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- From: rick.sanchez@EBay.Sun.COM (Rick Sanchez)
- Newsgroups: misc.consumers
- Subject: Middle-class salary range
- Message-ID: <l70r20INNsff@male.EBay.Sun.COM>
- Date: 24 Jul 92 20:46:56 GMT
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- Reply-To: rick.sanchez@EBay.Sun.COM (Rick Sanchez)
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- joni@cbnewsf.cb.att.com (joni.dunlap) writes...
- >>...
- >>...I think that the
- >>poverity level is somewhere around $19,000 for a family of four and that
- >>would be classified as upper lower class.
- >>I remember back in 1981 when I made $8,500 in a year working full time that
- >>that was considered poverity level. Thank God my salary has changed over the
- >>years.
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- The average price of house here in the Bay Area is around $250K.
- Assuming you qualify with an annual income of $50K and a 20%
- downpayment. After deducting payments for mortgage,property tax,
- insurance, utilities and food, your status drops to below
- poverty level.
-