I believe for a bachelor/spinster, a net income of 300k is enough to live well. When living alone, you only need a one bedroom apartment in a good address. You only need around 40k or 50k max and you have 250k for everything else. You can save 200k and have expenses of 50k which is very extravagant. So in my opinion, a bachelor earning a net of 300k is living life on the first lane. For a man with a working wife and one child, I would put it at 500k...and assume that his wife earns 100k. I do not intent to mean that women should earn less than men, only that women tend to marry "up" and men marry "down". A man with an income of 400k will likely have a wife with an income of 100k (assumption). Therefore, for a family with one child, a net income of 500k will afford them a comfortable life.

True. Only less than three per cent of all salaried Kenyan workers earn more than Sh100,000, according to the Kenya National Bureau of Statistics 2015 report.

http://www.the-star.co.k...s-strikers-told_c1470936

I wonder how many Kenyans are "genuinely " earning kshs300K(close $40K annually). A good number in developed countries earning less. Majority of Chinese making less.

Wewe Swenani wacha matusi. ..
Just saying those earning more than 450k are outliers in the scheme of things #Fact

450K gross house hold income think ni wengi kiasi. OK I imagine. 450K gross salary for individuals will be mostly for deputy managers/managers in large Corporations/Private sector. Husband and wife who are in middle management in these corporations will also make that combined.

If you are relying on employment to generate that 300k lifestyle then stop imagining that you belong to the leafy suburbs. If you are fired today and cannot maintain that lifestyle for 5 years just go back to your lane. You are not that productive.

You have no idea of what you are talking about!

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Count Yourself lucky if You have a gross salary above 200,000ksh. The low mortgage uptake statistics in Kenya is a pointer that a small percentage of the population can comfortably service a monthly mortgage payment of 100,000ksh , that is unless You are a banker.

it would be tricky using housing and especially mortgage as a pointer to what people earn, in kenya housing is cheap, do you know that majority of Kenyans actually own their homes, plus if one is even earning 50k it is very affordable for the same individual to own a house, a ka loan of 700k get one a nice plot and another loan of around 800k will put up a decent 3 bedroom house