Though terms like these can’t fully encapsulate people’s specific financial realities, they can be useful. The differences between how the lower middle class and upper middle class are living can ...

As a generational cohort, annual incomes among Gen X in the United States are all over the map, especially when compared to the older baby boomers or the younger generations of millennials and Gen Z.

Earning more than $110,000 in household income doesn't make you rich — but in most states, it means you're upper-middle class. Nationwide, upper-middle class households earn a median income between ...

The share of families classified as upper-middle class has jumped from 10% in 1979 to 31% in 2024, the report found. For the ...

Having money or being “upper class” is about much more than the money in your bank account. According to a study from the British Journal of Social Psychology, our socioeconomic status plays a role in ...

When more families cross into the upper middle class, that's a success. Don't let politicians sabotage upward mobility.

The good news is that Americans have never been richer. The bad news is that most of them don’t feel like it. There has been tremendous growth in income and wealth in the U.S. in the last half century ...

Rising costs could make these six once-attainable luxuries unaffordable for the upper middle class in five years—see which ...

Every election cycle, politicians focus on talking to the middle class. Clearly, that’s where most people live. But the ...

Hobbies reveal stark social divides, extending beyond income to differing views on time and investment. Upper-middle-class ...