Now I know that semantics can get a bit boring, but who is defining 'rich'.
A lot of contributors to this thread are talking disparagingly about rich people and I guess that most of them are not including themselves in that definition.

But I suspect that for most of the world's population, £20,000 a year represents untold wealth and they would include anyone with that sort of money in this discusion.

I doubt if most people in the U.K. on that salary would think of themselves as rich.

So should it be a multiple of the average wage or is it absolute figure?

K/van