claim: an annual income of $500,000 "in manhattan, believe it or not, is middle class."
author: sal albanese
evidence_1: mar 8, 2016 ... city says trump should not have received tax break but won't explain how it  happened. here's where it gets interesting for trump: to be eligible for star, a  married couple must have annual income of $500,000 or less. one wouldn't think  a guy as rich as trump claims to be would qualify, but records filed ...
evidence_2: feb 6, 2009 ... “as hard as it is to believe, bankers who are living on the upper east side making  $2 or $3 million a year have set up a life for themselves in which they are also at  zero at the .... an article last sunday about living in manhattan on a $500,000  salary misstated the social security deduction on those wages.
evidence_3: mar 24, 2017 ... what one invariably discovers is that couples that earn $400,000 or $500,000  maintain lifestyles they think are commensurate with those incomes. “what's left”  is typically the remainder after expenditures on what actual middle-class families  — say those living on $70,000 to $150,000 per year — would ...
evidence_4: but things are going to get more painful for the upper middle class in 2018 with  the proposed elimination of state income taxes, capping mortgage interest  deduction, and limiting property tax deduction to $10,000. although ... people  who consistently earn $500,000+ annually should not have any financial  problems. if they ...
evidence_5: apr 24, 2010 ... last year, the new york times told us it's difficult for people to make ends meet  on $500,000 a year, and the washington post insisted that it's hard to “squeak by ” on $300,000 a year. now the denver post insists that if you make $250,000 a  year, you may only be “middle class”: the $250,000 income cutoff ...