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Sarah Palin's salary as governor of Alaska is reported to be $125,000 plus an additional $60,000 in reimbursable expenses. Her husband's salary has been reported as $93,000. This combined income is well above what the Census Bureau considers middle class. According to the Census' most recent data their middle class definition is: Median income for married households was just shy of $70,000 in 2006. The range of the middle 20 percent was approximately $57,000 to $83,000, and the range of the "Baucus middle class"—the middle 60 percent—was about $35,500 to $122,000. This $122,000 figure, then, represents the highest possible income that a married household could accurately call middle income, or "middle class." Hence, Sarah Palin may want us to think of her family as being middle class but her salary alone places her family into the upper class.

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