(NEXSTAR) – Wealth is in the eye of the beholder, a recent survey of 1,000 Americans found.
GOBankingRates asked 1,000 adults across different generations what salary they think is necessary to be considered "upper class" and found the answers differed between Gen Z, millennials and boomers.
Boomers, or those born after World War II and through 1964, were most likely to say a salary between $100,001 and $250,000 is considered "upper class." Thirty-five percent of the boomers surveyed, who are all at or near retirement age, said surpassing six figures was enough. Twenty percent thought you needed far more than that, deeming only a salary above $500,000 an "upper class" wage.
Millennials' answers weren't too different from boomers' opinions. About 37 percent of millennials surveyed (or pe

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