I find it very hard to believe that median household income is more than twice median personal income. There must be a lot more households with only one wage-earner than with more than two.
> I find it very hard to believe that median household income is more than twice median personal income.
It’s not. The $79k figure is mean of some income measure (not sure which one). Median household income is around $70k, on which basis someone said that the $79k mean figure was “pretty close to” the median income. Which, maybe, loosely it is to the median household figure, but not to the median personal income figure which is probably more relevant to individual salary. $70k (median household income) is not more than twice $38k (median personal income).
You should adjust your expectations. All anecdotal, but where I lived before now there were 5 incomes in a single household. The people who lived there before us had 4. In my own prior housing it was 3. Where I live now there's just 2. It's pretty common, housing is expensive and jobs don't pay enough. It's difficult to find housing at all on just one income. My fiancee and I had to lightly massage some numbers to meet the income requirements for our current housing.
