Can engineers be considered a middle class in London if they earn 2 times less on naverage than tube drivers?

Engineers? I work for a City of London trading and investment company, theres 4 people in my team, and the highest paid of us only receives (including annual bonus - none of us get overtime) £3000 a year more than a tube driver. The irony is that we get called "city fat cats", whilst the tube drivers whose job requires about as much intelligence as a monkey (or a robot), get £50K.

If I was the tube drivers, and TFL was such a terrible company to work for, I'd leave and work somewhere thats better. I know loads of people who'd love to get £50K a year for sitting on their backsides in a tube train.

Its nothing to do with the salary,its the "prestige" of the job.

I earn a lot more than a tube driver,most bank workers and most "professionals"yet I am "working class"-not that i could give a toss.

Who cares? Class shouldn't be important in 2015.

The idea of a class society in the UK has long since gone. We are a classless society.