{"id":407516,"date":"2026-08-15T18:10:07","date_gmt":"2026-08-15T18:10:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/407516\/"},"modified":"2026-08-15T18:10:07","modified_gmt":"2026-08-15T18:10:07","slug":"best-hill-country-restaurants-and-more-top-san-antonio-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/407516\/","title":{"rendered":"Best Hill Country restaurants and more top San Antonio news"},"content":{"rendered":"

A new national report<\/a> looking at the income it takes to live comfortably in each of the 50 states has revealed Texans need to earn slightly less now than a year ago. <\/p>\n

SmartAsset analyzed what a single individual, as well as family of four, must earn to cover minimum basic needs adjusted using the 50\/30\/20 budgeting rule<\/a>. The resulting estimate represents the annual, pre-tax income needed to live comfortably in every U.S. state.<\/p>\n

A single, full-time worker needs to make $90,563 to live comfortably in the Lone Star State, the report found, which is down a meager 0.2 percent from last year ($90,771).<\/p>\n

Under the 50\/30\/20 budgeting strategy, that means a single Texas earner would have $45,282 to spend on necessities like housing and utilities, $27,169 for discretionary spending, and $18,113 for emergencies or retirement savings.<\/p>\n

Texas ranked 34th nationally in SmartAsset’s list of states with the highest income needed for a single adult to live “in sustainable comfort” in 2026. Only five other states \u2014 Tennessee, Maryland, Louisiana, North Carolina, and Mississippi \u2014 saw a decline in the income needed to live comfortably this year.<\/p>\n

For a family of four to live comfortably in Texas, income requirements change significantly, according to the findings. To support a two-child household, a family needs $203,424 in combined total household income to be considered financially stable. This is down slightly from 2025, when SmartAsset reported a family of four in needed $204,922 to live comfortably in Texas.<\/p>\n

This is a comfortable lifestyle for a family of four in Texas, according to the report:<\/p>\n

$101,712 dedicated to necessities and living expenses$61,027 dedicated to discretionary spending$40,685 dedicated to emergencies, savings, or debt repayme<\/p>\n

According to the report, a family of four now needs to make at least $200,000 to live comfortably in 40 U.S. states, a figure that is far out of reach for many American families.<\/p>\n

“As housing, grocery, transportation and other essential costs pressure household budgets, earning a six-figure salary no longer guarantees financial comfort in much of the U.S.,” the report said. “A single adult now needs at least $80,000 a year to live comfortably in every state, while the threshold exceeds $100,000 in nearly half of states. For a family of four, the income needed to live comfortably is as much as $329,000.”<\/p>\n

Still, earning the minimum income to live comfortably in Texas doesn’t guarantee financial stability in the Lone Star State’s major cities. Earlier this year, SmartAsset determined single residents in San Antonio<\/a> need to make more than $83,000 to qualify as financially stable, while families of four need about $192,600.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A new national report looking at the income it takes to live comfortably in each of the 50…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":407517,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[82,84,83],"class_list":["post-407516","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-antonio","tag-san-antonio","tag-san-antonio-headlines","tag-san-antonio-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/407516","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=407516"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/407516\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/407517"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=407516"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=407516"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=407516"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}