Which economic class do you belong to?

[Bandit3 the Worker]

I work.

And I am poor.

Therefore I am part of the working poor.

[AuH2O]

I don't work during the school year except gambling, which I'm good at. Necessities I charge to my parents (groceries, gas, etc.). Hey, if they're willing to pay I ain't gonna complain.

But they're not rich. Upper middle I guess. My dad would make a lot more money in the north but the cost of living would be a lot higher, not to mention the north sucks.

[??????????]

I don't work during the school year except gambling, which I'm good at. Necessities I charge to my parents (groceries, gas, etc.). Hey, if they're willing to pay I ain't gonna complain.

But they're not rich. Upper middle I guess. My dad would make a lot more money in the north but the cost of living would be a lot higher, not to mention the north sucks.

I loved that post...hahaha

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Since when is $7,001 not poor?

[Filuwaúrdjan]

Working Class

[bullmoose88]

We should get a breakdown by party/ideology.

[Platypus]

Upper Middle Class. I'm not sure the breakdown in the US, but basically here it is the most politically aware of all the groups, with the highest news consumption and most political interest, but it is the most under-represented group in parliament . In the US it's be the poor, I suppose, because you have to have money to be a federal politician over there :S.

BTW, That's using Aussie terms. Using the money scale you present, we'd be middle middle class. A lot of it is in the upbringing too, though.

[Nym90]

Lower Middle Class, though some of these are ridiculous. Someone making $7,000/year is NOT middle class, that is below the poverty line, in fact....

[Gustaf]

Since I'm a dependant, should I count my parent's combined income? And is this before or after tax (HUUUUGE difference here in Sweden )?

Don't think it will make much of a difference though...upper middle class

[Democratic Hawk]

I'd say working class (parents); however, I've only worked in the administrative public sector (i.e. Civil Service and local government), so I'd guess I'm lower middle

However, I'm not working at the moment since I'm a full-time carer for my terminally-ill paraplegic dad but I recently graduated in psychology and start counselling in April

Dave

[opebo]

here is the key:

Upper Class: you (or your parents) make over $150,000

Upper Middle Class: you (or your parents) make between $70,000 and $150,000

Middle Class: you (or your parents) make between $30,000 and $70,000

Lower Middle Class: you (or your parents) make between $7,000 and $30,000

Working Poor: you (or your parents) make up to $7,000

Personally I think the brackets could be racheted upwards a bit - certainly the working poor should include up to about $25,000 per year, at least.

My family is upper class by this definition - which merely takes into account income, but not its source.

[minionofmidas]

Nonworking poor.

[minionofmidas]

Seriously though...I'm partly dependent on both my parents, whose aggregate pre-tax income, what with the current low dollar and all, likely comes in in the upper half of Upper Middle Class. I've voted as such in the poll. (My own income, including the odd job plus what I get from my parents, would put me just above the Working Poor/Lower Middle Class divide.)
However, this is a very blunt weapon. For one, my parents are divorced, so it doesn't make much sense to lump their incomes together. Another thing, throughout most of their lives (when I was just a kid, for example) my parents both had very little income, and were in fact still partly dependent on my father's parents. As soon as they started to earn comfortably, they split up. As a result, they both got about a dollar laid away. For yet another thing, class is much more a question of values than of income.
My dad's Middle Class, perhaps Upper Middle Class. My mom, the first in her family to go to University, is decidedly Working Class, sort of Redneck even. Me, in Marxist phrase I'm probably a "Declassé Intellectual".

[DanielX]

On that scale, my parents just make the upper-middle class cut. About $80,000 a year combined income. If you can't figure it out, i'm a dependent high school student.

However, it differs vastly even in different parts of the country. In Montgomery County, MD, we're only middle class, things here are expensive, especially housing. If my parents were still earning $80,000 a year in rural Mississippi, they'd be very high upper-middle class, if not rich.

The difference is bigger the poorer the area. $7,000 a year, for instance, would be considered poor even in rural Mississippi, but it's upper-middle class or even rich in much of Africa. Even Canada, which  is almost as wealthy as the US, isn't quite there. 

[12th Doctor]

mid-middle class

[Frodo]

here is the key:

Upper Class: you (or your parents) make over $150,000

Upper Middle Class: you (or your parents) make between $70,000 and $150,000

Middle Class: you (or your parents) make between $30,000 and $70,000

Lower Middle Class: you (or your parents) make between $7,000 and $30,000

Working Poor: you (or your parents) make up to $7,000

Personally I think the brackets could be racheted upwards a bit - certainly the working poor should include up to about $25,000 per year, at least.

look, 40 people have already voted in this poll based on the info i provided, and which you quote -i cannot change it now.  the way i defined 'working poor' was those who fit into the 10% income tax bracket -for single earners, they would earn up to (or around) $7,000; for married joint earners, they earn around $14,000.  that's the highest it goes.  remember, i obtained these figures from the link i provided in the first post on this thread.  i invite you to check it out, and to see if you can make a better poll than i have based on the source i drew it from.  i did the best i could to simplify the info so it could fit into this poll and at least look coherent. 
or you could always find another source. 

speaking of which, you could also try to incorporate partisan differences in the poll (as another poster suggested).     

[12th Doctor]

here is the key:

Upper Class: you (or your parents) make over $150,000

Upper Middle Class: you (or your parents) make between $70,000 and $150,000

Middle Class: you (or your parents) make between $30,000 and $70,000

Lower Middle Class: you (or your parents) make between $7,000 and $30,000

Working Poor: you (or your parents) make up to $7,000

Personally I think the brackets could be racheted upwards a bit - certainly the working poor should include up to about $25,000 per year, at least.

My family is upper class by this definition - which merely takes into account income, but not its source.

Yeah, because my family was absolutly destitute when my step-dad was making $25,000 a year.  [sarcasm]

Hell, compared to when he was making only $18,000 a year, we were filthy rich.

[JohnFKennedy]

By those rankings we are Upper-Middle Class. Switch the numbers to pounds and we are middle class which is probably more accurate for us.

[Jake]

I'm just guessing but:

Upper Class: 200K and over

Upper Middle: 80-200K

Middle Class: 40-80K

Lower Middle: 15-40K

Working (or not) Poor: 15K and less

[dazzleman]

Based upon your definitions, I am upper class.

However, the standard of living delivered by a certain income differs depending on the section of the country lived in.

I live in a very expensive area, and do not consider myself upper class by the standards of my area.  I consider myself upper middle class.

I was raised on the lower end of the upper middle class, and now I think I am at the upper end of the upper middle class.

I don't consider myself wealthy because my definition of wealthy is that your money works for you, rather than you working for your money.  I define wealth based upon assets rather than income.  I don't have enough wealth to stop working anytime soon, though I could probably stop working in about 12-15 years and live comfortably for the rest of my life if I continue on my present path.

[Julien]

Lower middle class. I think the bar should be raised, a person making 8000 USD is not lower middle class, they are poor.

[Josh/Devilman88]

My dad makes like 75,000 a year and my mom makes about 50,000 a years soo....125,000 a year..

[phk]

I'm Lower Middle Class, comparative to California.

But were about as well-off on a per person as Middle Class.

Me + mom, easily on 45k per year.

[Platypus]

Due to the weak US dollar, my amily has moved into upper class on Frodo's parameters

[Willy Woz]

Middle class.