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- Texas cities Houston, El Paso, and Lubbock require the lowest salaries for comfortable living.
- The typical urban US adult needs to make $96,500 a year to live comfortably on average.
- New York City has the highest salary to live comfortably, followed by many in California.
Residents of Houston, El Paso, and Lubbock, Texas, require the lowest salaries to live comfortably, a new SmartAsset analysis found.