Social classes go way back to at least the Middle Ages — but classes such as the “lower class” and the “lower middle class” ...

Does your annual salary place you among the lower-middle class? It depends on the state you live in, according to GOBankingRates data. The minimum income threshold for the lower-middle class in ...

Utah, Idaho, and Alaska had the highest share of residents in the middle class. Meanwhile, New York, Massachusetts, and Montana had the highest percentages of lower-class residents. These three ...

Methodology: For this study, GOBankingRates analyzed each U.S. state to find the states where a six-figure income is considered lower-middle class. The middle class is defined by Pew Research as ...

Methodology: To generate the income tax for every state, GOBankingRates first found lower middle class median income based on 2023 American Community Survey median household figures. Income tax ...

(And middle class median income outpaced that among lower-income households by another six percentage points.) "The state of the American middle class is at the heart of the economic platforms of ...