Middle-class life in the United States has always been defined less by a single number and more by a bundle of expectations: a stable home, a reliable car, some savings, and a shot at college for the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Dennis Hallinan / Getty Images In 1980 middle-class families lived in a world of Atari consoles, rotary phones and station wagons ...

Upper-middle-class status has always been a moving target, but in 2025 the bar has shifted higher and become more dependent on where you live. A salary that once felt aspirational can now be barely ...

Ali Hussain has a background that consists of a career in finance with large financial institutions and in journalism covering business. CG Tan / Getty Images If your household income was between ...

GOBankingRates referred to the Pew Research Center’s definition of middle class as two-thirds to double the median household income to determine the cities where a six-figure income is considered ...

There’s good news for Americans who don’t yet earn a six-figure income and want to join the upper-middle class. The lowest end of upper-middle class income is under $95,000 in seven of the nation’s ...

Economic commentary, published Tuesday by veteran Wall Street strategist David Rosenberg, highlights the “historic divide between household assessments of the economy, labor income and personal income ...

There's a lot of variation within each group. The top 5% of earners, for example, bring in $295,000 or more per year. That's nearly 10x what someone in the lowest quintile earns annually. It's also ...

"The middle class is shrinking" might be the assertion of the decade. Progressives and populists alike use it to justify nearly all government interventions, from tariffs to minimum-wage hikes to ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. stephanie phillips / Getty Images For 10 years, my wife and daughter and I lived overseas. We lived an upper-middle class ...

In 1980 middle-class families lived in a world of Atari consoles, rotary phones and station wagons with wood paneling. The median U.S. household income was $21,020, enough to buy a modest home, a ...

Discover more original studies and surveys in the GOBankingRates original research center. Methodology: For this piece, GOBankingRates found the upper-middle class income ranges for the largest 50 U.S ...