Reply #22: A low six figure salary is the MINIMUM for calling oneself middle class [View All]

[Warpy]

At $100K, you will be able to hire the au pair and lawn service, but you won't, just in case the rug rat grows up and wants to be a doctor or lawyer.

At $200K, you will be able to afford the au pair and lawn service, but you'll still feel strapped when you think of the rug rat going to a brand name college.

At $300K, you may have hired the lawn service, but let's face it, Yale aint gettin any cheaper.

At $500K, you are comfortable and can supply your needs now and in the foreseeable future, but gawd, it would be really nice to have a place up in the mountains that isn't a shack.

At $1M, you've arrived to the point that your vacation house has all the amenities your suburban house does, right down to the granite countertops, but you're starting to catch glimpses of the super rich and you realize you're still small potatoes and you'd be sneered at if you went to Manassas Airport to watch the private jets arrive and depart.

And that's where the middle class is right now, folks.

Didn't know you were poor, did you?