|I don't even make half that and I have six figures in savings. A $250k/year DINK couple should most definitely have very much to their name. Well if you make

|I don't even make half that and I have six figures in savings. A $250k/year DINK couple should most definitely have very much to their name. Well if you make close to half of that, then you basically make that as single income... The parent comment assumed bother parters were engineers making roughly the same amount. Bottom line, is the difference between upper and middle class is where the money comes from. Doctors are upper-middle class until they have enough wealth (not income) to live of their investments alone. That is, they have similar money worries to other middle class people. Not necessarily stuff like "can I afford rent" (which would be lower class), but rather "what happens if I get injured and can no longer work?"