kev374 queried, “[H]as it become so common that almost everyone here in Orange County is earning at the six figure mark?” Maybe almost everyone he knows makes that much but it is hard for me to imagine all the barristas, store clerks, surfing instructors, teachers, etc coming from elsewhere in the state just to work in OC. The US Census bureau states that median “household” income for the county in 2004 was 58K (and change) and that the average household has 3 persons.