Check-it:"The study says you’ll need to work some extra hours if you want that nice home. To afford a two-bedroom rental home in Missouri, NLIHC says that you need to make $22.19 an hour, while working 59 hours a week to afford it. "In Kansas, you’ll need to be making $21.70 an hour according to the study, while working a whopping 120 hours per week. "If you want to live in a modest one-bedroom Missouri rental at a fair market rate, the study says you’ll have to work 49 hours a week. AOL: Do you make enough to afford a nice place in Kansas, Missouri?