Business: The Expensive Cities

THE following figures represent the yearly gross income that a family of four must earn in each area to get by on a "moderate" standard of living. The Labor Department figures, the latest available, are for the spring of 1967—and since then, consumer prices have jumped almost 10%.

Honolulu. . . . $10,902 Cleveland. . . . 9,262 Cincinnati—KY—Ind. 8,826

New York. . . .9,977 Champaign—Urbana 9,257 Bakersfield, Calif. . .8,822

Boston. . .. . 9,973 Indianapolis.. . .9,232 Pittsburgh. . . .8,764

Hartford. . . .9,833 San Diego. . . .9,209...

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