 Sarah Foster is an analyst with Bankrate. They polled 2,407 U.S. adults and found, too, that only 25% of people say they're financially secure right now, while 45% believe they will be someday and 30% say they'll never be. I think a lot of the story here that we can tell is that inflation is behind these assumptions. And when it comes to what people think they need to make to be rich, that's $520,000 a year.