So after taxes/401(k) (bare minimum) we had about $6k a month to play with. However, salaries for anesthesiologists can … [–][deleted] 116 points117 points118 points 3 years ago (10 children). Popcorn for the popcorn throne! [–]KEM10"All for All!" Lanham, Maryland: University Press of America, 1987. Edit: I am aware that this article is completely out of touch with reality. A) pays ~150,000/yr. Well if you just start eating 100 avocado toasts a day, that's only 220 days of abstinence, which is less than a year! Rendered by PID 19062 on r2-app-06fdb5f632a8fd2f5 at 2021-02-23 13:41:15.916869+00:00 running 81a1eda country code: IT. [–]spartan6222 13 points14 points15 points 3 years ago (0 children). Hey that's two avacado on toasts a day every day for 30 years, totes reasonable. [–]Ikea_Manis a sad banned boi 7 points8 points9 points 3 years ago (0 children), [–]JoshSidekick 2 points3 points4 points 3 years ago (0 children). [–]BrobearBerbil 24 points25 points26 points 3 years ago (4 children). Hooooo boy I am so elated to be gettin' the ol' snip snip, lemme tell you. Users who break rules may receive a warning via PM or a distinguished comment. -The Free Marketeers 19 points20 points21 points 3 years ago (4 children). Right. None of this would have ever happened if we were all subsistence farmers in a glorious anarchist utopia. Living In NYC On A $150K Salary. Money Diaries. [–]RegressToTheMean 37 points38 points39 points 3 years ago (3 children). I only pay about 15,000 a year to keep my two kids in daycare. I would ask the boyfriend if your rent could be split proportionally to income as opposed to equally. 1,564 open jobs for 150k. [–]Gyper 1064 points1065 points1066 points 3 years ago (284 children). I just moved to Brooklyn from DC as it made sense to not live in a shoebox with my boyfriend in manhattan. The King adds value with his legislative role in government. *shudders*. I got into wall street out of college. Not many people are interested in raising a family in Baltimore. Sure during internship and residency, but after that can't you just say no to insane hours? [–][deleted] 52 points53 points54 points 3 years ago (0 children). Never post here again. [–]These-Days 4 points5 points6 points 3 years ago (0 children), It's worse in Vancouver I'd imagine, due to Chinese investors, [–]mauricemosss 5 points6 points7 points 3 years ago* (1 child). Like "oh if you made 5 grand more you'd be upper class! This is what you want. Not to mention that he'd get 28% back of whatever he put into the 401k. I have no idea why his options are 2 fields at two different ends of the spectrum. I live in Sydney, which is a fairly expensive place to live. I had to make sure the URL was not The Onion when I started reading that. Well the videos are also really good. [–][deleted] 81 points82 points83 points 3 years ago (4 children), Reminds of a video I saw about people living in poverty. People on this board are going to see $500k and like so many med students think "Hey I could suffer a bit and be doing really well later." [–]BrobearBerbil 22 points23 points24 points 3 years ago (0 children). I was born and raised there and it really ISN'T the greatest city in the world, about 75% of the people who live there are miserable due to the sky-high cost of rent/living. Get an ad-free experience with special benefits, and directly support Reddit. A six figure salary can range from $100,000 to $999,999, so I figure I’d start on the low end for two people. What if it fucks up your marriage? The PM is just a rubber stamp. You can enter in different numbers to figure out the threshold. [–]RegressToTheMean 10 points11 points12 points 3 years ago (1 child). Really, the only industry in the area that pays that much is automotive. He is in his 60s, has a family business that makes 7 figures in profit and still everyday at 6am leaves the home for the hospital. The £150k is straight up savings / entertainment. The $150k after tax calculation includes certain defaults to provide a standard tax calculation, for example the State of … This was right after the housing crash, right? Admin crap will usually extend your week to 45 to 50 hrs. So we're down to $1200. I didn't have money until I moved out of California but I wouldn't have had my career if I stayed in the South during the dotcom boom. 500k is a very nice paycheck. [–]aalabrash 6 points7 points8 points 3 years ago (0 children), Yeah people pay out the dick to move to hoco or moco to get their kids a half decent education, [–]CHARLIE_CANT_READ 2 points3 points4 points 3 years ago (0 children). Salaries posted anonymously by Reddit employees. If you're paying 4.5k per month in SF you're doing it wrong. We'd get our week off and they'd stay in the hospital to grab cases! $150k is $12.5k per month. Probably whoever made the comic assumed that poor people wouldn't be reading the WSJ. And kids need things like new shoes, glasses, dentist appointments, etc. A lot are from rich as fuck families anyway. written by You. I once worked for a boss that made over 300k a year with a husband who made even more than that, and would constantly have to deposit money into her account as soon as she'd get a check because she overdrew. A bit of a schlep to the city however the comfort of not living paycheck to paycheck is totally worth it. [–][deleted] 333 points334 points335 points 3 years ago (51 children). 20 hot jobs that pay more than $150k. So yeah, no drama other than people coming here to point out how rich and entitled people who live in NYC are. And the few that did somehow manage even though they didn't have that innate love for the field, most hit the ceiling pretty quickly and never made the kind of money they were promised. seems to be mostly reasonable discussions of budgeting and which neighborhood is the best (which is typical in that sub), [–]CheshireC4tI am horrified by how normalized and accepted making a kid is 37 points38 points39 points 3 years ago (0 children). 31 points32 points33 points 3 years ago* (7 children). http://www.pewsocialtrends.org/interactives/middle-class-calculator/, Do not post, link to, or ask for personal information, Do not insult other users, flamewar, or flame bait, Do not /u/ summon users from linked threads, We enforce the spirit of the rules, not the letter, New accounts get no leeway and will be banned without warning for violating any of our rules. The highest tax bracket you even qualify for, at least currently, would be 28%, and a lot of your income would be taxed lower than that, plus 3 dependents = lots of tax breaks. That said, if you need the money for a serious reason [e.g. The difference between being a primary care physician (I assume A...) and a high-stress specialist is huge - would you really truly be happy and satisfied with either? Percentages are silly. [–][deleted] 62 points63 points64 points 3 years ago (3 children), pretty minimal drama in this thread. Until you decide to send them to private school and then you just mail the same checks somewhere else!! [–]sweetjaaaneObama doesnt exist there never actually was a black president 84 points85 points86 points 3 years ago (2 children), [–]duckvimes_undercover /r/conspiracy mod 4 points5 points6 points 3 years ago (1 child), [–]thebildo9000 4 points5 points6 points 3 years ago (0 children), [–]No_name_Johnson 16 points17 points18 points 3 years ago (0 children), [–]weedways 6 points7 points8 points 3 years ago (14 children), Wheres that? [–][deleted] 9 points10 points11 points 3 years ago (2 children), Thanks. If you're making 3 times the income, why would you work 40 years? Clearly the solution is to eat more avocado toast you little shit. The low-stress way to find your next 150k job opportunity is on SimplyHired. New 150k careers are added daily on SimplyHired.com. Dustin, age 28. The money/happiness relationship has exponentially diminishing returns. Press J to jump to the feed. Sleep ~3-8 hrs/night. When I lived around Gilroy for $800 I had a 2,000sqft house. In certain cities that is just not realistic and you'll find financially responsible people spending up to 50% of their salary on housing. It just isn't an option. Or is it just a self-fulfilling "other hospitals are offering 500k so we have to offer that too or we'll miss out on the best staff" thing. 30k! But there are plenty of ways to save money in a city that are not available in areas with small populations. High job stability. Hahaha I'm stealing this (if you don't mind...). 20% down 2 flat $367k (built in 2011) 6 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms 2200 sq ft Includes 2 parking spaces. (I doubt it.) [–]freebytes 8 points9 points10 points 3 years ago (0 children). I don't get why he'd have to work crazy overtime his whole career. To arrive at an "affordable" home price, we followed the guidelines of most lenders. Also I like how no one here read the tread where he uses $150k as a hypothetical combined household income and then someone replies showing how with taxes, bills and childcare costs, this adds up to a negative income. But with good budgeting skills you'd be fine, [–]BrobearBerbil 12 points13 points14 points 3 years ago (2 children). Kentucky average dentist salary: $154,230; How Much Do Dentists Make in Each State. [–]UncleMeat11I'm unaffected by bans 2 points3 points4 points 3 years ago (0 children). [–]MakingYouMadOld Bulls or young rogues of any species are often a hazard 2 points3 points4 points 3 years ago (2 children). Posted by 5 years ago. I am horrified by how normalized and accepted making a kid is. The trade off for me is I spent 1325 on an english basement studio in DC but I never had transportation costs (metro was also covered by work) and all utilities included so yea I may have been able to get more room and save farther away from DC for 800/1000 but then I would need a car + all those expenses and roommates. Plus there's the connections and suchlike you make. r/Philippines tries to mourn but others uses this chance to be racist. When those of us who make over $250k a year were going to be taxed an extra $400 a year to pay for desperately needed improvements in the Baltimore City schools there was a march against it in Annapolis. [–]RegressToTheMean 122 points123 points124 points 3 years ago (43 children). Players of the videogame Destiny 2 at /r/DTG are angry that a community manager is having fun in a game mode that they don't like, and they want him to stop playing with streamers in his free time. Still doable. Obviously New York is way more expensive than lots of places. If you think you can handle it but won't thrive in it, you'll just be burned out in under 10 years. With the lack of blue collar jobs, no real job (re)training, abysmal school systems, and lack of growth markets (although we're trying to entice tech companies to come) there isn't much hope it'll get better and it breaks my heart. I know it's scary how you can lose everything but they must have had no savings and blew their money but the video didn't go into that, [–]BrobearBerbil 55 points56 points57 points 3 years ago (3 children). By then my rate will go up and I'll probably have a promotion or two under my belt. Why is this assumed for all parties? [–]ghostofpennwast 11 points12 points13 points 3 years ago (3 children), She did it so you cod go to a grammer school, [–][deleted] 14 points15 points16 points 3 years ago (1 child). HOW ARE YOU DOING IT, [–]Buccaraynole 57 points58 points59 points 3 years ago (9 children). [–]weedways 24 points25 points26 points 3 years ago (1 child), Guess the Kings annual €6+ million salary has to come from somewhere, [–]AFakeNameWhy are you even alive. Maybe there's a third option, like research or teaching? You know how much money you have, what you have going for you, what you can do to save money and what you can spend it on. Can't go out to eat too often but I'm not drowning. We had a very small 1000 square foot home with no yard, so we only paid $2800 a month for that (we compromised on a 45 minute to one hour commute; we could have gotten closer for that price but it would have been a small apartment, or further out for a bigger place or cheaper if we were willing to suck up two hours of commuting.). That's a dealbreaker. Doesn't NYC have a problem with people buying property/housing as a way to stash cash which just leaves hundreds of places empty? Has nothing to do with a 2 bedroom house anywhere near a city in Victoria or NSW easily clearing ~1 million, or fairly stagnant wages. [–]hybridtheorist 12 points13 points14 points 3 years ago (0 children). Bad hours (70-100hr/wk), guaranteed emergencies at 3am on a weekly basis for next 40 yrs, high risk procedures. The UN states that white supremacy is a huge threat. [–]lossyvibrations 10 points11 points12 points 3 years ago (5 children). I'd agrue I have about 20x what any of my friends have in their savings, even those who still live with Mom and Dad. [–]Buccaraynole 19 points20 points21 points 3 years ago (0 children). I live in the shit hole valley of California. I think you should be more honest with yourself about what you really want to do. [–]HowDoMeEMT 27 points28 points29 points 3 years ago (2 children). Hell you don't even have to live in the city, New Jersey is a ferry ride away. 2 cents from an MD - I'd say you shouldn't take advice from people outside of the field. [–]I_AM_TARA 9 points10 points11 points 3 years ago (0 children). [–]seejurLol racism is not racism 20 points21 points22 points 3 years ago (7 children), My wife is already on that path. $150k isn't really going to make a reasonable dent in your student debt, you need to support a family member] then go with B. 32 points33 points34 points 3 years ago (2 children), For 650k you could hire a full time nanny ez, [–]SargeZTThe needs of the weenie outweigh the needs of the dude 28 points29 points30 points 3 years ago (1 child). And I would never be able to work as much as they do and I chose a much simpler specialty. For drama happening here, check out /r/subredditdramadrama, For meta discussion, check out /r/metasubredditdrama, For general internet drama, check out /r/internetdrama, for the nuances of these rules, please read the expanded ruleset. Start and/or they do and I have n't really found anything I like that Toronto. 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