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On average, a D.C. household brings in about $73,000 a year. Whether your household falls above or below that number depends on who you’re shacking up with, according to the District, Measured blog, run by D.C.’s Office of Revenue Analysis.

D.C. may be the most expensive metro area to raise a family in the country, but as it turns out, married couples with kids still make more money than their childless counterparts, even if they have to spend it on their offspring.

Married Washingtonians with children at home have a median household income of $161,000. Married people not living with children bring in about $25k less with a median household income of $136,000. But since parents with two kids end up shelling out about $31,000 a year for childcare (compared to a national average of $12,500), it pretty much evens out.

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District, Measured collected the data from the 1-year American Community Survey Public Use Microdata Sample for 2014, in which the blog converted all incomes into inflation-adjusted 2014 dollars.

Single parents have the lowest incomes out of each demographic represented. In households headed by an unmarried person with children, the median income is $36,000 (nearly this entire salary could be spent on childcare costs).

The blog also found that if you’re a single adult living with anywhere from two to four roommates, your median household income remains between $90,000 and $100,000, meaning size doesn’t matter.

The large differences in income are due to a number of factors including the “number of earners in a household; higher incomes for people farther along in their careers; and higher marriage rates for people with college degrees, who are likely to earn more money than those without a college education,” the blog reads.