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As someone who has lived in several cities throughout the US, I found this quote highly suspect.  DC to me has relatively low incomes- Government & non profit jobs don't pay well.  After living in NYC, SF, Dallas & Houston, the general population made WAY more money.  There is also a big difference between the district and Northern VA.  NOVA is separate from DC.  I only saw ONE publication that supports this claim- every other one was different. [/quote]

It's census data that looks at median household incomes by metro area (including NOVA). My guess is that your perception of the "general population" is skewed by the people you know. There may not be the same number of really high earning people in DC as in NYC, etc., but that's a small sliver of the population in every metro area. Government jobs *do* pay well compared to the average job in many metro areas, which are things like retail, warehousing, etc.

Here's some data on median household incomes by metro. DC is almost $100k, which is second to SF: [b]https://www.statista.com/statistics/234251/median-household-income-by-largest-metro-area-us/[/b][/quote]

you need to pay for that link[/quote]

Sorry, looks like it's paywalled on mobile. Here's the data straight from the census. DC has the highest median household income except for SF. Page 4/Table 2: https://www.census.gov/content/dam/Census/library/publications/2018/acs/acsbr17-01.pdf[/quote]

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