That makes a certain degree of logical sense, but doesn't really pan out in practice. According to the US Census Bureau, the median household income for New Yor

That makes a certain degree of logical sense, but doesn't really pan out in practice. According to the US Census Bureau, the median household income for New York City (all 5 boroughs) was $67,997 in 2021. This is actually less than the New York state median income of $74,314. By demographic breakdown, married-couples families with children do fare better: median income $106,000. Families fall somewhere in the middle, at $80,220. Non-family households are worst off, at $52,862 (probably not coincidentally, a figure that is roughly half the median income of a married couple family).[0] All this to say that cities are great hubs of productivity, but the resulting output is not necessarily evenly distributed. "Pay more per capita" isn't really the figure you should look at when actual income figures are out there. [0] https://data.census.gov/profile?g=160XX00US3651000#income-and-poverty https://data.census.gov/profile?g=160XX00US3651000#income-an...