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Posted: 10/24/2023 12:51:34 PM EDT
[#1]
Quote HistoryQuoted: Many of us started out poor. Being poor, is no excuse for being Communist. Don't Covet your neighbors. Work harder than them. Hold Yourself to a higher standard. If you give in, to all the lowest base instincts of human nature, you've already lost. Demand more of yourself. Nobody is coming to the rescue. Despite the empty promises, it's just You, vs. the Dog Eat Dog world. Yep. Lived in a 3 room hunting cabin for a while with a dirt floor kitchen. Literally dirt poor. |
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Posted: 10/24/2023 12:51:53 PM EDT
[#2]
Quote HistoryQuoted: I would if the stock market was worth a damn for the rest of us that ain't in the Big Club. Combine it with the fed trying to start a little deflation and I've started moving to a higher ratio of short term assets. |
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Posted: 10/24/2023 12:53:14 PM EDT
[#3]
Quote HistoryQuoted: Just as I suspected, most of Arfcom pulls down some major bucks. At least when posting in GD. This attitude has always fascinated me. You think they are Lying? Which ones? To What End? I guess it’s like if 20% of Arf claimed to be 8 feet tall… I’m only 6’ and Everyone I know is 6’6 or shorter. Sooo … ….... Logically, these Internet characters must be lying… |
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Posted: 10/24/2023 12:53:56 PM EDT
[#4]
I won’t hit $30k this year and the wife might hit $25k.
We did go another $800k in debt this year! |
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Posted: 10/24/2023 12:56:54 PM EDT
[#5]
Quote HistoryQuoted: Yep. Lived in a 3 room hunting cabin for a while with a dirt floor kitchen. Literally dirt poor. Our poor old place needed some major repairs. It was nice when we finally got airconditioning at night. Texas is hot without it! Thankfully we never truly had dirt floors. |
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Posted: 10/24/2023 12:56:56 PM EDT
[#6]
Quote HistoryQuoted: Yep. Lived in a 3 room hunting cabin for a while with a dirt floor kitchen. Literally dirt poor. Quote HistoryQuoted: Quoted: Many of us started out poor. Being poor, is no excuse for being Communist. Don't Covet your neighbors. Work harder than them. Hold Yourself to a higher standard. If you give in, to all the lowest base instincts of human nature, you've already lost. Demand more of yourself. Nobody is coming to the rescue. Despite the empty promises, it's just You, vs. the Dog Eat Dog world. Yep. Lived in a 3 room hunting cabin for a while with a dirt floor kitchen. Literally dirt poor. I need to do another thread on this soon. Many of us literally Have pulled ourselves up by our bootstraps. Those are stories which need to be told. |
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Posted: 10/24/2023 12:57:31 PM EDT
[#7]
Quote HistoryQuoted: I won't hit $30k this year and the wife might hit $25k. We did go another $800k in debt this year! |
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Posted: 10/24/2023 12:58:02 PM EDT
[#8]
If you include company 401k match I'll finish 2023 at ~ $315,000
Salary - $190,000 BNS - $45,000 RSU- $50,000 401k match - $25,000 Div - $5,000 |
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Posted: 10/24/2023 12:59:46 PM EDT
[#9]
You guys are getting paid?
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Posted: 10/24/2023 1:00:15 PM EDT
[#10]
Quote HistoryQuoted: https://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/14563/IMG_8662-3002675.jpg About 20% of the country makes over 150k "Household" vs "Individual" |
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Posted: 10/24/2023 1:01:34 PM EDT
[#11]
I'm towards the tail end of Gen X and been pulling in 6 figures in base salary since ~2010 and am double that now. Doesn't include benefits, performance bonuses, 401k match, etc.
I have not had to deal with unemployment since ~2002; been in the same industry since that time (2002-present) and have not job-hopped to bump salary; simply moved "up" within the same company (since 2005). |
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Posted: 10/24/2023 1:02:21 PM EDT
[#12]
Quote HistoryQuoted: 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.  Maybe post less doomer bullshit and spend time upskilling? ¯\_(?)_/¯ |
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Posted: 10/24/2023 1:02:39 PM EDT
[#13]
Yes
More than $150k |
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Posted: 10/24/2023 1:02:44 PM EDT
[#14]
Quote HistoryQuoted: I don't work from a desk, highest schooling outside of .mil schools was High School, I'm already over $150k for the year and that's not including my Navy pension. I move big heavy stuff for a living. Plenty of blue collar guys hitting 150k+ these days https://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/119852/IMG_20231021_120228174_HDR-3002154.jpg Quote HistoryQuoted: Quoted: 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. I move big heavy stuff for a living. Plenty of blue collar guys hitting 150k+ these days https://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/119852/IMG_20231021_120228174_HDR-3002154.jpg Installing those very same big heavy things is fairly lucrative as well.  |
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Posted: 10/24/2023 1:04:02 PM EDT
[#15]
cleared? yes.
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Posted: 10/24/2023 1:04:28 PM EDT
[#16]
 I don’t even clear $100k. |
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Posted: 10/24/2023 1:05:23 PM EDT
[#17]
Only because of a one time lithium mineral rights deal. Companies are throwing money around left and right.
Regular work self employed, no benefits other than my pay. |
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Posted: 10/24/2023 1:06:35 PM EDT
[#18]
Quote HistoryQuoted: I won’t hit $30k this year and the wife might hit $25k. We did go another $800k in debt this year! Geez how'd you manage to get anoter 800k in the hole? |
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Posted: 10/24/2023 1:07:21 PM EDT
[#19]
Quote HistoryQuoted: wakeboarder thread lol... |
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Posted: 10/24/2023 1:08:11 PM EDT
[#20]
Quote HistoryQuoted: I need to do another thread on this soon. Many of us literally Have pulled ourselves up by our bootstraps. Those are stories which need to be told. My SS statement tells the tale. 93 graduated highschool. Fucked around until joining Navy in 1998. Left Navy 2007. I don't mind sharing, especially since there are the usual naysayers in the thread.  |
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Posted: 10/24/2023 1:11:59 PM EDT
[#21]
Quote HistoryQuoted: Geez how'd you manage to get anoter 800k in the hole? Quote HistoryQuoted: Quoted: I won’t hit $30k this year and the wife might hit $25k. We did go another $800k in debt this year! Geez how'd you manage to get anoter 800k in the hole? I'm guessing farming. |
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Posted: 10/24/2023 1:13:57 PM EDT
[#22]
Just a bit over that. West coast LE has its perks.
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Posted: 10/24/2023 1:15:33 PM EDT
[#23]
Yes
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Posted: 10/24/2023 1:17:07 PM EDT
[#24]
Started my own business so I must be rich LOL.
I'm actually making less this year than last year...and last year was nowhere near 150K but that's fine. If the business works out then I'll be OK in the long run otherwise I can always be a door greater at Wal-Mart or one of those guys who runs you to work when you drop your car off at the stealership. |
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Posted: 10/24/2023 1:18:13 PM EDT
[#25]
Quote HistoryQuoted: Geez how'd you manage to get anoter 800k in the hole? Quote HistoryQuoted: Quoted: I won’t hit $30k this year and the wife might hit $25k. We did go another $800k in debt this year! Geez how'd you manage to get anoter 800k in the hole? Bought a business that pays them $15/hr but has profit sharing |
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Posted: 10/24/2023 1:18:18 PM EDT
[#26]
No. But I will make the most I have ever made to date.
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Posted: 10/24/2023 1:19:35 PM EDT
[#27]
Quote HistoryQuoted: 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 Mortgage free? |
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Posted: 10/24/2023 1:20:29 PM EDT
[#28]
Quote HistoryQuoted: I'm towards the tail end of Gen X and been pulling in 6 figures in base salary since ~2010 and am double that now. Doesn't include benefits, performance bonuses, 401k match, etc. I have not had to deal with unemployment since ~2002; been in the same industry since that time (2002-present) and have not job-hopped to bump salary; simply moved "up" within the same company (since 2005). You make 12 figures base? 
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Posted: 10/24/2023 1:21:49 PM EDT
[#29]
I have mailbox money that comes in yearly that hits that total? Does that count? My work pay is under that
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Posted: 10/24/2023 1:22:34 PM EDT
[#30]
Quote HistoryQuoted: I need to do another thread on this soon. Many of us literally Have pulled ourselves up by our bootstraps. Those are stories which need to be told. In 2011-2012 I was working as an ATM repairman making about $30k a year. Then I sold all my belongings and rode to San Francisco on my motorcycle without any job or housing leads and spent 3 months crashing couches and sleeping in flea-infested hostels while taking any interview I could wrangle to break into the tech industry. By late 2015 I had made it into Google as a software engineer. |
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Posted: 10/24/2023 1:22:41 PM EDT
[#31]
Quote HistoryQuoted: 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. I’m right with you. Wife makes 120k salary and I work part time remodeling/handyman work and taking the kids to school and back. Just lined up a 11k job starting in January so it’s a good start for next year. |
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Posted: 10/24/2023 1:23:46 PM EDT
[#32]
Quote HistoryQuoted: I have mailbox money that comes in yearly that hits that total? Does that count? My work pay is under that Similarly with personnel businesses, go back to the amount thay is income according the the government. |
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Posted: 10/24/2023 1:27:33 PM EDT
[#33]
In my time here I’ve noticed two things. Some GDrs are liars. Two, some GDrs are out of touch with reality. It was mentioned in another thread the other day about how easy it is to make 50 Dollars an hour. Maybe some of you but the majority of us will never see that much money. I am making 35 an hour and in my circle and area that is really good money.
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Posted: 10/24/2023 1:28:45 PM EDT
[#34]
Quote HistoryQuoted: 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. This is a key factor in this thread. I would rather live in an area where the house cost 250k and the job was paying 85k.... than live where the house was 750k and I was making 200k. It is not that much different on paper but the taxes and other stuff once you go above 50k really start to add up and not just take home taxes either. |
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Posted: 10/24/2023 1:30:14 PM EDT
[#35]
Twenty years ago, I was a poor enlistedman making $30k/yr. Today, I make more than six times that. Wife makes slightly less than I do. As soon as my old house sells, I will have zero bills. I am very blessed for the path God has provided.
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Posted: 10/24/2023 1:32:32 PM EDT
[#36]
Quote HistoryQuoted: $124k salary $10k 401k match $8k bonus Just under your $150 mark but still under so I marked no Shell, BP, or Exxon? |
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Posted: 10/24/2023 1:33:30 PM EDT
[#37]
Quote HistoryQuoted: Be nice to add an age range for context. 25-30, 30-35, etc. As well as the field they are in and if they work for the gov't at some level, or if they work union or private company. Some real data mining. |
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Posted: 10/24/2023 1:35:20 PM EDT
[#38]
I'd better.
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Posted: 10/24/2023 1:36:19 PM EDT
[#39]
Meh $200K is 2013's $100K. I sure don't feel rich.
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Posted: 10/24/2023 1:37:03 PM EDT
[#40]
Nope lol less than 90k maybe 87 ish after 401k match but it's only going to go down without the 1st year sign on bonus.
I probably won't see over 80 again until I get a new job with the vibes I'm getting (use me till I move on/revolving door) |
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Posted: 10/24/2023 1:37:51 PM EDT
[#41]
Yes.
Base $147k 401K Match is 9% so ~$13,250 My bonus will be over $60k. The household will be over $350k. We aren't struggling by any means but the money sure isn't going as far as it used to. Edit: Oh and I am 6'5" also... |
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Posted: 10/24/2023 1:39:12 PM EDT
[#42]
Of course I will. As a single man I couldn’t imagine trying to live on less than 150k and with a family I would want at least double.
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Posted: 10/24/2023 1:40:30 PM EDT
[#43]
Quote HistoryQuoted: Meh $200K is 2013's $100K. I sure don't feel rich. Yep. 200k-500k take home disappears fast especially if you are looking into building businesses without going to the bank and getting reamed by loan interest now. Same probably goes for million. And so on and so forth |
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Posted: 10/24/2023 1:41:31 PM EDT
[#44]
Quote HistoryQuoted: Of course I will. As a single man I couldn’t imagine trying to live on less than 150k and with a family I would want at least double.  In fucking Oklahoma? It would be easy as hell to survive on less than 100K a year in OK as a single man. |
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Posted: 10/24/2023 1:42:09 PM EDT
[#45]
Quote HistoryQuoted: In fucking Oklahoma? It would be easy as hell to survive on less than 100K a year in OK as a single man. Quote HistoryQuoted: Quoted: Of course I will. As a single man I couldn’t imagine trying to live on less than 150k and with a family I would want at least double. In fucking Oklahoma? It would be easy as hell to survive on less than 100K a year in OK as a single man. Sarcasm bro |
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Posted: 10/24/2023 1:42:14 PM EDT
[#46]
Quote HistoryQuoted: Meh $200K is 2013's $100K. I sure don't feel rich. And yet you're better off than about 90% of the country. |
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Posted: 10/24/2023 1:42:16 PM EDT
[#47]
No. Not even close.
Next year however 
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Posted: 10/24/2023 1:42:50 PM EDT
[#48]
Quote HistoryQuoted: Sarcasm bro Quote HistoryQuoted: Quoted: Quoted: Of course I will. As a single man I couldn’t imagine trying to live on less than 150k and with a family I would want at least double. In fucking Oklahoma? It would be easy as hell to survive on less than 100K a year in OK as a single man. Sarcasm bro You're probably right. But OTOH, this is GD, so you never know... |
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Posted: 10/24/2023 1:43:46 PM EDT
[#49]
Quote HistoryQuoted: <snip> We aren't struggling by any means but the money sure isn't going as far as it used to. |
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Posted: 10/24/2023 1:44:54 PM EDT
[#50]
Quote HistoryQuoted: Why? Tax brackets suck. Making estimated payments as a 2 w2 household is absolutely terrible. |
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