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This is so laughable. The median salary in NYC is $50,000 per household. This includes tons of people who work in Manhattan (I've met more people who work in Ma
by cm2012 13y ago
This is so laughable. The median salary in NYC is $50,000 per household. This includes tons of people who work in Manhattan (I've met more people who work in Manhattan and live in other boroughs than otherwise - the daily commute numbers back that up.) As another poster mentioned, even just Manhattanites make $70,000 a year for the household. I personally know many people living in Manhattan making far less.
$150k is most definitely upper middle class. I grew up in Queens my whole life and until I started working professionally, never met someone who made more than $150,000 a year.
- humanrebar 13y agoSure, upper middle class. What's wrong with a CEO making upper middle class wages? The point is it's respectable wages for a professional, but hardly as high-on-the-hog as $150k in Kansas City.
- stephencanon 13y agoIn the context of discussing a company that lets employees work remotely, it is precisely as high-on-the-hog as $150k in KC. Remote employees in NYC choose to live there, because they think it’s a good tradeoff. If employees A and B both make $150k in Kansas City, but A cooks all his meals and B goes out to eat all the time, that doesn’t make A high-on-the-hog and B middle class; it just means that they value different things. Ditto for remote workers who choose to live in NYC.