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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Dr. Harry" data-source="post: 2596506" data-attributes="member: 5468">I don't know where you got these numbers.  According to the US Census Bureau, real median household income for 2004 was $44,389 (see page 10 of the linked report).  According to the data presented on page 12 (these refer to the page numbers as the .pdf file sees them), the median income is $40,798 for men and $31,223 for women.U.S. Census Report:  <a href="http://www.census.gov/prod/2005pubs/p60-229.pdf" target="_blank">http://www.census.gov/prod/2005pubs/p60-229.pdf</a>If you want to go into greater detail, look for the average salaries of specific fields.  It is the height of ignorance to say, as drothgary effectively said, "because I have a job in a very well-paying field, everyone else has that as well".</blockquote>