Just a quick aside: currently the mean individual income for a US college grad is about $77,000. If you have a kid, that’s a bit lower, and these are 2016 figures, which makes them a bit higher. Still, I think upper middle class implies higher earning than the mean college grad.
I think of ‘upper middle class’ as jobs like doctor, finance, corporate management. The means here are quite a bit higher e.g. the mean income of doctors in the US is over $200k.
Just a quick aside: currently the mean individual income for a US college grad is about $77,000. If you have a kid, that’s a bit lower, and these are 2016 figures, which makes them a bit higher. Still, I think upper middle class implies higher earning than the mean college grad.
See footnote 2 here: https://80000hours.org/career-guide/job-satisfaction/
I think of ‘upper middle class’ as jobs like doctor, finance, corporate management. The means here are quite a bit higher e.g. the mean income of doctors in the US is over $200k.
In my experience, what the Brits humbly call “upper middle class” is what Aussies would call upper class.