As we’re sure you’ve heard by now, renting an apartment in Boston is expensive. But thanks to Zillow’s data crunching, renters have an excuse to ask their bosses for an end of year raise, if they haven’t already.

According to Zillow, those looking to rent a middle-of-the-road Boston apartment need to bring home $100,000 a year, or work a job that pays roughly $50 an hour, reports the Boston Globe. And that’s just to afford the median monthly rent in Boston, which rings in at $2,497.

The scary thing is: according to Globe, the U.S. Census reveals that the average hourly wage for renters across the country is just a tad over $14 an hour. Even those who make $50,000 a year, or $25 per hour, can only afford to live in a small number of Massachusetts cities and towns.

But the shortfall of available affordable housing units is amplified in the Hub, where the median income for households that rent is $36,000 a year, or $18 an hour, the Globe reports.

The cure to this, if you’d like to live in Boston, you need to find one or two roommates to split the cost. But, even still, it’s alarming to think the ability to live alone is reserved to those who make at least six figures.

Twenty-five percent of renters in the state spend 50 percent of their incomes on monthly rent. In Boston, specifically, more than 50 percent of renters spend more than 30 percent of their incomes on rent, “and those households are disproportionately people of color and elderly women,” the Globe reports, citing UMass Boston Professor Michael Stone.

For context: Zillow’s calculations are based on someone spending 30 percent of his or her income on housing.

Curious what the most expensive rental market in the state is? Look no further than Weston, where to be able to afford the median rent of $3,867 a month, one has to make $77 an hour – and never wear jeans at the country club.

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