<p>Dad: Bankruptcy Lawyer
Mom: Secretary at the firm my dad works at/ mother of five (lucky for her, she only has one left at home).</p>
<p>mom- works for church
dad- orthopaedic surgeon</p>
<p>Mom: used to be a CPA, but now is a stay at home mom
Dad: Writes computer programs for Kenworth. </p>
<p>you'd say we're comfortable. upper middle class, I guess.</p>
<p>All this comfortable/wealthy still is realitive. What's "comfortable" to someone whose parents are a CEO of a tech company and mom has a BS in math from UCLA is wealthy to me.</p>
<p>i agree, crypto86. it's extremely subjective ... i can't even tell what i am. having a ceo in the family does lean towards wealthy to me.</p>
<p>Doesn't mean it's a major company...</p>
<p>I think I read the top 10% make over $92,000 a year.</p>
<p>Personally I'm very surprised. I really thought it would be higher.</p>
<p>jpps1 -- good point. i thought it would be higher, too.</p>
<p>Hmm, I just found a more reliable site (right from the Congressional Budget Office). It compiles the AVERAGE income of various levels of income.</p>
<p>In 1995, the top 10% of household incomes (pretax) was an average of $188,000.</p>
<p>5% was $276,000.</p>
<p>1% was $719,000.</p>
<p>Those figures seem to make more sense.</p>
<p>Don't read much into titles. A cCEO in Silicon Valley can mean many, many things. Don't point fingers. Livermore is a middle class and lower middle class town.</p>
<p>We aren't that wealthy. I don't think I should post my dad's salary on here. We are upper middle class.</p>
<p>He's running a start-up (thus not a major corporation). It's going very well for its third year.</p>
<p>Oh and my mom has never worked in her life...so there is only one figure in the family making money</p>
<p>According to those facts though...we are atleast in the top 5%
Whatever...the fact that we have 4 kids to put through college soon with no financial aid is going to hurt</p>
<p>something interesting or whatever: 1% of americans control 40% of the wealth</p>
<p>my parents are immigrants and worked basically from nothing to not too shabby today :)
my dad: sr CPA at a firm
mom: RN, BSN > currently working to get her master's degree and become a Nurse Pracitioner (basically like a physician...NP's can prescribe drugs)</p>
<p>comfortable i guess. its such a relative term. you're always gonna be wealthy compared to some people and poor compared to others.</p>
<p>one thing that sucks about this "middle ground" is we're not rich enough to pay for a private college (~40k) straight out. but then again we're too "rich" to get any financial aid . and i'm not "smart" enough to get substantial merit-aid lol. well anyways, as a solution, i only applied to state schools (UC's!!) which to me, are just as awesome and more financially practical!</p>
<p>My mom is an ICU nurse and my dad is a safety engineer. According to the stats someone posted above, my family is in the top 10%. It's really not that much though, considering we live in New Jersey and sending my brothers and I to Catholic schools has been important to my parents, which means high tuition costs. It also means that putting three kids through college relatively close together (I'm a sophomore, one brother is a junior, the other is a college freshman) is not going to be fun for any of us.</p>
<p>My dad: professor at BU
My mom: full time mother</p>
<p>My parents have scrimped and saved their way up to upper-middle class. We have two full college tuitions, which is amazing considering that they came to this country with a combined amount of 1 scholarship, $10.00, and two suitcases of clothing.</p>
<p>my dad is a neurosurgeon
my mom is a mom
we r in the upper middle class..and only because my dad's side is loaded. but this is new zealand so if we all moved to the u.s, we'd proabably be average middle class.</p>
<p>Dad- Professor of Sociology (Gwynedd-Mercy College)
Mom- VERY part time social worker</p>
<p>With the stats I posted earlier, I think I probably end up in the 3-4% range. No real idea; I only have a rough picture of what my father makes in salary (he invests a lot also).</p>
<p>top 10%, but we are still in debt</p>
<p>thats 1995 data though so to adjust for inflation, 2005 would be somewhat higher i guess.</p>
<p>dad:small town osteopathic doctor
mom: organizes and runs my dad's office</p>
<p>we're comfortable, but putting 3 children through college will put a major dent in the family finances. Luckily, my parents invested in state university credits years ago to keep costs down.</p>
<p>I would guess that we are slightly below the top 10%</p>
<p>here is my definiton of the "hard to categorize" categories, </p>
<p>Wealthy-parents can pay for college out of pocket(100k), new cars every 2 years at the least, 6000 square foot home, parents supply all finances for kids</p>
<p>Comfortable-parents can pay half and need loans from banks, new cars every 5 years,3500 square foothome, kids have to help pay for their own stuff</p>
<p>Poor-kid may have to go to cc for finacial purposes,same cars as parents had when they were growing up, 2000 square foot home, kids grades suffer becuase they are working so much to support family that they can not focus on school work</p>