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- From: carl@Cayman.COM (Carl Heinzl)
- Newsgroups: misc.consumers
- Subject: Re: $$$ for middle class
- Message-ID: <CARL.92Jul21074335@atlantis.Cayman.COM>
- Date: 21 Jul 92 11:43:35 GMT
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- In-reply-to: anon@no.where's message of 20 Jul 92 19:30:59 GMT
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- >Middle class: single return under $110K
- > joint return under $150K
-
- >Any opinions?
-
- Way too high. A month or two ago there was a histogram of salary
- ranges throughout the country (i.e. it included a LARGE sample).
-
- Families with over 105k were in the TOP 5%. I'd hardly call the top
- 5% middle class. As I remember it, the median and the mean were BOTH
- in the 30k range. You've gotta remember when you're typing on that
- computer that you probably have a job that pays WELL above the
- national average.
-
- I'd say the "middle class" would probably be the middle "third" of the
- salary sample which would make the range from somewhere in the mid 20s
- up to the 80's (which I had saved that article now). Yea, I know,
- that's a large range, but in some parts of the county you can live on
- 20k *almost* as good as you can on 80k in the expensive areas (perhaps
- (?) better in some cases).
-
- -Carl-
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