• Maggoty@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    It’s worse than the headline says. The study set 71k as the average US income for a single person…

    Which is the official household number. The actual single income average is 50-60k.

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      1 year ago

      This still seems high to me, damn. In my town average household income is 30k lol. Even surrounding “nice” towns aren’t that much higher

      I guess there’s places where people must make so much money

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        1 year ago

        Oh that’s the fun part. Everyone discusses mean and median. Mode is in the 35-40 range last I tracked it down. (it wasn’t easy to find and I have my theories about why)