The amount of life insurance that a married couple should own will depend on several factors.

Your individual incomes, your total amount of debt, whether you have children and how many, the things you want to use your life insurance to accomplish, and your budget will all enter in your calculations on how much life insurance to purchase.

You should a life insurance needs calculator to help you determine your actual life insurance needs, and then help you find the best pricing for the life insurance policies that best suit you and your spouse's insurance needs.