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Originally Posted by llwhiteoutll
It would be really interesting to see how those numbers change when you filter by households that are comprised of a single person versus those with multiple people. I would assume that the vast majority of single person households are represented in the under $70,000 category and it would be single digits in the over $150,000 category.
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Best I saw was median total income of one-person households in 2015 was $52,163. The average total income of one-person households in 2015 was $70,974. So yeah, barely half the single earning households make over $50,000. But then you need to factor in age. These numbers would include students working part time and single-person retirees.
But yes, a huge difference in perception when you realize almost half of all single-person households are bringing in less than $50,000 pre-tax. And, for what it's worth, this one-person household category includes 130,000 of Calgary Economic region's population.