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Originally Posted by Oling_Roachinen
Oil Stain, you can keep saying it, but the stats show that 16% of households in Calgary have a pre-tax income of over $200,000. This isn't "easy" to obtain.
It's how far you want to extend your qualify of "rich." Is rich the 1%? Top 10%? But in any case, $200,000 dual-income isn't the norm.
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To be fair, a large number of homes either consist of a single person living alone or a single parent these days. Can't find the stats for Calgary specifically, but only about 2/3 of households consist of families with more than 1 person in them:
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There were 14.1 million private households in Canada in 2016, 9.5 million (67.7%) of which were composed of at least one census family. Census families are defined as married or common-law couples, with or without children, and lone-parent families.
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Of those multi-unit families, many are going to be single parent households or have at least 1 stay at home parent. It also doesn't take into account families that are just starting out or have already retired family members.
When you look at that 16% as a proportion of households where you have two parents working full time, it's probably much higher and closer to 50%.