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Posted: 10/24/2023 11:59:53 AM EDT
Given all the talk about six figure incomes not keeping up with inflation, and the threads on high six figure truckers and tradesmen, I thought this poll would be interesting.

Include only your income, not your spouse's. If you get a 401k match, include the match.
Link Posted: 10/24/2023 12:01:52 PM EDT
[#1]
Voted no. My spouse clears six figures barely but that is with two jobs. Combined we make over 150.  We live in a low cost rural  living area though.
Link Posted: 10/24/2023 12:02:13 PM EDT
[#2]
$124k salary
$10k 401k match
$8k bonus

Just under your $150 mark but still under so I marked no
Link Posted: 10/24/2023 12:02:43 PM EDT
[#3]
Not even close.
Link Posted: 10/24/2023 12:02:52 PM EDT
[#4]
Data mining thread!


(but yes )
Link Posted: 10/24/2023 12:03:34 PM EDT
[#5]
Already did, what do I win?
Link Posted: 10/24/2023 12:03:57 PM EDT
[#6]
with LTI, bonus and 401K match, maybe just barely.
More likely $145ish.
Link Posted: 10/24/2023 12:04:16 PM EDT
[#7]
No overtime should have made about $84,620 with OT this year I’ll be around $88,800 to $89,130.

The county matches 6.20%
Link Posted: 10/24/2023 12:04:45 PM EDT
[#8]
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Data mining thread!


(but yes )
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Already did, what do I win?
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Link Posted: 10/24/2023 12:05:05 PM EDT
[#9]
Nope
Link Posted: 10/24/2023 12:05:07 PM EDT
[#10]
No. Just to clarify business retained earnings don't count? Not that it matters this year anyway.
Link Posted: 10/24/2023 12:05:43 PM EDT
[#11]
Nope.

All your taxpayer dollars lining my pockets, though
Link Posted: 10/24/2023 12:05:55 PM EDT
[#12]
Link Posted: 10/24/2023 12:06:10 PM EDT
[#13]
Link Posted: 10/24/2023 12:06:14 PM EDT
[#14]
Trying to stay under that.
ETA: With match, over.
Link Posted: 10/24/2023 12:07:07 PM EDT
[#15]
wakeboarder thread
Link Posted: 10/24/2023 12:07:07 PM EDT
[#16]
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Trying to stay under that.
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Why?
Link Posted: 10/24/2023 12:07:18 PM EDT
[#17]
Link Posted: 10/24/2023 12:07:23 PM EDT
[#18]
Nope, I'm a stay at home dad. But my wife is a pharmacist for the VA. Next year might be over $150k for her between the federal employee COLA and the step/grade increase. And before you start talking about how all fed employees are shit and don't deserve their salaries, she is a clinical pharmacist who helps vets live longer and watches out for them. One if the few jobs I think are actually worth it.
Link Posted: 10/24/2023 12:07:57 PM EDT
[#19]
I wont, but she might.
Link Posted: 10/24/2023 12:08:21 PM EDT
[#20]
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https://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/14563/IMG_8662-3002675.jpg

About 20% of the country makes over 150k
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That's gross household. Most people in decent jobs with a working spouse do that.
Link Posted: 10/24/2023 12:08:26 PM EDT
[#21]
I have never made 100K, no less 150K.
Link Posted: 10/24/2023 12:08:27 PM EDT
[#22]
Got let go. So no.
Link Posted: 10/24/2023 12:08:40 PM EDT
[#23]
I'm 27 and in rural Alabama.

I'll make about $80k after overtime and bonus, base pay is $74k. My wife should make $68k.

Not even close.
Link Posted: 10/24/2023 12:08:40 PM EDT
[#24]
between two jobs, my IT day job and playing poker nights and weekends.
Link Posted: 10/24/2023 12:08:41 PM EDT
[#25]
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Voted no. My spouse clears six figures barely but that is with two jobs. Combined we make over 150.  We live in a low cost rural  living area though.
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I'm working two jobs and my spouse stays home. I'll be a little over $150k this year, also in a relatively low cost rural area.

I'll probably be a little under next year but have more free time.
Link Posted: 10/24/2023 12:08:53 PM EDT
[#26]
No, but ask me again next year.  
Link Posted: 10/24/2023 12:09:34 PM EDT
[#27]
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Why?
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If I go over, I become a "highly compensated employee" which means they limit my 401k contributions next year, which means I can shield(or at least defer) less income from taxation.
Link Posted: 10/24/2023 12:09:46 PM EDT
[#28]
If I could get these cars out for sale I'd be getting there.

My goal is to get to making $300,000 a year within 5 years slinging cars. I'll need to hire some help though.
Link Posted: 10/24/2023 12:09:56 PM EDT
[#29]
I answered no as I will be $356 short of the threshold per OPs calculation.
Link Posted: 10/24/2023 12:10:22 PM EDT
[#30]
Anyone that doesn’t earn over 150k a year in base wage needs to get off GD right now.

No place for such peasants!!
Link Posted: 10/24/2023 12:10:29 PM EDT
[#31]
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About 20% of the country makes over 150k
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That's also household income. Many of those are two income housholds.
Link Posted: 10/24/2023 12:10:57 PM EDT
[#32]
2023:
$177k salary
$28k stock (sold at vest)
50% 401k match

2024:
$177k salary
$97k stock (assuming current price)
50% 401k match

Wife stays at home with the children.
Link Posted: 10/24/2023 12:11:43 PM EDT
[#33]
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If I go over, I become a "highly compensated employee" which means they limit my 401k contributions next year, which means I can shield(or at least defer) less income from taxation.
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You can't FSA, HSA, or other pretax spending get around it?

Eta: looks like nope. Are you in the top 20% in pay at your company?
Link Posted: 10/24/2023 12:12:26 PM EDT
[#34]
Quoted:
Given all the talk about six figure incomes not keeping up with inflation, and the threads on high six figure truckers and tradesmen, I thought this poll would be interesting.

Include only your income, not your spouse's. If you get a 401k match, include the match.
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Why do you mention "high six figure" jobs and then draw the line at 150k? Wouldn't high six figures be more like 700k? 150k is barely into six figures.
Link Posted: 10/24/2023 12:13:02 PM EDT
[#35]
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2023:
$177k salary
$28k stock (sold at vest)
50% 401k match

2024:
$177k salary
$97k stock (assuming current price)
50% 401k match

Wife stays at home with the children.
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Any tips to get into your line of work?
Link Posted: 10/24/2023 12:13:08 PM EDT
[#36]
Yes over 150k so is my wife.
Link Posted: 10/24/2023 12:15:08 PM EDT
[#37]
No, not even with 401k match, I'm just a blue collar POS.  

I like these threads though where everyone making over 150k sitting at a desk assumes everyone who's not is a lazy retard.
Link Posted: 10/24/2023 12:15:26 PM EDT
[#38]
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Why do you mention "high six figure" jobs and then draw the line at 150k? Wouldn't high six figures be more like 700k? 150k is barely into six figures.
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Yeah, I didn't word that the best. Probably should have said something like near $200k tradesmen.

I know very few people who are pulling a true high six figures annually.
Link Posted: 10/24/2023 12:15:33 PM EDT
[#39]
I already have, I also took several months off to help my wife recover from surgery.

I’m very fortunate, but it took a decade of working a lot for very little to get to this point.
Link Posted: 10/24/2023 12:16:15 PM EDT
[#40]
Not today Mr. IRS man. Not today.
Link Posted: 10/24/2023 12:16:17 PM EDT
[#41]
65k base
90k commission
10k bonus
9900 401k match

62k wife salary
Link Posted: 10/24/2023 12:16:51 PM EDT
[#42]
I made about $17,000 and my wife is around $75,000 at a job she loves.
My days are creative for the most part..
I'm sitting having coffee and trying to find pure helium so I can finish tig welding a cast aluminum pto casing for my dumptruck. Filled up vats for my 3d printers, printing a HO scale crane today. Run by a friend's house later to help him change a hydraulic hose on his backhoe.

Debt free is how we stay comfortable. Took us years to figure that out..lol
Link Posted: 10/24/2023 12:16:58 PM EDT
[#43]
WTF I won't even make half that. No wonder this website hates "that thar socialism talk" you're all a bunch of rich boomers.
Link Posted: 10/24/2023 12:17:10 PM EDT
[#44]
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You can't FSA, HSA, or other pretax spending get around it?

Eta: looks like nope. Are you in the top 20% in pay at your company?
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Nope, it's strictly based on how much they pay me.
Link Posted: 10/24/2023 12:17:25 PM EDT
[#45]
I make 147k, wife makes 154k.

If I count my VA disability as income then yes my total is around 175k.
Link Posted: 10/24/2023 12:19:02 PM EDT
[#46]
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wakeboarder thread
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Link Posted: 10/24/2023 12:19:10 PM EDT
[#47]
Data mining all the things!

I should pull about $255k by end of year.
Link Posted: 10/24/2023 12:20:03 PM EDT
[#48]
No way.  Never have made over 60k  ever.   Retired now and making  about 35k.   And I'm very happy with that.
Link Posted: 10/24/2023 12:20:55 PM EDT
[#49]
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https://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/14563/IMG_8662-3002675.jpg

About 20% of the country makes over 150k
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That's household, Aimless, which Jacufrost was excluding.

This isn't a cheap hobby.  And its participants (plus discussion boards in general) skew older.  Older people have had longer to build wealth.

Some of you have some serious cash tied up in it.  Not surprised, considering all the above, that this population skews higher with income and wealth, than the US population as a whole.
Link Posted: 10/24/2023 12:21:17 PM EDT
[#50]
Personally, no, but I'm not "working" right now, either.  I'll earn anywhere from 40-80k as a stay-at-home dad with two kids.
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