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Americans say they need to earn $233,000 to feel financially secure, but their average salary is $75,000 (www.marketwatch.com)
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[–] cornbread@lemm.ee 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I always find articles like this very odd because the cost of living can be so drastically different in different areas of the US.

Like, this headline makes sense to me if they only interviewed people living in California or another state that is pretty expensive to live in.