social grade |
social status |
occupation |
A |
upper middle class |
higher managerial, administrative or professional |
B |
middle class |
intermediate managerial, administrative or professional |
C1 |
lower middle class |
supervisory or clerical, junior managerial, administrative or professional |
C2 |
skilled working class |
skilled manual workers |
D |
working class |
semi and unskilled manual workers |
E |
those at lowest level of subsistence |
state pensioners or widows (no other earner), casual or lowest grade workers |