Income to Live Comfortably by State Map

Current as of 2022.

Methodology

The latest Federal Reserve Report on the Economic Well-Being of U.S. Households states that 34% of US households live financially comfortably. The 66^th percentile household income is $107,111, so it is easy to know that that is the average nationwide income to live comfortably. No polling appears to be available for this broken down by state, so I simply weighted this income by the Real Personal Consumption Expenditures, which is a measure of the cost of living in each state.

Sources

Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System "Report on the Economic Well-Being of U.S. Households in 2022" (May 2023).
Bureau of Economic Analysis SARPI Real personal income and real personal Consumption Expenditures (PCE) by state (December 2023).
DQYDJ Household Income Percentile Calculator for the United States (2023).