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HOUSEHOLD TYPE OCCUPATION
SINGLE MALE SINGLEFEMALE
FEMALE PLUSDEPENDENT
COUPLES
Clerical and secretarial:Secretaries; clerks; cashiers;
banktellers; travel agents; receptionists; telephone operators
andcall centre operators.
Managerial and professional:Managers, directors and
otherexecutives; scientists and engineers; health
professionals;teachers; business professionals; lawyers; writers;
andtechnicians.
Craft and related: Builders; plumbers; electricians;
painters;welders; motor mechanics; handicraft workers; food
processingworkers; textile workers; garbage collectors; and
constructionand maintenance labourers.
Sales: Models; shop salespersons; shop demonstrators;
marketsalespersons; and street vendors.
Other: This includes occupations that do not t into one of
theother categories, but were not numerous enough to require
aseparate category.
Personal and protective services: Travel guides; waitersand
bartenders; child-care workers; personal care workers;hairdressers;
beauticians; undertakers; re-ghters; policeofcers; armed forces;
domestic helpers and cleaners;caretakers; messengers and
porters.
Plant and machine operatives: Power-production
operators;water-treatment operators; assembly-line operators;
industrial-robot operators; chemical-products machine operators;
printing-machine operators; sewing-machine operators;
food-processing-machine operators; and vehicle drivers.
Unemployed/disabled, students: This category includespeople who
are unable to participate in the active workforcedue to disability;
those w ho are currently unemployed, butavailable to take up
employment; and full-time students.
Home duties: This category includes people who look
afterchildren, older people and/or people with disabilities onan
unpaid basis, and people who are voluntarily not in thelabour
force.
Retired: This category comprises those who have retired onage
grounds.
Farmers: Crop growers; vegetable growers;
horticulturalists;dairy and livestock producers; poultry producers;
farmlabourers; forestry workers; and shery workers.
The couples icon includes couples with children and couples
withoutchildren as the latter were not numerous enough to be
representedon the chart. Same sex couples are not represented on
the chart asthe survey data does not include that information.
Each icon represents 2,800 households.
20,000
40,000
60,000
100,000
0
134,000
132,000
130,000
128,000
126,000
124,000
122,000
118,000
116,000
114,000
112,000
110,000
108,000
106,000
104,000
102,000
98,000
96,000
94,000
92,000
90,000
88,000
86,000
84,000
82,000
78,000
76,000
74,000
72,000
70,000
68,000
66,000
64,000
62,000
58,000
56,000
54,000
52,000
50,000
48,000
46,000
44,000
42,000
38,000
36,000
34,000
32,000
30,000
28,000
26,000
24,000
22,000
18,000
16,000
14,000
12,000
10,000
8,000
6,000
4,000
2,000
120,000
100,000
80,000
60,000
40,000
20,000
0
280,000
260,000
240,000
220,000
200,000
180,000
160,000
140,000
320,000
300,000
20,000
40,000
60,000
80,000
100,000
120,000
140,000
160,000
180,000
200,000
220,000
240,000
260,000
280,000
300,000
320,000
H.E.A.P. CHARTHierarchy of Earnings, Attributes and Privilege
Analysis
Continuing at this scale, to include the
income of 118 million, the average of
the top three wealthiest households in
Ireland in 2007, the chart would be 750m
high or 12.5 times taller than Liberty Hall.
WHAT THE CHART REPRESENTS:
The H.E.A.P. (Hierarchy of Earnings, Attributes and Privilege)
chartrepresents the income distribution of Irish households drawn
from the 2006
Survey of Income and Living Conditions (SILC) in Ireland. Due to
the extent
of Irish income inequality, and the limitations of a B1 poster,
we were notable to include the highest incomes in the main
chart.
The gures include all income before tax, including government
benets.We have not adjusted for household size.
The main chart shows incomes below 134,000, representing 95 per
centof the Irish population. The scaled-down version of the chart
shows incomes
up to 330,000. Due to space constraints we were not able to show
the icon
at the very top, a managerial/professional couple household
earning600,000. To put these gures in perspective, the average
industrial wage
in 2006 was around 30,000.
Four household types are represented: single males, single
females, singlefemales with dependents (children) and couples
households. T here were
not enough single men with children for us to represent them on
the chart.
As well as indicating household type, each icon also shows the
occupationof the adult family member(s), differentiated by colour.
The key below
provides a guide to household type and occupation.
USING THE CHART
To discover where you and your family are positioned in the
Irish social
H.E.A.P., you need to calculate your annual household
income:
1. Add together the incomes of all adults in your household.
2. Then add any government benets received.
3. Identify the icon which most closely corresponds to your
household
type and occupation.
4. Locate your income level on the vertical axis of the
chart.
5. Check this row for your icon or one which most closely
corresponds.
Chart authors: Professor Terrence McDonough and Jason Loughrey,
Social
Sciences Research Centre (SSRC), National University of Ireland
(NUI),
Galway.
Design: whitenoisestudios.com
Project supported by ICTU (Irish Congress of Trade Unions),
TASC
(Thinktank for Action on Social Change) and the SSRC (NUI
Galway).
MAIN
GRAPH
134,0
000
134,0
000
+
330,
0000
ON BOTH CHARTS, EACH ICON REPRESENTS
2,800 IRISH HOUSEHOLDS.
