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300k is a huge amount of money if you have no dependents. Otherwise it's comfortably middle class, but that's it.
by EPWN3D 18d ago
300k is a huge amount of money if you have no dependents. Otherwise it's comfortably middle class, but that's it.
- Ancapistani 18d agoEntry-level rich here in the South.
- davkan 18d ago300k would put you in the top 5% of households and 3-4x the median household, let alone single earners. You are absolutely beyond “comfortably middle class” with that salary.
- isubkhankulov 17d agoWhere? Not in the Bay Area. $300k is middle class there.
- davkan 17d agoI would bet that’s still top 5% for individual earners in the Bay Area. Do you think 300k is anywhere near average?
- aprilthird2021 17d agoIt's double the median income of the most expensive cities in the bay area for a 4 person household
- aprilthird2021 17d ago$300k HHI is 200% of the SF median income for a 4 person household in 2026: https://media.api.sf.gov/documents/2026_AMI-IncomeLimits-HMFA.pdf https://media.api.sf.gov/documents/2026_AMI-IncomeLimits-HMF... And we have not included the spouse's income at all (assuming with kids there is a spousal income) Unless you don't define middle class as the percentile between 25 and 75, then it's markedly above middle class. Incomes in SF are skewed though because housing costs vary wildly. Some people are below the median income but have rent control or property tax so low that they pay basically nothing for housing.