One of the most important pieces of Social Security retirement benefits is the annual cost-of-living adjustment, or COLA.

The official COLA won't be announced by the Social Security Administration until October, but it's worth paying attention to estimates for planning.

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Per the most up-to-date Pew Research, your income has to exceed $169,800 per year to be considered upper-middle class. If you wanted to be in the upper-middle class in 2005, you had to earn ...

If you wanted to be in the upper-middle class in 2005, you had to earn $117,408.34 per year in 2005. This calculation comes from the U.S. Labor of Bureau Statistics’ CPI Calculator.