You Need To Make $688,000 Annually To Be A One-Percenter in D.C.

[Anonymous]

What do we think?

Article from DCist: http://dcist.com/2014/09/you_need_to_make_688000_annually_to.php

[Anonymous]

Yeah middle class is like 250 to 600k

[Anonymous]

Cool story, bro. What do you think?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Cool story, bro. What do you think?

Obama thinks $80K is middle class.

[Anonymous]

Well, I'm out.

[Anonymous]

That settles that then. Lol

[Anonymous]

I thought so considering that folks at $250K were not feeling but so rich ...

[Anonymous]

There are a lot of fat cats sucking (in)directly off the taxpayers teets.

[Anonymous]

I bet if you hacked off much of NE and all of SE, that number would be much higher.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I bet if you hacked off much of NE and all of SE, that number would be much higher.

+1. This number seems about right, but it's pretty depressing too.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I bet if you hacked off much of NE and all of SE, that number would be much higher.

SE includes Capitol Hill, FYI.

[Anonymous]

That's DC proper. MD and VA are $435/433k respectively. I'd say half my neighborhood in Bethesda hits that number.