{"id":92510,"date":"2025-07-25T22:36:13","date_gmt":"2025-07-25T22:36:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/92510\/"},"modified":"2025-07-25T22:36:13","modified_gmt":"2025-07-25T22:36:13","slug":"heres-how-much-money-is-needed-to-be-considered-middle-class-in-maryland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/92510\/","title":{"rendered":"Here\u2019s how much money is needed to be considered middle class in Maryland"},"content":{"rendered":"

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BETHESDA, Md.<\/strong> – How much money does it take for a household to be considered middle class? A new study shows that the bar is pretty high if you live in Maryland.\u00a0<\/p>\n

By the numbers:<\/p>\n

GOBankingRates found that Marylanders required the most money \u2013 a median household income of $101,652\u00a0 \u2013 to be considered middle class.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The lowest end of middle class income, $67,768, was also the highest of all 50 states. And on the other end of the spectrum, $203,304 is the highest end of middle class income in Maryland.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The personal finance site analyzed data from the 2023 American Community Survey as conducted by the U.S. Census Bureau, then found the middle class income for each state.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The company\u00a0followed the Pew Research Center\u2019s definition of middle-class income<\/a> \u2014 “two-thirds to double the\u00a0U.S. median household income<\/a>.”<\/p>\n

See the full report here.\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n

Which states require the most money to be lower class?\u00a0 <\/p>\n

Big picture view:<\/p>\n

Other states that topped the list included New Jersey, Massachusetts, Hawaii, California, New Hampshire, Washington and Connecticut.<\/p>\n

The Source:<\/b> This story includes information from a study by GOBanking Rates.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Maryland<\/a>News<\/a>Money<\/a>Top Stories<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BETHESDA, Md. – How much money does it take for a household to be considered middle class? A…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":92511,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[64,79,30298,6459,50,52,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-92510","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-economy","8":"tag-business","9":"tag-economy","10":"tag-md","11":"tag-money","12":"tag-news","13":"tag-top-stories","14":"tag-united-states","15":"tag-unitedstates","16":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114916267352652801","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92510","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=92510"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92510\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/92511"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=92510"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=92510"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=92510"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}