, and those for 12th graders increasing until 1996 but dropping in 2000.
But CCWater pointed out that the figures show average bills while what customers actually end up paying will vary depending on individual circumstances.
Figures from the ONS show average prices up 3.3% over the 12 months to July, and that was largely driven by London, where prices were up 9.7%.
The latest British data show average salaries up by 1.7% in a year; with inflation close to zero this is a decent real-terms rise.
