DC incomes not as high as claimed by DCUM posters

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:What?! People are not as wealthy as they claim here? Next thing you are going to tell me that not everyone is as beautiful as they say they are in their posts!

Stop discriminating against me because I'm fit.

[Anonymous]

IKR. Look, incomes here are insane. Every time I think about my income, I shock myself. It's high. Never in my life did I believe I'd become a millionaire and have an income of 1/2 M yr. (after bonus but not including income from assets) Never.But here I am.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:There's both selection effect (people who read this are richer than average, and of those, the richer ones are more likely to post) and some lying. But I think it's more selection. I can see why some people would lie in real life, but what's the motivation to lie on an anonymous site?

Is this your first day on the internet?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:
Look for yourself.

https://dqydj.com/income-by-state/?fbclid=IwZXh0bgNhZW0CMTEAAR2RhSZec-buoxaP5mJgpRxBXxIEEqxLYRtZnsjIr1EfhpOegktt__8e8FE_aem_AcOc8i68QQgbaGnMBf-Ps79icoEMiYg1T4h6E_Sff_nubP7NRZavL0Xg0R3Ado0K0-D9vYWwWngEoYoTLq5S_CYD

[Anonymous]

What's the controversy?

My measly 150k is only 87th percentile for Maryland. 100k is 70th percentile, meaning 30% of Marylanders make more than 100k....

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:What?! People are not as wealthy as they claim here? Next thing you are going to tell me that not everyone is as beautiful as they say they are in their posts!

Impossible! Everyone here is in their 40s but constantly gets mistaken for being in their 20s.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Yes. A good number of people using total compensation instead of salary in these posts. That said, you are probably dealing with people in that nexus of top 5% between NoVa, DC, and Maryland instead of just DC.

Why wouldn't they use total compensation? At the Sr. Director/VP level and up nearly 1/3 to 1/2 of compensation is variable income (bonuses, stock), but it is income nonetheless.

Np, my total compensation is 223k, but my salary is 167k. I guess I missed the memo, but are most people responding with the total comp number when they state their salary?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:What?! People are not as wealthy as they claim here? Next thing you are going to tell me that not everyone is as beautiful as they say they are in their posts!

Stop discriminating against me because I'm fit.

I saw what you did there. Lol. Two posts this week does seem like a record.