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SF Leads List Of Cities Where Top Earners Make The Most Money
The Top 3 cities nationwide are all right here in the Bay Area.
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SAN FRANCISCO, CA — Are you one of the top earners in San Francisco? A new study by SmartAsset on the income needed to be among the top earners in America's largest cities put three Bay Area cities in the top spots:
- San Francisco
- Fremont
- San Jose
In this study, SmartAsset considered the 100 largest cities in the U.S. and ranked cities according to the income needed to be in the top 20-percent of working households.
In San Francisco, $250,000 is needed to be in the upper echelon. In Fremont it's $243,080, and in San Jose it's $219,023.
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The study noted that even the median household income in San Francisco is more than $112,000 a year.
Rounding out the top 5 cities for high earners are Arlington, Virginia and Seattle.
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Are you curious about the bottom 5? In Detroit you'd need to earn just $65,603 to be in the top 20-percent of earners. Next comes Cleveland, Toledo, Hialeah, Florida, and Newark, NJ.
All data for SmartAssets report comes from the Census Bureau's 1-year American Community Survey.
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