Here's the salary it takes to get beyond living 'paycheck to paycheck' in Seattle

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Living in Seattle comes at a cost. Living comfortably is costlier.

An individual in the Emerald City needs to earn $57.40 per hour before taxes to meet their basic needs, wants and other aspirations, according to a new SmartAsset study released March 7.

A two-person working household with two children has to earn a combined annual salary of at least $283,712 to live comfortably in Seattle.

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SmartAsset used the latest available cost of living data from MIT for the largest 99 U.S. cities. Then, it defined comfortable living by using the costs to the “50/30/20” rule — a budgeting method that recommends that 50% of one’s salary should cover needs (housing, groceries and transportation), 30% goes toward wants (entertainment and hobbies) and 20% toward paying off debt, saving or investing.

https://www.bizjournals.com/seattle/news/2024/03/15/salary-paycheck-to-paycheck-smartasset-report.html

[montanacowboy]

1. Yep that's about right

not easy living here when you are retired.

[BlueTsunami2018]

2. I could make it there.

The hourly rate for my trade is comparable to Philly.

[totodeinhere]

3. It's funny back in the early '70s I lived in Seattle. And I had a very nice

one bedroom apartment on Capitol Hill that cost me $80 a month. I wonder how much that apartment would cost now.