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Re:$250K a Year Is Not Middle Class by harryh on Monday December 28, 2015 @10:01PM (#10804918)
San Francisco incomes statistics are undoubtedly skewed by stock option cash-outs that are one time (or at least relatively rare) events. So if you have a 250k/yr salary you might not be in the top 5% for any given year, but I bet you're in the top 5% for, say, any given 5 year period.
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Re:$250K a Year Is Not Middle Class by tedmiston on Tuesday December 29, 2015 @12:26PM (#10807749)
Not to mention that the top 5% by salary have other forms of compensation not included in the analysis, like stock options.
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