According to SmartAsset, which calculated the income a family needs to live comfortably in every US state using the MIT Living Wage Calculator, Massachusetts is the most costly state to live comfortably, and Mississippi is the cheapest.
To live comfortably, a family in the five most expensive states in the union needs an annual salary of more than $270,000.
This graphic, created by Bruno Venditti of Visual Capitalist, shows how much money two working adults and two kids would need to ...