According to the state self-sufficiency study:
According to the state self-sufficiency study:
• A single adult with no children needs to earn an hourly wage of $17.41 to be economically self‐sufficient. A two‐adult couple with no children needs a combined hourly wage of $22.80 to be economically self‐sufficient.
• A single adult with one preschooler needs an hourly wage of $25.59 to be economically self‐sufficient.
• A single adult with one preschool and one school-age child needs to earn an hourly wage of $31.90 to be economically self‐sufficient.
• A two‐adult couple with one preschool and one school-age child needs to earn a combined hourly wage of $36.20 (or $18.10 each on average) to be able to be economically self‐sufficient.
• A family of four needs to bring in nearly $78,000 annually on Oahu to be self-sufficient or able to cover expenses without government or outside help. That’s up from $74,940 in 2014 and is $22,000 more than what the same family would have needed a decade ago.
