Doctors, lawyers and other highly paid professionals who benefit from stable jobs, homeownership and a well-padded retirement savings account said they don’t feel well off at all.
- 🤔 Of those making more than $175,000 a year, or roughly the top 10% of tax filers, one-quarter said they were either “very poor,” “poor” or “getting by but things are tight.”
- Even a share of those making more than $500,000 and $1,000,000 said the same.
- In fact, only 12% of Americans — and just 29% of millionaires — consider themselves wealthy, a recent report says.