Upper Class Income Alberta

A couple of weeks ago i pointed out in a column about the upper middle class that an income of 90 000 per year would put you at the 90 th percentile of the canadian income.

Upper class income alberta. The result is an unprecedented shift among those who earn the most money in canada where the average income is 38 000 and a 100 000 income puts you in the richest six per cent of the population. The more rural you move the more you get paid so that may fluctuate. Metropolitan areas with the lowest upper income population. That s far less than what the upper crust earns in many communities in western canada.

What you have to earn to be in the 1 in canada s major cities it takes nearly three times as much to be rich in calgary as it does in the niagara region. Income range percent of families description quintile 1 up to 40 000 21 1 poor near poor quintile 2 40 60 000 17 9 lower middle or modest income quintile 3 60 85 000 20 4 middle income quintile 4 85 125 000 21 4 upper middle income quintile 5 over 125 000 19 2 high income or well off. Middle class incomes in alberta often cross the 100 000 mark including in both calgary and edmonton. Median total family income in alberta from 2000 to 2018 in canadian.

I would say middle class would be around 50k 90k in alberta. Shortly before the decline of alberta s oil and gas sector statistics canada considered middle class families in fort mcmurray to be making a range of 91 000 to 297 000 while households in. For families i would think around 100k as the average household income in alberta is right around that mark.