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rmorey on April 28, 2023 | parent | context | favorite | on: More Young Adults Are Living Paycheck to Paycheck ...

Only like 4% of Americans are making that much anyway - median income for 25-34 year olds is ~70-80k

Jtsummers on April 28, 2023 [–]

> median income for 25-34 year olds is ~70-80k

https://www.nasdaq.com/articles/the-average-salary-by-age-in...

No, it's not $70-80k. Median in that age range is $52k (numbers are from 2022 Q3).

rmorey on April 28, 2023 | [–]

My bad, I was looking at 2021 numbers. Makes my point all the more

Jtsummers on April 28, 2023 | | [–]

I think we may be finding different numbers. Yours might be the household earnings, mine was individual earner numbers.

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