[mattmanser]

Huh?

I have worked in a vast multitude of jobs, some manual, some temp office, some salaried, some self-employed, some company director.

Never in the UK have I ever heard of people making a distinction between a Wage and a Salary. They're the same thing.

Middle class means something completely different than the definition you're defending. Skilled office workers are firmly in the UK middle class (despite my Thatcher hating friend's assertion that he's not). It might be argued that unskilled office workers, like call centres, are now working class jobs.

[zem]

the distinction, in american english, is that a wage is a per-hour thing, whereas a salary is paid for a period of employment (usually a fortnight or a month), independent of the time you actually spent working within that period.

[mattmanser]

But we weren't talking about America, we were talking about the UK.