Average consumer now carries $6,329 in credit card debt. 'People are stretched,' expert says.

seaQueue , 1 hour ago

Averages really obfuscate the story here. A ~$6300 average could mean 6 people carrying $6300 balances or five carrying no balance and one dude carrying $30k+. I’d love to see the distribution here because leaning on credit for necessities is what people do when they’re falling out of the middle class.

FlashMobOfOne , 1 hour ago (edited 1 hour ago)

Stories like this are why I have no hope for the future, at least here in the US.

My eighty year-old parents are driving for DoorDash (in my car) and that’s all the income they have to live on. If they hadn’t paid off their mortgage years ago they’d be homeless.

return2ozma OP , 1 hour ago

The empire is collapsing.

viking , 2 hours ago

In the US.

That’s quite an important fact.

BlackLaZoR , 2 hours ago

Average consumer

Average US consumer.

Also feel free to add public debt per capita into this - it will be paid from the future taxes after all

kandoh , 1 hour ago

Yeah there’s absolutely a bunch of rich people carrying over 50k credit card debt they don’t even care about that are throwing this off

Steve , 1 hour ago

Thats not how this works…

henfredemars , 2 hours ago

What’s the median? Average could just be my neighbor Steve.

shamrockpreacher5 , 3 hours ago

Is everyone just hoping hyperinflation takes off?

halcyoncmdr , 3 hours ago

You assume that people have a choice. Wages are so low compared to the cost of living in most of this country that unless you’re making six figures, you aren’t going to have much extra without sacrificing what used to just be normal a couple decades ago.

Johnny Harris recently released a video going through several income levels, starting at a $25k job up to $25 million and how that would breakdown for monthly costs with department of labor data for food and housing.

youtu.be/NfMdvee5HoY?si=giQ8pStyu29cwXst