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You're Making More Money But It Doesn't Feel Like It, Especially In Boston Metro Area
All Americans are feeling the effects of rising inflation rates, but people living in Boston, Cambridge, and Newton have the hardest time stretching a dollar, a new study by SmartAsset found.
The Boston metropolitan area requires the third-highest paycheck out of the 25 metropolitan cities including in the SmartAsset study, requiring an after-tax salary of $78,752 for a single person to live comfortably. This figure is considerably higher than the average after-tax salary needed to live comfortably in metro areas, which is calculated at $67,060.
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