- See American Professional/Managerial middle class for a complete overview of the American middle classes.
The
upper middle class in the United States is a sociological concept referring to the
social group constituted by higher-status members of the
middle class. This is in contrast to the term
lower middle class, which refers to the group at the opposite end of the middle class scale. There is considerable debate as to how the upper middle class might be defined. According to
Max Weber, the upper middle class consists of well-educated professionals with graduate degrees and comfortable incomes.