Bloom store in Accokeek, Maryland. Bloom was a chain of mid-grade North American grocery stores operated by Food Lion, originally established in 2004. The parent company of Food Lion, The Delhaize Group, announced in January 2012 that it was discontinuing the Bloom brand.
That gives you the answer-the world's average salary is $1,480 (Â£928) a month, which is just less than $18,000 (Â£11,291) a year. But these dollars are not normal US dollars. The economists use specially adjusted exchange rates-the average salary is calculated in Purchasing Power Parity (PPP) dollars.
The average annual salary for the 90th percentile (the top 10% highest paid) is $88,330. The median annual salary is $35,080. The average annual salary for the bottom 10% earners is $18,190. We note that the top 10% workers are paid nearly five times more than the bottom 10% workers in the United States.