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Originally Posted by Danzig
and, yet another reason why using a national average can be difficult. in most parts of the country, 250k would be considered well above middle class. where i live, that wage would be in the very top of the top 1% of the state. but then, a few years back, if you made over 60k a year, you were in the top 2% of wage earners in arkansas. obviously nyc is an extreme, which is why i said consider median income...and there are a lot of people trying to get by in nyc with a lot less than the money you referenced.
edit~~ just visited slate to see if there was anything new, and saw this:
http://www.slate.com/blogs/moneybox/..._bay_area.html
at 2k a week, that's 104k per year. so, if that's the average for new york, one could safely assume that is the middle, right? which means 250k is far above that. perhaps upper middle class? or maybe lower upper class! at any rate, far above average. |
Even here, if you live in Denver 250K is not a lot of $, certainly below wealthy. That NYC average has to be brought way down by the preponderance of service industry employees in the city. When I worked in Manhattan I had friends that shared a 450sq/ft apartment for too much money, way uptown (uptown = bad) just to not have to cross any bridge/tunnel to get home.