Also, as far as what a typical household making near that much might look like: my personal situation is that I'm a senior software engineer, whose total comp i

Also, as far as what a typical household making near that much might look like: my personal situation is that I'm a senior software engineer, whose total comp is nothing really exceptional. I'm married to a nurse. Our household income is around 500k. You can easily imagine ways to tweak our careers to put us into the 1% range. Even as is, we have an attainable 5 year plan to buy a home at the lower end of the listed range without being stupid.