Want to Take the Washington Post’s Middle Class Test?

Photo credit: Larry, CC BY 2.0.

Today in “why not, it only takes 30 seconds,” we go to the Washington Post:

There’s a prolonged pause when I ask Lyft driver Gaby Osegueda if her family is middle class. Her smile fades as she thinks about it for a while.

“Yeah, I think so. I don’t even know what the middle class is anymore,” says Osegueda, who with her husband earns nearly $100,000 a year in the San Francisco area.

WaPo reporter Heather Long interlaces Gaby Osegueda’s story with a look at how “middle-class incomes” differ in various locations across the United States. This in itself is nothing new; part of the reason I’m moving is to go from a high cost-of-living area to a medium cost-of-living area.

However, the article includes a “middle class calculator” where you can input your income and your county to learn whether you are, in fact, middle class. (In your area.)

I am middle class in both Seattle and Cedar Rapids, though I’m much closer to the middle of the middle class in Iowa.

What about you?

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