In the United States, how much can an annual income be considered rich? People who can occupy a place on the Forbes 400 list are considered super-rich, while in the minds of Americans, the standard for measuring the rich is much lower. According to the survey, most Americans believe that people with an annual household income of more than $150,000, or a household net worth of more than $1 million, are considered wealthy, because such income can enter the top 10% of earners in the United States. But if you go one step further and enter the top 1% of the wealthy people in the United States, you need to have a net worth of more than $3 million, or an annual income of more than $300,000. According to statistics, the median household income in the United States in June 2014 was $53,891, which means that half of the families in the United States have an annual income of less than $53,891, so it is not surprising that the annual income in the United States can enter the top 10% of the income ranks, and most people are considered rich.

But despite this, Americans still have different views on how much an annual income is rich, 70% of people are considered rich if their annual household income is more than $150,000, of course, there are also high standards, of which 15% of people are rich The standard is that the annual household income should be more than $1 million. But 12 percent of Americans don't have a high definition of a wealthy person, believing that someone with an annual household income of between $60,000 and $90,000 can be called wealthy. Even 18 percent believe that as long as their family income can reach $60,000 a year, they are rich. The $60,000-a-year income standard is attractive to low-income families, as more than half of all households in the U.S. don't reach that level yet. At the very least, families with such income are separated from low-income people and have the hope of running towards a well-off life. People with different annual household incomes also have different views on the income criteria for becoming rich, with those with an annual household income of less than $50,000 saying so. As long as they earn $100,000 a year, they can see themselves as wealthy. People with an annual household income of $50,000 to $75,000 consider a person to be considered wealthy if they earn $200,000 a year. People with an annual household income of more than $75,000 have a higher income standard for the rich, believing that they must earn more than $250,000 a year to be considered rich.

If the standard of household net worth is how many such assets do you have in the United States to be considered wealthy? The average American is $1 million. As can be seen from the results of the survey, in the minds of Americans. Measured by both annual income and household net worth, the bar for the wealthy is not very high. Of course, the standard of the rich defined by Americans is slightly lower than the standard of the rich that the federal government refers to in terms of tax standards. For example, a two-parent household with an annual income of $450,000 or more in 2014 is taxed at the top marginal personal income tax rate of 39.6%. These families naturally belong to wealthy families.

In an interesting survey conducted by the Princeton Center of Inquiry, when asked whether people can realize their dreams of becoming rich, more than sixty percent of the people said that they would not be able to become rich if they worked hard in their lives, and more than three out of ten people thought that as long as they worked hard, were good at investing or inheriting an inheritance, they would be lucky. What a super lotto or something. It is possible to become rich. Only 2% believe that they are now rich, which is a very low percentage. However, among young people, there is still a lot of confidence in becoming wealthy in the future, with 54% of young people aged 18 to 29 believing that they may become wealthy in the future. The older you get, the longer you have lived your life, the more obvious the downward trend of enthusiasm for becoming rich because age is unforgiving.

If you want to become rich, you can't just dream about being rich all day long to become rich, but you have to be down-to-earth and make your dreams come true. There are more people in the world who want to be rich than ants. But it's not easy to be an ant head. Americans' road to prosperity does not depend on their fathers, but on their own. On the channel of how to become rich. 20% of people think that doing a small business, opening a small company, starting from scratch, from small to large, is the basic way to become rich. Statistics also show that most of the people in the United States who do not rely on inheritance to become rich start from small businesses. 19% believe that it is necessary to have a high-paying job, and that it is possible to become rich if you do not work as a boss.

People want to be rich, they just have to be motivated. Whether you can enjoy yourself and call for wind and rain when you are rich may be a kind of human nature. But for Americans, having adequate material comforts and living a privileged life over others is not the main reason they want to be rich. Forty-one percent of Americans want to be rich mainly because their children can have a good living environment and a bright future, and 18 percent believe that once they are rich, they can help their parents and other relatives. There are also 14% of people who are absolutely realistic, and they can pay off all their debts when they become rich, and they will be debt-free and light, and their lives will be naturally beautiful. Of course, there are also 11% of people who will become the basis for the rich to enjoy more material life, and live as comfortable as they want. In the end, 9% of people probably have worked too hard in their lives, and their goal to become rich is to be able to retire immediately and no longer have to bend their waists for five buckets of rice.

Some people say that the United States is a country that worships money, and it seems that Americans love money as much as their lives, but the American people do not think so. In a survey, only 13% of adults said that being wealthy was the most important thing in their lives. Having more money is only in seventh place on the list of the most valuable things in the hearts of Americans. Americans believe that the most rewarding thing in life is having enough time to do what they love, and 67 percent agree with this view. Among the most rewarding things in life, Americans are more likely to identify with career success, having children, getting married, volunteering, donating to charities, and living a religious life.

According to the survey, 22 percent of people with an annual household income of less than $20,000 are most looking forward to becoming rich, while 11 percent of adults with an annual income of more than 100,000 yuan are most looking forward to becoming rich. It seems that there are two kinds of people who want to be rich the most, one is the poor, the poor will think about change, and the poorer the people, the more they hope to get rich overnight and change the fate of their lives. The second is that the more affluent people want to be well-off when they enter the well-off. The rich feel about having wealth is a bit of a taste of being hungry, and most of the rich people surveyed think that wealth is the least important to them.

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Luxury yachts are the toys of the rich at sea. In general, the price of a luxury yacht is around $6.7 million to $11 million, and the annual maintenance cost is $1 million. The United States has the largest number of private yachts in the world, and in some coastal cities in the United States, buying luxury yachts has become a favorite of the rich, with yachts more than 120 meters costing between $6 million and $8 million. If you have a yacht, you have to have someone to drive it, and hiring a captain on a yacht costs about $150,000 a year, a cook on board costs $55,000, and a waiter on board costs $35,000. After buying a yacht, I only walked around the sea a few times a year, but the insurance for the yacht was $300,000, the dock fee was $240,000, and the fuel cost was $180,000.

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Private jets are the toys of the rich in the sky, and when you have enough of playing on the water, you want to have fun in the sky. Private jets can be much more expensive than luxury yachts, with a private jet costing around $50 million, and some lengthening it can even reach hundreds of millions of dollars. The annual maintenance cost of a private jet is $2.5 million. The Gulfstream G550 aircraft is the favorite private jet of the American tycoons, and the tycoons mostly use this kind of aircraft for commercial flights, business, meetings, and convenience.

Private jets are mostly used for long-distance flights, and helicopters are used for short distances. The price of a helicopter in the United States is $6.5 million, and the annual maintenance cost is about $1 million. Many large companies in the United States own helicopters for the exclusive use of their presidents. The Bell 430 helicopter is the most popular, with one such helicopter costing about $150,000 per year for insurance, $400,000 for maintenance, $200,000 for fuel, and $210,000 for crew.

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The world's rich probably like luxury cars, and the favorite luxury car of the American rich is a Rolls-Royce, which is probably related to the fact that Americans prefer the British gentleman culture. Remember that at Jackson's funeral, almost all the guests were in Rolls-Royce. A Rolls-Royce car costs about $380,000 to $680,000, and the cost of maintenance for a year is about $70,000, which is equivalent to buying a big toy for the rich, and the cost of hiring a driver will not exceed $80,000 a year.

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Buy private islands, like the 2.7-square-kilometer Bahamian island, which is worth $55 million, and has a master's home and a servant's house. Of course, being an owner on such a private island means coming once or twice a year to enjoy it, and finally you have to go back to the mainland of the United States to make money.

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The best gastronomic indulgence is to have a dedicated personal chef at your service. Wealthy people hire cooks at prices ranging from $80,000 to $150,000 a year. It's not enough to have a chef, a chef also needs an assistant, and the assistant has to pay between $65,000 and $120,000 a year. A servant earns between $50,000 and $80,000 a year, while a housekeeper earns between $75,000 and $90,000. The average wealthy family in the United States will hire 4 to 5 such servants, and the super-rich family will hire dozens of servants. (To be continued.) )

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