User blog comment:SsVivid/Monetary Reference Table/@comment-4536066-20130820173056

Now I'm looking at yearly incomes and starting with peasants. Speaking about a typical peasant who is neither starving nor doing well, I'd say that it would cost about 10gp to purchase food (like cheap bread or a potato) and (sanitary) drink for 3 meals a day, and then they would earn 20gp for other daily expenses like house upkeep or rudimentary supplies or animal feed. So, a third of their income would go to food if they didn't grow it themselves. That would mean a regular peasant makes 30gp per day, about 900gp per month, and about 11k per year (for each working peasant). They wouldn't have really any financial wiggle room for splurging and would have to do a lot of work, like building a cabin and growing food, on their own, and would have to save up for years to afford special items like large livestock or good city houses.

Large families who have multiple hands able to do work would be in better shape because they have more people available to help with work and bring in more income - a family of seven with two parents, three grown children, one young child, and one baby might earn 55k per year instead of just 11. (Father and adult children earn 11k each, young child and mother caring for baby earn 6.5k, baby earns none.)

Any thoughts on this?