{"id":1038347,"date":"2026-09-24T10:05:48","date_gmt":"2026-09-24T04:35:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1038347"},"modified":"2026-09-24T10:36:01","modified_gmt":"2026-09-24T05:06:01","slug":"h-1b-visa-how-much-does-a-family-of-4-really-need-to-live-comfortably-in-10-us-cities-in-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/09\/24\/h-1b-visa-how-much-does-a-family-of-4-really-need-to-live-comfortably-in-10-us-cities-in-2026\/","title":{"rendered":"H-1B visa: How much does a family of 4 really need to live comfortably in 10 US cities in 2026?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For many Indians, moving to the US on an H-1B visa is closely associated with the promise of better career opportunities and a higher standard of living. But with housing, healthcare, education and everyday expenses rising in several American cities, a high salary does not necessarily translate into a financially stress-free life. <\/p>\n<p>An NRI entrepreneur has now offered his estimate of how much a family of four would need to earn annually to live comfortably in 10 major US cities in 2026.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For many Indians, moving to the US on an H-1B visa is closely associated with the promise of better career opportunities and a higher standard of living. But with housing, healthcare, education and everyday expenses rising in several American cities, a high salary does not necessarily translate into a financially stress-free life. An NRI entrepreneur has now offered his estimate of how much a family of four would need to earn annually to live comfortably in 10 major US cities in 2026.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[93,4,24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1038347","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bpo-the-tribune","category-newspapers","category-the-tribune"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1038347","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1038347"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1038347\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1038392,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1038347\/revisions\/1038392"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1038347"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1038347"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1038347"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}