In todays monetary terms how much was £1000 worth in Victorian England?

Question

I often read in Jane Austens novels that Mr X, as an example, was worth £2000 per year and so on. In context, and comparable to today, I would like to determine how wealthy he would be in todays monetary value

Answer 1

This site has a lot of information: http://www.victorianweb.org/economics/wa...

Some more tidbits are here: http://www.measuringworth.com/ukcompare/

Some numbers gathered there:

a skilled laborer would earn 1.5 £/week or 75 £/year.

£100 would buy you a terrace house including the yard and a drain.

£1 would be roughly equivalent to $100 today.

Its calculator permitted to calculate that, £1000  from 1865 was worth today:

£64,977.59 using the retail price index

£87,277.30 using the GDP deflator

£550,590.64 using the average earnings

£629,028.29 using the per capita GDP

£1,265,792.01 using the share of GDP