With a monthly income of 3,000 yuan, it is average, and there is no problem! If you see the American standard, you will be even more confused

In CCTV's "News One Plus One" column, Wang Yiming, the host and vice chairman of the China Center for International Economic Exchanges, who served as a guest, said that in the mainland, the average monthly income of residents has reached 3,000 yuan, and even if they have entered the middle-income class, the number of this group has reached 460 million.

Many people ridicule this standard as being too low

At first glance, this standard seems to be really low. On average, the income of about 3,000 yuan per month is only enough for food and clothing. Life can go on, but not quality. Even most of the time, it feels like life is going to be difficult.

So much so that many netizens ridiculed experts and ridiculed experts, saying that their monthly salary of 3,000 yuan could only be at the bottom of the unit, and they never felt that they were "in the middle".

Nansheng reminded everyone: The per capita monthly income of 3,000 yuan mentioned by the host and Wang Yiming in the "News One Plus One" column refers to "resident families", not employed people.

Let's say a family of three, the child is in the school stage, and there is no income. Only when the young husband and wife are working, then the average monthly income of these two employed persons must not be less than 4,500 yuan per person, so that the average monthly income of the three can reach 3,000 yuan.

In 2022, the per capita disposable income of residents across the country will be 36,883 yuan, a year-on-year increase of 5.0%, and after deducting price factors, the actual increase will only be 2.9% - the per capita annual income will be less than 37,000 yuan, which is about 3,000 yuan per month.

In addition to the average, the state also released the median income of all residents - 31,370 yuan in 2022, an increase of 4.7%. The monthly conversion is only 2,615 yuan, which is less than 3,000 yuan.

The median is the middle number. In 2022, the total number of Chinese residents is about 1.412 billion, and if your family's per capita monthly income reaches 2,615 yuan, it is equivalent to more than half of the Chinese – more than 700 million people.

Now, Wang Yiming said, "If your family's per capita monthly income reaches 3,000 yuan, you will be considered to have entered the middle income class." This standard is higher than the median, and close to the average - the number of people exceeding it is not just 700 million, and it is expected to be about 900 million.

Because, Wang Yiming said that the number of middle-income groups is about 460 million, plus about 900 million low-income people, and about 50 million high-income people, the total is 1.412 billion - this is the total population of China.

Nansheng tries to ask everyone: If your family's per capita income is more than half of the Chinese, isn't it considered to have entered the middle income class?

The standard is obviously not low, why do you think it is low?

The first is because of regional income differences. Taking the per capita annual income of residents in the country approaching 37,000 yuan as an example, this is a comprehensive evaluation after including urban and rural areas. Farmers' incomes are low, and if you are an urban population, you will need to raise thousands of yuan on this basis.

Even by urban standards, there is a big difference between Shanghai and Nansheng's hometown, Sanhe Town, Hefei City, Anhui Province. In Shanghai, the per capita disposable income of residents in 2022 will be 79,600 yuan, and the per capita monthly income will not be less than 6,630 yuan, and the average income of the whole family will be equalized.

Secondly, many people have given requirements to the "middle income and middle class", and in their minds, they have to "have a house, a car, travel several times a year, and even make binding requirements for academic qualifications and job types" - which is the middle income, which is clearly a wealthy person.

Middle-income is not a high standard, but many Chinese people have invisibly raised it very high. In the context of insufficient ideological preparation, when I heard the information that "the per capita monthly income reaches 3,000 yuan, it is considered a middle income", I was stunned!

Give everyone a message that is easier to "get confused".

The Pew Research Center released a research report in the first half of 2022, but the data is from 2020. Let's start with a family of three, with an annual income of between $51,967 and $155902, it belongs to the middle-income group - a per capita annual income of $17,300 can reach the target, and the average monthly income is less than $1,500.

The report also shows that a family of five, with an income of between $67,089 and $201268 in 2020, belongs to the middle class. The lower limit of the standard is $67,100, and the per capita annual income is $13,420, which translates to less than $1,200 per month.

For a family of four, an annual income of $60,000 is sufficient, with an average annual income of $15,000 per person, or $1,250 per month, and a median income of $30,000 per month for a single-person family, with an average of $2,500 per month.

For detailed information, everyone looks at the picture above, and Nansheng will not repeat it. I believe that most Chinese people will also be confused when they see the data on middle-income families in the United States from the Pew Research Center. Where is this middle-income, it is clearly the standard of the poor. This article is written by Nansheng, please do not reprint or plagiarize without authorization!