The NRS Social Grade (Class) for GB

Britain is a nation riven by and obsessed with class. Developed by The National Readership Survey for Great Britain, the social grade are divided into six grades:

A: Upper Middle Class, Higher managerial, administrative or professional

B: Middle Class, Intermediate managerial, administrative or professional

C1: Lower Middle Class, Supervisory or clerical and junior managerial, administrative or professional

C2: Skilled Working Class, Skilled manual workers

D: Working Class, Semi and unskilled manual workers

E: Those at the lowest levels of subsistence, Casual or lowest grade workers, pensioners and others who depend on the state for their income

To further divide them into middle class and and working class, let alone upper class, ABC1 are the former and C2DE the latter.