Sharp Average income drop

[Lacherlich 0]

When playing a city, the average income gets quite high, so like the average income is around 70k... then it begins to drop and suddenly ends up at 20k. This doesn't make sense since on the graph that show jobs and population, the high wealth residents are increasing in number and the opposite is happening to low wealth residents. It's not like ive zoned huge areas of residential for low wealth people to move into so my average income is decreased- any ideas?

[simmax 0]

I don't think that the average income graph is useful and realistic. The money unit in the game has no real, fixed value (the price of different buildings isn't always coherent), and I don't think that a low average income affects your city at all. What is important is the number of R$, R$$ and R$$$ in your city.

[Peorth 17]

Actually, the average income has quite a large effect on your city. Plainly put, the higher your average income, the higher your residential tax revenues. A wealthy city will have R