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by browseatwork 3747 days ago
There is widespread, often reasonable disagreement about what middle class means, either in terms of salary or total assets. Or cultural practice.

It's true, people do under-acknowledge other industries - law, finance, medicine.

http://www.sfgate.com/business/article/Tech-isn-t-biggest-S-...

Average SF health-related salary in 2014 - 67k.

"The industry employs 20 percent of the city’s workers, with nearly 122,000 jobs. The average annual wage across all jobs in the sector — from pharmacists to surgeons to genetic counselors — was $67,410."

When does health stop and tech being? Often it's a fuzzy line.