125,000.00 or more.
In the south or midwest.
Northeast? 150 to 200K.
California, WA or OR coast? 500,000.00
That’s a good breakdown of it. Real Estate and state taxation , operation fees matter a lot too.
“Northeast? 150 to 200K.”
Nonsense-—my kids are in that range and they are hardly UPPER middle class.
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Specifically COASTAL CA, OR and WA. $250k can get you middle class there, but you may be renting forever. All three are huge states and you can live cheaply in the interior.
And, that’s obviously with both adults working.
For me, I have a family of 6 people, 7 animals. (Wife, 3 kids, dad, dogs/cats, and myself). So, my salary, at less than 100,000, puts me at not in the upper middle class.
And to think, my dad making 2/3rds what I make now was upper middle class in the early/mid 80’s.
Purchasing power has eroded and is almost unbelievably low.
Don’t know about other parts of the country, but I would say in the greater NY metro area (including Long Island and the upper 1/2 of NJ) you’d need AT LEAST $600,000 per year in income to be considered “upper middle class” if you had any more than one child.