{"id":1015331,"date":"2026-08-21T17:31:13","date_gmt":"2026-08-21T17:31:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/1015331\/"},"modified":"2026-08-21T17:31:13","modified_gmt":"2026-08-21T17:31:13","slug":"11-dallas-fort-worth-companies-make-new-inc-5000-list","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/1015331\/","title":{"rendered":"11 Dallas-Fort Worth companies make new Inc. 5000 list"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A new national <a href=\"https:\/\/smartasset.com\/data-studies\/heres-the-salary-it-takes-to-live-comfortably-in-each-u-s-state-in-2026\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">report<\/a> looking at the income it takes to live comfortably in each of the 50 states has revealed Texans need to earn slightly less now than a year ago. <\/p>\n<p>SmartAsset analyzed what a single individual, as well as family of four, must earn to cover minimum basic needs adjusted using the <a href=\"https:\/\/smartasset.com\/checking-account\/50-30-20-budget-plan-and-how-to-use-it\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">50\/30\/20 budgeting rule<\/a>. The resulting estimate represents the annual, pre-tax income needed to live comfortably in every U.S. state.<\/p>\n<p>A single, full-time worker needs to make $90,563 to live comfortably in the Lone Star State, the report found, which is down a meager 0.2 percent from last year ($90,771).<\/p>\n<p>Under the 50\/30\/20 budgeting strategy, that means a single Texas earner would have $45,282 to spend on necessities like housing and utilities, $27,169 for discretionary spending, and $18,113 for emergencies or retirement savings.<\/p>\n<p>Texas ranked 34th nationally in SmartAsset&#8217;s list of states with the highest income needed for a single adult to live &#8220;in sustainable comfort&#8221; in 2026. Only five other states \u2014 Tennessee, Maryland, Louisiana, North Carolina, and Mississippi \u2014 saw a decline in the income needed to live comfortably this year.<\/p>\n<p>For a family of four to live comfortably in Texas, income requirements change significantly, according to the findings. To support a two-child household, a family needs $203,424 in combined total household income to be considered financially stable. This is down slightly from 2025, when SmartAsset reported a family of four in needed $204,922 to live comfortably in Texas.<\/p>\n<p>This is a comfortable lifestyle for a family of four in Texas, according to the report:<\/p>\n<ul class=\"ee-ul\">\n<li>$101,712 dedicated to necessities and living expenses<\/li>\n<li>$61,027 dedicated to discretionary spending<\/li>\n<li>$40,685 dedicated to emergencies, savings, or debt repayme<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>According to the report, a family of four now needs to make at least $200,000 to live comfortably in 40 U.S. states, a figure that is far out of reach for many American families.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;As housing, grocery, transportation and other essential costs pressure household budgets, earning a six-figure salary no longer guarantees financial comfort in much of the U.S.,&#8221; the report said. &#8220;A single adult now needs at least $80,000 a year to live comfortably in every state, while the threshold exceeds $100,000 in nearly half of states. For a family of four, the income needed to live comfortably is as much as $329,000.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Still, earning the minimum income to live comfortably in Texas doesn&#8217;t guarantee financial stability in the Lone Star State&#8217;s major cities. Earlier this year, SmartAsset determined single residents in <a href=\"https:\/\/fortworth.culturemap.com\/news\/city-life\/salary-live-comfortably-arlington-fw\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Fort Worth<\/a> need to make nearly $98,000 to qualify as financially stable, while families of four need more than $217,000.<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A new national report looking at the income it takes to live comfortably in each of the 50&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":1015332,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5138],"tags":[5229,64,85883,7371,7372,85879,358,3187,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":["post-1015331","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fort-worth","tag-america","tag-business","tag-fastest-growing-companies","tag-fort-worth","tag-fortworth","tag-inc-5000","tag-texas","tag-tx","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-unitedstates","tag-unitedstatesofamerica","tag-us","tag-usa"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/117134694043067871","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1015331","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1015331"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1015331\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1015332"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1015331"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1015331"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1015331"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}