The salary a single person needs to live comfortably in every U.S. state
WIBC 9AM-Noon Podcast
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🗓️ 17 April 2024
⏱️ 11 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Pat Sullivan here to remind you to stop putting screens on your gutters. |
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| 0:15.0 | How much do you need to live comfortably in the great state of Indiana. |
| 0:23.0 | Well, that is subjective, but the people at MIT |
| 0:26.4 | say they've got it figured out for you. |
| 0:28.4 | It is 935 with Kendall and Casey on 93 W IBC, |
| 0:32.1 | so they actually define the word comfortable which is interesting |
| 0:35.3 | because that is typically a subjective term but they say if you define it as |
| 0:40.8 | having a monthly income needed to cover the 50 30 20 budget |
| 0:44.4 | which means 50% of your earnings go to necessities like housing and utility costs |
| 0:49.8 | 30% go to your discretionary spending and then 20% goes to savings and |
| 0:55.4 | investments they have the number of what you need to live comfortable here in |
| 0:59.4 | Indiana. |
| 1:00.4 | All right let's do this with a disclaimer too. I would bet a sizable portion of the |
| 1:04.2 | populace goes nowhere near saving 20% of their paycheck every month. |
| 1:09.1 | Well, not now. Not currently. I would say no. I would imagine that's a minute amount of while this is and this is certainly a good I think I think they're being fair. I'm not saying they're being unfair and I think this is a good way to kind of go about it |
| 1:24.1 | but I would imagine the average person saves nowhere near 20% of their their paycheck. |
| 1:30.4 | All right so the number to me for Indiana was staggering. |
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