Comment by jvanderbot
1 year ago
More likely different people are represented in the surveys and general trends are erroneously extrapolated from non-representative populations
1 year ago
More likely different people are represented in the surveys and general trends are erroneously extrapolated from non-representative populations
Much more likely is that self-reporting is notoriously unreliable and "paycheck to paycheck" is a state of mind.
We're better at doing surveys than that.
If you look in the details of the "paycheck to paycheck" surveys, people reporting they make 200k+ a year also say yes to that, so I think it's just unclear what they think it means.