How much you have to make to be considered middle class.

[unit321]

A recent analysis from Pew Charitable Trusts' Stateline blog found that the middle class shrunk in every state in the US between the years of 2000 and 2013 (the most recent data available).

"Middle class" is a tricky concept. Depending on where you live, you can feel middle class earning as much as $250,000 a year — about five times the US median income of $52,250 from the same time period.

In this analysis, Pew defined middle class households as those earning 67%-200% of a state's median income. So ... how much is that?

Below, we took the median income numbers from the US Census Bureau's 2013 American Community Survey, which Pew used in its analysis and which we've listed in the leftmost column. Then, we did the math to figure out how much middle-class earners make in each state, based on Pew's definition above. The states are listed in descending order based on median income.


http://finance.yahoo.com/news/much-earn-considered-middle-class-170000901.html

Chart is on the link above.

 

[Commander in Chiefin]

I guess that makes me middle, middle class

 

[Regular_P]

That California one seems awfully low.

 

[Bernie Madoff]

Id say single, 30k

 

[Camile.Bidan]

That California one seems awfully low.

if you live in the central valley, sacramento and parts of SoCal 50k is enough to live very nicely.

If you live in the Bay Area, 50k is poverty--straight equilavent to 10k or less in other parts of the country.


120k is not enough to be called middle class in the Bay Area, it's definitely not enough buy a house comfortably.


Middle class in the Bay Area is around 250-300k combined household income with no kids.

 

[Dragonfly Jones]

Id say single, 30k

30k is enough to get u a brownstone in camden NJ, philly, baltimore, chicago in the hood

If u live in the ghetto u are not middle class. 30k is poverty status in America bruh.

 

[Bernie Madoff]

30k is enough to get u a brownstone in camden NJ, philly, baltimore, chicago in the hood

If u live in the ghetto u are not middle class. 30k is poverty status in America bruh.

Thats why middle class have roommates in the city..

 

[hashmander]

depends on where you're single making that 30k. in florida, yeah. in nyc, fukk no. if you need a roommate you aren't middle class. i think a small part of this ever growing wealth gap is people having a mistaken impression of their class status.

 

[Dragonfly Jones]

. if you need a roommate you aren't middle class.

yup