9 Ways to Know if You're Middle Class

[ehowton]

You make between $40,000 and $100,000 a year. And forget about President Barack Obama and Mitt Romney defining middle class as up to $250,000, as they did in their presidential campaigns. That's just not realistic.

Comments

[missus-emm.livejournal.com]

It's weird, I put $40K into my currency converter and agree that, in London, that would be the start of middle class. Anything below that, especially for a single income family, would definitely not be middle class.

I didn't even get to plugging in your upper income limits because I saw that it would be R429K in South Africa. That is a lot of money. I'd say the majority of people in South Africa earn less than R50K. (Two notes: we were comfortably lower-middle class and the cost of living is not that much lower, especially in cities).

I think this is why discussions about class, earnings and the earnings gap are important. We need to live in a society that cares about whether 90% of our population lives below the breadline.

[ehowton.livejournal.com]

You comment made me think of Hans Rosling's short TED talk on Global Population (http://www.ted.com/talks/hans_rosling_on_global_population_growth.html) and how it can reigned in through closing that gap.