Here's the salary you have to earn to buy a home in 17 major US cities

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San Francisco

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San Francisco continues to require the highest income in the US.

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Buying a home is only getting more expensive.

Mortgage website HSH.com has updated its estimate of how much annual income a household would need to buy a home in major metro areas in the US, according to second-quarter 2015 data.

Prices have increased across the board.

The site looked at median home prices from the National Association of Realtors, along with interest rates for common 30-year, fixed-rate mortgages and property taxes, and insurance costs, to figure out how much money it would take to pay a median-priced home's mortgage, taxes, and insurance in each city - and how much you would have to earn to afford it.

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Salaries listed are rounded to the nearest $500.