re: What do you consider middle class?

Middle class is prob household income of $150,000 - $250,000.

I’d think it’d be pretty hard to make ends meet on less than $150,000/year.

Less than $100,000 would prob be the poverty line.

I got a huge tax cut, I get a raise every summer, deductibles are high but constant. Upper middle class based on info here.

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What would you say is a middle class house hold income ?

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45-85k or so

that's about the 43-85th percentiles

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Both me and the ol lady each make 6 figure salaries, no children, in S.F. and I feel we are hardly considered 'middle class'

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Move?

There is a mix of trolling in this thread and those married to someone with a serious spending problem. The grocery thread was evidence of that. You had dudes claiming they spent north of $500 in groceries a week.

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Less than $100,000 would prob be the poverty line.

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Sounds like we need to raise welfare benefits to 100k a year.

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The only reason the water is muddied is because a shite ton of this board was raised upper class and was told it was middle class, so their view is warped. People typically have no clue how many people are making it on far, far less than they are.

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yeah the disassociation from the bottom...hell, half of the population has really skewed the perceptions of posters

there was data posted earlier in this thread that's different than the data i found, but the median income is around 55k or so

that means HALF the population has a household income sub-55k

In metro areas like Atlanta, Charlotte, Nashville, Tampa, Houston I would say middle class is $60k-$200k, with upper middle class in the $150k-$200k range.

In smaller/less wealthy towns it is probably $50k-$150k, with upper middle class in the $100k-$150k range.

And a continuum between those two for places like Columbia, SC or Tuscaloosa, Al.

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that means HALF the population has a household income sub-55k

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project and trailer park dwellers skew the mean