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Yavin4

(37,182 posts) Tue Jul 10, 2012, 02:51 PM Jul 2012

Attention: Most NYC Dwellers Make Far Less Than $250,000 A Year [View all]

Half make less than $50,000 a year. So, please stop with the meme that if you make $250,000 in NYC, then you are poor. I've lived in Manhattan for 16 years, and I didn't even top $100,000 until year 14, and I'm doing just fine thank you. Hardly any of my colleagues make even close to $200,000 a year.

If you'e living in NYC, and you make $250,000 a year, you are doing extremely well, and you are NOT middle class. You are upper class.

That is all. Carry on.

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Attention: Most NYC Dwellers Make Far Less Than $250,000 A Year [View all] Yavin4 Jul 2012 OP

Tell Senator Schumer??? elleng Jul 2012 #1

Thank you! JackRiddler Jul 2012 #2

More than one idiot trying that recently NNN0LHI Jul 2012 #3

Where do you live in Manhattan? The median income in zip 10128 (Up E Side) is $205,379/yr. leveymg Jul 2012 #4

West Village, NYC n/t Yavin4 Jul 2012 #8

You realize there are probably over 100s of zip codes for NYC LynneSin Jul 2012 #10

that zip code represents about one half of one percent of NYC's population fishwax Jul 2012 #11

ROFL progressoid Jul 2012 #12

let's balance this with Manhattan's Chinatown .... marasinghe Jul 2012 #23

I think I just hit 250k now Lawlbringer Jul 2012 #5

Is it fair to just count Manhatten? HooptieWagon Jul 2012 #6

Additionally if you live in NYC your deductions are likely higher, and therefore the net income Lionessa Jul 2012 #7

If you live in NYC, you have to pay substantial state and CITY income taxes. pnwmom Jul 2012 #14

Which effectively lowers their net income so only those with considerably higher than $250K will be Lionessa Jul 2012 #15

Is the law referring to net income or gross income? pnwmom Jul 2012 #16

Taxable income, not gross, ie the number after deductions. Lionessa Jul 2012 #17

So is the law referring to taxable income only? I didn't realize that. n/t pnwmom Jul 2012 #18

YES! Dozens of posts about this here and on DU2 over the past two years, and yet even here Lionessa Jul 2012 #19

Thanks for clearing that up. This may be part of why pnwmom Jul 2012 #22

NYC is a big city so alot of that depends on which borough or which neighborhood too LynneSin Jul 2012 #9

Who said you're poor if you make less than $250K? pnwmom Jul 2012 #13

Most NYC Dwellers have a lifestyle that would make me jump off something. Sen. Walter Sobchak Jul 2012 #20

If you have been in Manhattan 16 years, Lucky Luciano Jul 2012 #21

One Word: Roommates Yavin4 Jul 2012 #24

That is an ultra-sacrifice. Lucky Luciano Jul 2012 #25

and yet more than half the households in nyc make under $60K. HiPointDem Jul 2012 #28

It's about time someone said that. AJTheMan Jul 2012 #26

that's who butters his bread... choie Jul 2012 #27