8 Ways to Tell If You're in the Middle Class

8 Ways to Tell If You're in the Middle Class

Comments: We are in the permanent vacation mode (retired). On cars, one can buy a nice Chevrolet Impala for $ 25,000. (as an aside our cars are '07 Buick with 98K miles and '02 S-10 with 33K. We buy new and keep 'em). Image source.

What is "Middle Class"?

How much you have to earn to be considered middle class in every US state

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"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 that Pew used in their analysis, 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.

Comment: See article for full chart.