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Yep. 100k a year in SF means asking the parents for money to buy a house. In Houston? You’re looking at some of the better suburbs. There’s Boston metro and rural Pennsylvania.
Here are average salaries for male, college-educated 25 to 29-year olds working full-time who report living alone. This is for city-propers/boroughs.
Interesting info, although median salaries are far more telling, in my view. Places like NYC, SF, Miami and Seattle are for sure going to be skewed by a small pool of very high-paying tech, real estate and finance positions.
Here are average salaries for male, college-educated 25 to 29-year olds working full-time who report living alone. This is for city-propers/boroughs.
Manhattan - $154,201
San Francisco - $141,669
Seattle - $127,281
Miami - $103,428
Brooklyn - $97,583
Washington, DC - $90,678
Chicago - $88,675
Boston - $84,167
Los Angeles - $81,652
San Diego - $79,985
Dallas - $78,632
Detroit - $78,129
Pittsburgh - $77,799
Charlotte - $77,761
Minneapolis - $74,285
Austin - $73,072
Houston - $72,524
Philadelphia - $70,372
Baltimore - $67,356
Denver - $67,002
Raleigh - $63,472
Atlanta - $52,837
Echoing Duderino, what are the medians?
The various housing assistance programs are based on percentages of the "area median income," which includes the suburbs of those cities. I'm pretty certain that in Philadelphia, the city median for a single person (the figure wouldn't be broken down by sex or education level) is lower than that in the suburbs.
As it stands, it appears that even a college-educated, young single male living alone doesn't make enough to "live comfortably" in Greater Philadelphia (see my post on this upthread), but it seems to me that this person drawing the average salary could indeed do so. They probably wouldn't live in one of the newest apartment buildings or office-residential conversions in Center City, but they might find a subdivided townhouse or condo in Wash West or even a roomier apartment in University City or some other outlying neighborhood.
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