NY Times series on Class in America

The New York Times has an interesting series called "Class in America: Shadowy Lines That Still Divide". Today's article, the first in the series, discusses the concept of class mobility and moving up. I don't want to ruin the article, so read it if you have time, it's really good.

There's also a cool interactive indicator of "class" with regard to education, wealth, income and occupation. I filled it out using my bachelor's degree, my income (just under $50k base salary), my occupation as legal support staff and my negative net worth. My occupation ranked in the 60th percentile for prestige, my education was the 91st percentile, my income was 69th percentile and my wealth was a 25th percentile. The wealth indicator (net worth) starts at "$0", but my net worth isn't even that high. It's negative. I think that question is a little flawed, but excepting that, I ranked in the 61st percentile in terms of class, but I certainly don't feel like I'm doing that well. I guess I see too many ads reminding me of all of the stuff I can't buy. See how you rank. Don't have the free subscription to the New York Times? No fear, go to BugMeNot first to get a log in code.