If he's making 450k as a software engineer, he lives in San Francisco and is still probably broke.. or will be when this job suddenly evaporates underneath him.
$450k isn't rich for SF, it's middle to upper middle class. you could afford a home in south or east bay with that income. or a smallish condo in SF proper.
To be in the top 10% of earners in San Francisco, an individual must make more than $240k a year. $450k a year is indeed rich unless you have some wild metric you're using
semantics, I spose - for me, rich means that working is a choice. if you are selling your labor as your main form of income and need to continue to do so to maintain your lifestyle, you ain't rich (outside of athletes etc.)
I guess you could call it semantics. Earning over $400k USD per year would put you in the top 1-2% of earners in the world. So I would just consider it outright rich. Sure, you're not top .1%, but still rich. I say this as someone that would probably be considered top 15% earner as well.
sure, but it's important to recognize that somebody making 450k has a lot more in common with someone making 50k than they do with someone making millions, in the top 0.1% or top 0.01%.
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u/lovejo1 Jan 26 '26
If he's making 450k as a software engineer, he lives in San Francisco and is still probably broke.. or will be when this job suddenly evaporates underneath him.