Take a minute to visit the Global Rich List. You can enter your annual salary and they’ll return some statistics and supporting graphics to show where you stand in relation to the rest of the world. Very, very interesting information.

The only thing that skews the data is that there is no scale for cost of living. Someone who makes $6,000 per year might be in the top 14% of the world’s population, but where does that put them in a country like ours where agriculture and other resources are not widely accessible without land ownership?

Their calculator makes nice use of AJAX (or equivalent) to update the page information without reloading, and they use some animated effects to move a red “this is you” indicator up and down their population graphic (you have to change your income level to see this). They also integrate your calculated hourly rate into the persuasive paragraph on the bottom half of the page.

Nicely done, and not a little sobering.

(via MikeNothum.com)