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  • Acronym: High Earner, Not Rich Yet. Those earning $250K - $500K/year and most at risk in the event of non-extension of the Bush tax reductions. Apparently those making more than $500K (the "rich") wouldn't feel the pinch of a return to previous tax brackets. Heard on PBS's The News Hour.

    October 6, 2010

  • 'Fifteen years ago if you’d told April Little that she’d make $300,000 a year, she would have pictured a life free of financial stress.

    “The white picket fence—I have the whole visual in my head,” says Little, 38 years old, a human-resources executive turned career coach in Rochester, N.Y. “I don’t want to sound ungrateful, but when I got to that proverbial mountaintop I realized there’s a lot of expenses. And I still don’t own a home.”

    So go the plush-but-not-too-plush lives of the Americans who qualify as HENRY—high earner, not rich yet.'

    - Callum Borcher, 'Meet the HENRYS: The Six-Figure Earners Who Don’t Feel Rich', Wall Street Journal, 5 October 2024.

    October 6, 2024