What salary do you need to live in Sheboygan, WI?

The cost side of living in Sheboygan

Renters in Sheboygan pay a median $993 a month for two bedrooms. Size matters: one bedroom is $766, three bedrooms $1,015, so going from the smallest to the largest of the three adds $2,988 a year.

Buying is the other half of the housing picture: owners put the median home in Sheboygan, WI at $232,700. Against a median household income of $73,094, the ratio is 3.2× — one of the gentler home-price-to-income ratios in the country.

The Regional Price Parity, BEA's index of local prices with the US at 100, is 94.0 here. Below 100 means a paycheck stretches further: $100,000 in Sheboygan has the buying power of roughly $106,367 at national average prices.

How much you need to earn in Sheboygan

With a two-bedroom at the median rent, the score enters Tight at $29,000, Okay at $59,000 and Comfortable at $117,000 a year before tax. At the Comfortable line, a year of rent takes 10% of income and the median home is 2.0× income.

The Royal grade is within reach at $334,000 a year, where both rent and the median home price look small next to income.

These lines come straight from the calculator's formula: the income is raised until the two-bedroom score crosses each cutoff, then rounded up to the next $1,000.

Four salaries, three home sizes in Sheboygan

On $75,000, a one-bedroom scores 56 and a three-bedroom 52, both Okay; the extra bedrooms cost points but not a grade.

Read down the two-bedroom column and the first Comfortable row is $150,000, consistent with the $117,000 line above.

Sheboygan compared with every US metro

Ranked against all 387 metros, Sheboygan sits 181st on overall price level and 297th on the two-bedroom rent median, counting from the most expensive. Its median home value ranks 238th.

For a sense of scale, the metros just above and below it on two-bedroom rent are Roanoke, VA ($993) and Ames, IA ($992).

Sheboygan vs. the rest of Wisconsin

Statewide, Wisconsin's median two-bedroom rent is $1,106 and its median home value $266,500. Sheboygan's rent is −10% against that, and its home value −13%; the price parity is 94.0 versus 94.1 for the state.

Run Wisconsin's statewide medians through the same score and Comfortable begins at $133,000; Sheboygan's line is −12% from that.

Within Wisconsin, the metros closest to Sheboygan on rent and overall prices are Oshkosh-Neenah, WI, Wausau, WI, and Fond du Lac, WI. Their Comfortable lines for two bedrooms sit at $113,000, $113,000, and $111,000.

Does the typical Sheboygan income clear the bar?

A household at the Sheboygan median income of $73,094 would see a two-bedroom score of 52 — Okay — with rent at 16% of income. That falls $43,906 short of the $117,000 Comfortable line, a reminder that the typical household here spends a larger share on housing than the Comfortable band allows. Statewide, the Wisconsin median household ($77,485) grades Okay on the state's own medians. Since a household can have two or more earners, compare it with a combined income rather than one paycheck.

All figures are pre-tax estimates from public data, not financial advice.