Reply #153: This is a very interesting thread because of posts like this.

[BurtWorm]

I notice that most DUers who put themselves in the $100,000 household range are talking of dual-income families--or potentially dual-income families. And it's very interesting to note that six-figure households are not doing as well as Americans were generally doing in the 1990s.

We too are dual income, living in NYC. She's a social worker and I'm an editor, so we don't even break $100,000 together; but we don't own a car and we live in a rent stabilized apt--and we're struggling, mainly because of child care, which eats nearly a quarter of our combined monthly income. We're well in the top 20-25% of household incomes, according to the census data JanMichael posted above, but we oftentimes scrape by to get to the next paycheck.