Annual Income

[Scout101]

I'm 29, and in the 2nd to last bracket. The wife is 27, and same bracket. Annoyingly, she makes about a dollar an hour more than I do (i had overtaken her, but she just got a promotion and jumped over me again...).

The marriage part is recent, so haven't really gotten a good feel for living on dual incomes yet. Looking forward to figuring it out

 

[RoJoHen]

I don't know how a family could live on $37k! My wife and I pull in about $100,000/year between the two of us and we just tread water. Albeit, property prices are VERY high here. Our $1400 sq*ft townhouse is $300k by itself... nothing special and we both drive modest cars, nothing even remotely extravagant. We run on a tight budget, we aren't hurting by eating Ramen every night, but I can't even imagine living on even half of that... we'd be renting a box on the side of the road in these parts

Yikes, I'd hate to live where you are! Sounds way too expensive. My friends just bought a brand new 3-bedroom house with an acre of land for $150K.

I could easily find a very nice house around here for about $70K.

Hell, I'm renting a 2-bedroom house right now for only $500/month (and I have a roommate, so I'm only paying $250).

 

[Holdfast]

She used to invite me for tea.

The thread has taken a surreal - and disturbing - turn...!

The marriage part is recent, so haven't really gotten a good feel for living on dual incomes yet. Looking forward to figuring it out

Enjoy it for a while before you begin breeding.

Being DINKYs gives you lots of disposable to have fun with!

 

[Scout101]

Yikes, I'd hate to live where you are! Sounds way too expensive. My friends just bought a brand new 3-bedroom house with an acre of land for $150K.

I could easily find a very nice house around here for about $70K.

Hell, I'm renting a 2-bedroom house right now for only $500/month (and I have a roommate, so I'm only paying $250).

Yeah, that's abnormally low. Then again, it's middle America, things are a lot cheaper in the Flyover states. Pick a coast, and the prices go to that level. That's about what I paid for my house in 2006...

Enjoy it for a while before you begin breeding.

Being DINKYs gives you lots of disposable to have fun with!

Yeah, not in a hurry. Gonna enjoy it for a couple years, travel a bit, and get stuff paid down/off, then see about a kid or two then. No huge rush...

 

[RoJoHen]

Yikes, I'd hate to live where you are! Sounds way too expensive. My friends just bought a brand new 3-bedroom house with an acre of land for $150K.

I could easily find a very nice house around here for about $70K.

Hell, I'm renting a 2-bedroom house right now for only $500/month (and I have a roommate, so I'm only paying $250).

Yeah, that's abnormally low. Then again, it's middle America,

That's why I'm okay staying here a while.

 

[iguana_tonante]

The thread has taken a surreal - and disturbing - turn...!

That's kind of my specialty.

 

[DBR]

One hundred TRILLION dollars!!!

MUAH! HAHA MUAHAHAHA! MUAH!

(what?)

 

[Holdfast]

Yikes, I'd hate to live where you are! Sounds way too expensive.

Yeah, that's abnormally low. Then again, it's middle America, things are a lot cheaper in the Flyover states. Pick a coast, and the prices go to that level.

It really does make a difference where you live, and it's very pertinent to the discussion of annual income.

My part of the UK has some pretty high house prices. The prices below are average prices across the city (so not just the expensive areas) at the close of the last quarter. I've tried to include the American English closest terminology, as far as I understand it:

Detached (single-family): £375k (~$600k)
Semi-Detached (twin-house): £384 (~$615k)
Terraced (row-house): £363k (~$580k)
Flat (apartment/condominium): £249k (~$400k)

And this is AFTER the recession's effect on house prices (they're still about 10% off their peaks I'd say). For lulz comparison, the town I grew up in currently has an average detached house price of £527k ($845k).

 

[Jetfire]

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[RAMA]

Its funny a few years ago on this BB there was a thread that compared income to the avg worldwide, and I made more than 88% of the planet...however in my state, I'm considered middle of the road...NJ is so damn expensive.

RAMA

 

[Candlelight]

...then see about a kid or two then. No huge rush...

Yeah, it's all very well and good to say that, like my wife and I did... then we had twins and it all went out the window...

 

[RoJoHen]

...then see about a kid or two then. No huge rush...

Yeah, it's all very well and good to say that, like my wife and I did... then we had twins and it all went out the window...

At the end of this year, my sister will be graduating college, and my parents will no longer have any tuition payments to worry about. They told me the other day, "It's like we're getting a raise!"

 

[Starbreaker]

I make about $10,000 a year. Without my student loans, I wouldn't able to pay my bills. Living in a college town is really expensive.

$225 rent
$50 power bill
$30 water/sewage/garbage
$15 internet
$40 car insurance
$100+ gas

then there's groceries and dining out and books for school and car repairs and every time I have to pay $5 to send my student transcript in with a resume. It adds up.

 

[RoJoHen]

Living in a college town is really expensive.

I have had the opposite experience. Living here is cheap as hell, especially when you get closer to the college.

 

[Starbreaker]

Living in a college town is really expensive.

I have had the opposite experience. Living here is cheap as hell, especially when you get closer to the college.

I just moved into a house that's cheaper, but they jack the prices way up on the apartments around campus.

 

[Candlelight]

Living in a college town is really expensive.

I have had the opposite experience. Living here is cheap as hell, especially when you get closer to the college.

Well, if it's anything like my town - in which the population jumps by 25% during the university year - it's very cheap to find a flat but education funding is means tested so students have sod all money to begin with.

 

[Gryffindorian]

Regardless of how much money I make, I can't seem to get enough of it.

 

[Lindley]

I think I make more than most of you. I'm not sure why though, just lucky I guess.

 

[Timby]

At my current job and hours of employment (it's only 20 hours a week at the moment, but at $20 an hour), I make $19,200 before taxes; my wife makes around $24,000 before taxes.

 

[Sector 7]

I'm going to refrain from publishing that information on the internet.

I vote None of Your Damn Business. Why would any sane person publish such information online? I value my privacy and the OP should, as well. May I start a thread titled "What is your bank account number?" or "What is your Social Security Number?"? Where does it end...?