Income can be kind of a touchy subject.
Sometimes we don't want to talk about how much money we make because we think it's no one else's business. We often think people will judge us in some way by the amount of money we bring home every couple of weeks. Whether or not that is entirely true is not important. We think it might be, so we err on the side of caution. Nevertheless, the numbers are out there, and when speaking about it in general, countywide terms, it becomes a little less personal.