{"id":211247,"date":"2026-03-30T03:39:27","date_gmt":"2026-03-30T03:39:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/211247\/"},"modified":"2026-03-30T03:39:27","modified_gmt":"2026-03-30T03:39:27","slug":"do-you-make-enough-to-live-comfortably-in-miami-nbc-6-south-florida","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/211247\/","title":{"rendered":"Do you make enough to live comfortably in Miami? \u2013 NBC 6 South Florida"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For a single adult to live comfortably in Miami, you need to earn more than $100,000 a year. For a family of four, that number jumps to more than $230,000.<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s according to <a href=\"https:\/\/smartasset.com\/data-studies\/salary-needed-live-comfortably-2026\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">a new report from SmartAsset<\/a>, which says that to \u201clive comfortably,\u201d you should follow the 50-30-20 rule. That means 50% of your post-tax income goes to needs like rent, groceries, and utilities, 30% to wants, and 20% to savings or retirement.<\/p>\n<p>The problem? The same study shows that while a family of four in Miami should be making about $230,000, the median household income is just over $66,000. In Hialeah, it\u2019s even lower, at just over $57,000.<\/p>\n<p>So, how can you get help?<\/p>\n<p>There are nonprofits like <a href=\"https:\/\/smartasset.com\/data-studies\/salary-needed-live-comfortably-2026\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">United Way Miami<\/a>, which we at NBC6 have highlighted before, that support families at or below the poverty line by connecting them with resources.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.findhelp.org\/provider\/miami-dade-county---community-action-and-human-services-department-(cahsd)--miami-fl\/4698791823540224?postal=33101\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Miami-Dade County<\/a> also offers assistance programs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"For a single adult to live comfortably in Miami, you need to earn more than $100,000 a year.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":211248,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[123,125,124],"class_list":["post-211247","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-miami","tag-miami","tag-miami-headlines","tag-miami-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211247","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=211247"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211247\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/211248"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=211247"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=211247"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=211247"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}