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This Is the Salary You Need To Afford the Average Home in Your State

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Before you buy a home, it's important to find out if you can afford the monthly mortgage payment.

Read: Tips To Get Your Mortgage Payments as Low as Possible
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To do this, some financial experts recommend your housing costs -- primarily your mortgage payments -- shouldn't consume more than 30% of your monthly income. With this rule of thumb in mind, GOBankingRates looked at home prices and mortgage rates in every state and estimated the minimum salary needed to afford the average home.

Last updated: Oct. 12, 2021

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Derek Fleming / Flickr.com

Alabama: $51,104

  • Monthly mortgage payment: $601

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Mihai Stanciu / Shutterstock.com

Alaska: $84,326

  • Monthly mortgage payment: $1,284

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Arizona: $70,436

  • Monthly mortgage payment: $1,315

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Wesley Hitt / Getty Images

Arkansas: $47,912

  • Monthly mortgage payment: $558

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California: $109,525

  • Monthly mortgage payment: $2,610

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Colorado: $79,527

  • Monthly mortgage payment: $1,727

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Doug Kerr / Flickr.com

Connecticut: $81,063

  • Monthly mortgage payment: $1,542

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Doug Kerr / Flickr.com

Delaware: $68,808

  • Monthly mortgage payment: $1,141

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Fotoluminate / Shutterstock.com

Florida: $68,915

  • Monthly mortgage payment: $1,212

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JR P / Flickr.com

Georgia: $59,641

  • Monthly mortgage payment: $964

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Teemu008 / Flickr.com

Hawaii: $126,508

  • Monthly mortgage payment: $2,898

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Bryan Danger Wheeler / Flickr.com

Idaho: $71,762

  • Monthly mortgage payment: $1,461

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Radoslaw Lecyk / Shutterstock.com

Illinois: $66,060

  • Monthly mortgage payment: $1,142

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Thomas Barrat / Shutterstock.com

Indiana: $54,212

  • Monthly mortgage payment: $724

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Louis / Flickr.com

Iowa: $55,939

  • Monthly mortgage payment: $744

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Kent Kanouse / Flickr.com

Kansas:$55,752

  • Monthly mortgage payment: $763

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Anne Kitzman / Shutterstock.com

Kentucky: $52,189

  • Monthly mortgage payment: $657

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Brendan van Son / Shutterstock.com

Louisiana: $53,137

  • Monthly mortgage payment: $698

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Spencer Means / Flickr.com

Maine: $71,082

  • Monthly mortgage payment: $1,255

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Robert Shafer / Getty Images

Maryland: $76,117

  • Monthly mortgage payment: $1,526

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Doug Kerr / Flickr.com

Massachusetts: $96,064

  • Monthly mortgage payment: $2,157

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Doug Kerr / Flickr.com

Michigan: $58,990

  • Monthly mortgage payment: $881

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Randen Pederson / Flickr.com

Minnesota: $69,911

  • Monthly mortgage payment: $1,248

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Jerrye & Roy Klotz MD / Wikimedia Commons

Mississippi: $47,216

  • Monthly mortgage payment: $531

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Paul Sableman / Flickr.com

Missouri: $55,365

  • Monthly mortgage payment: $782

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Lorraine Boogich / Getty Images

Montana: $70,608

  • Monthly mortgage payment: $1,389

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Ammodramus / Wikimedia Commons

Nebraska: $59,626

  • Monthly mortgage payment: $927

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Nevada: $73,665

  • Monthly mortgage payment: $1,376

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DenisTangneyJr / iStock.com

New Hampshire: $83,833

  • Monthly mortgage payment: $1,790

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Tallguy0187 / Wikimedia Commons

New Jersey: $89,474

  • Monthly mortgage payment: $2,060

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teofilo / Flickr.com

New Mexico: $58,878

  • Monthly mortgage payment: $924

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Tana Lee Alves / Shutterstock.com

New York: $74,920

  • Monthly mortgage payment: $1,388

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Jon Curnow / Flickr.com

North Carolina: $61,953

  • Monthly mortgage payment: $962

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Jimmy Emerson / Flickr.com

North Dakota: $64,193

  • Monthly mortgage payment: $1,007

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Denise Kappa / Shutterstock.com

Ohio: $56,308

  • Monthly mortgage payment: $818

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Hank Shiffman / Shutterstock.com

Oklahoma: $50,785

  • Monthly mortgage payment: $594

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Rigucci / Shutterstock.com

Oregon: $85,406

  • Monthly mortgage payment: $1,770

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Doug Kerr / Flickr.com

Pennsylvania: $65,425

  • Monthly mortgage payment: $1,030

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David / Flickr.com

Rhode Island: $82,230

  • Monthly mortgage payment: $1,626

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Torrey Wiley / Flickr.com

South Carolina: $58,897

  • Monthly mortgage payment: $841

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Alexius Horatius / Wikimedia Commons

South Dakota: $60,890

  • Monthly mortgage payment: $1,016

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Picasa / Flickr.com

Tennessee: $55,651

  • Monthly mortgage payment: $858

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Skyhobo / Getty Images

Texas: $63,333

  • Monthly mortgage payment: $1,115

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Wikimedia Commons

Utah: $78,221

  • Monthly mortgage payment: $1,699

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denisbin / Flickr.com

Vermont: $77,216

  • Monthly mortgage payment: $1,428

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Nannette Turner / Flickr.com

Virginia: $68,399

  • Monthly mortgage payment: $1,302

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brewbooks / Flickr.com

Washington: $91,730

  • Monthly mortgage payment: $2,029

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Joanne C Sullivan / Flickr.com

West Virginia: $46,351

  • Monthly mortgage payment: $437

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Shihmei Barger / Flickr.com

Wisconsin: $64,120

  • Monthly mortgage payment: $1,042

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alptraum / iStock.com

Wyoming: $61,504

  • Monthly mortgage payment: $1,014

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Methodology: For this piece GOBankingRates first surveyed monthly living expenses in all 50 states. The cost-of-living comparison included the following factors: (1) yearly mortgage by assuming 20% down payment, 30-year fixed loan, current interest rate as sourced from St. Louis Federal Reserve (2.87%) for every state and multiplying that by 12 (1 year), sourced from Zillow's home value index and determined using Zillow's Mortgage Calculator; (2) annual necessities cost (grocery, utilities, healthcare and transportation) by taking the 2020 midyear Bureau of Labor Statistics consumer expenditure survey and factored out by the Missouri Economic Research and Information Center's cost-of-living index for Quarter 2 of 2021. Necessity costs were totaled the annual dollar cost of necessities in each state. This dollar amount for necessities was then doubled to find the (3) actual annual income needed to live comfortably in the state, assuming a person is following the 50-30-20 budgeting guideline, which requires an income double the cost of necessities. The amount of money specified for savings is equal to 20 percent of the total income needed, and the amount specified for discretionary spending is equal to 30% of the total income needed. All data was collected and is up to date as of Sept. 1, 2021.

This article originally appeared on GOBankingRates.com: This Is the Salary You Need To Afford the Average Home in Your State