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Millennials can't afford to pay rent in these California cities because of the renter wage gap

Sarah Abdeshahian, 22, a recent graduate of the University of California Berkeley, at her one bedroom apartment on Wednesday, Feb. 10, 2021, in San Francisco, California.

Los Angeles, San Diego, San Francisco and three other California cities have some of the biggest millennial renter wage gaps in the country — the gap being the difference between what the typical worker can afford versus the average rental costs.

Of the California cities, L.A. has the biggest rent wage gap for, followed by San Diego in third place, San Francisco in fifth, San Jose in seventh, Riverside in eighth and Sacramento in 12th, according to an analysis by Filterbuy using from the U.S. Census Bureau's 2020 American Community Survey Public Use Microdata Sample.

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