<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" standalone="yes"?><rss version="2.0" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>Personal-Finance on Duly Noted</title><link>https://noted.jsrowe.com/tags/personal-finance/</link><description>Recent content in Personal-Finance on Duly Noted</description><generator>Hugo</generator><language>en-us</language><lastBuildDate>Sun, 30 Mar 2025 03:16:36 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://noted.jsrowe.com/tags/personal-finance/feed.xml" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"/><item><title>Cost of living 200k</title><link>https://noted.jsrowe.com/cost-of-living-200k/</link><pubDate>Sun, 30 Mar 2025 03:16:36 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://noted.jsrowe.com/cost-of-living-200k/</guid><description>&lt;blockquote&gt;
&lt;p&gt;But in every single state in America, a $100,000 salary is no longer enough to be considered “upper-class”—and families with six-figure incomes are even struggling to get by.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Growing up in the 90s a six figure job was like the epitome of &amp;lsquo;made it&amp;rsquo;. And now it barely covers the bills, and median income is even lower.&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;&lt;sub&gt;Quote Citation: &lt;cite&gt;EMMA BURLEIGH, &amp;ldquo;People making six-figure salaries used to be considered rich—now households earning nearly $200,000 a year aren’t even considered upper-class in some U.S. states&amp;rdquo;, March 24, 2025, 3:57 PM UTC, &lt;a href="https://fortune.com/2025/03/24/us-middle-class-threshold-household-income-six-figures-inflation-salary-deflation/"&gt;&lt;a href="https://fortune.com/2025/03/24/us-middle-class-threshold-household-income-six-figures-inflation-salary-deflation/"&gt;https://fortune.com/2025/03/24/us-middle-class-threshold-household-income-six-figures-inflation-salary-deflation/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/cite&gt;&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description></item></channel></rss>