Thanks, your last para clears up the need for a classification, here we'd probably say middle-income as middle-class is not necessarily related to earnings.<p>I guess as class and income in the UK are not coterminous this leads to confusion. For example I earn well below the poverty line in the UK but would be described as middle class due to my education and parentage.<p>Beckham, for example, would probably come in as working class - son of a kitchen fitter and hairdresser (according to Wikipedia) low academic achievement, low IQ, no titled lineage.