For affluent Americans approaching retirement, Social Security can look like a modest side dish next to seven‑figure portfolios. Yet the program still delivers a meaningful, inflation‑adjusted ...

The upper middle class sits in a fascinating position when it comes to retirement planning. According to the Pew Research Center, middle-class income in 2025 is estimated to range from $52,000 to $160 ...

Upper-class families with households of four or more members earn substantially more money than their smaller counterparts. According to a recent GOBankingRates study, four-person upper-class ...

For this study, GOBankingRates assumed these families earn one and a half to double the median income for a family of its size in its state. Each median income was multiplied by 1.55557 for the lower ...