Wednesday, May 4, 2016

And A $15/Hour Isn't Even Close To Cutting It

You'll Need to Make a Lot More Money to Live "Comfortably" in L.A.

In Los Angeles, that figure is $74,371 for household income.

That sounds reasonable until you realize that the individual median income for L.A. County is $28,555. The median household income is $53,482.

More than one in 10 Angelenos lives in poverty, the U.S. Census says. That number could be higher if we considered our high cost of living when calculating poverty data, Census officials have said.

(LAWeekly.com)

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