The article makes a good point about how those numbers are surprisingly low given that a million isn't that much money these days. If you read it, they polled women making between $30k-$60k per year (e.g. national median). But like everything money related, it all depends on where you're located. I can tell you for a fact in NYC that number would have to be MUCH MUCH higher. Women in their 30s were saying guys with $1.1MM??? A typical professional in his 30s in NYC is very likely to have well over $1.1MM. That much money wouldn't even come close to impressing women here. I'd say it would start at around $5MM, maybe $3MM if you asked women in Brooklyn and Queens as well.

On another note, I'm really tired of these national median income numbers (around $50k). Its such nonsense. Do you know if they take out teenagers and senior citizens that number goes up to almost $60k since typically its teens and senior citizens that do the very low paying service jobs? Then if you adjust it for other things, like part-time workers, people who aren't working for money (e.g. a lot of non-profit workers), small business owners who hold their money as retained earnings not as income, and so on and so forth ---- essentially to get a truer picture of median income for a typical person -- estimates say it would come out to anywhere between $70k-$90k (for the nationwide median). That's why people think politicians are so disengaged from reality when they talk about helping the middle class and they talks about helping people making $50k - most middle-class median income earners are making well over that much and feel left out. If they want to focus on middle class, they need to focus on households making between $80k-$150k at minimum.

i agree with poster this number would be way higher both for salary and buy-in. however, if you live in nyc, i cannot get over the obvious arbitrage--buy elsewhere! in anycase, i'm surprised men buy in so low.