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Less than half of americans make more than $30k / year these days. http://dailycaller.com/2015/10/25/1-in-2-working-americans-make-less-than-30000-a-year/ http

• saiya-jin 10y ago
  household income != individual salary in many, if not most of the cases.
  • Turing_Machine 10y ago
    Right. Households often have multiple incomes. That doesn't help the OP's point, though, since people in Ohio are more likely to live in a multi-income household than people in California. If you look at per capita income instead of household, Ohio gives $135,500/$26,937 ~= 5, and California gives $405,000/$30,441 = 13 By that standard, California is 2.6 times more expensive instead of only 2.