No, it’s top 5% of US salaries. In DC area the number of men making 200k is much higher than 5%. It’s pretty much everyone past age 40, for example, and not a lot of money |
Everyone who lives on your block, perhaps. |
Why should she not require the top 1% if she grew up in these circles? I am a recent immigrant who moved here as a teenager. All my peers from back home ( all from UMC homes) who moved here before 25 make 200k with the exception of PhD holders in academia and myself ( I stayed home for almost a decade). Lawyers, doctors, engineers, public accountants, some pharmacists, some specialist nurses 15-20 years into their careers usually make 200k. PP is talking generalities, and she will know when to make exceptions to her rule. But at 43, if you come from an UMC background, your only excuse for not making 200k should be that it's not that important to you. If it's important to PP, why should she not require it from a partner? Some of you think women should get married to any Tom or Dick who shows up. It's better to be single than married to someone who does not share your worldview. |
You are using income as a litmus test of being a good dh. |
Marriage is a financial contract, partners should be compatible in all areas. If she wants a house keeper after being used to it while single, and he’s too low paid/cheap and wants to save for retirement more instead, they wouldn’t be a match. |
I looked up the recent data 200k is top 20% in dmv vs top 5% in the US. It’s a high COLA area |
That's HHI, not individual, right? |
These households include the households consisting of single people as well |
This is such a pervasive problem. Women should have exceptionally high standards but having any at all really triggers some DCUM posters. A man married to an average woman gets— at least— $500,000 equivalent services of a surrogate and egg donor if they have two children. A woman married to an average man gets less than nothing, because he is a net drain on her resources. Donor sperm is not especially costly. If you’re not getting a top 10-15% man, you’re getting a bad deal. |
bad math |
It's a litmus test for her if she values it. Beyond character traits like kindness and empathy a " good" husband means different things to different people. I know people who spend 12k a year on Math tutoring per child. Add sports, music, some travel and you need some " good" money to make it work. If you grew up this way and want your kids to grow up the same way, you will need something close to 400k combined income in this area. Plus she is the one sleeping with the husband. If she needs him to be financially ambitious and driven in order for her to want to sleep with him, all the " good" in the world will not help him. |
How much do you think surrogacy and egg donation costs? |
The math was off but not too far off. Surrogacy cost $150k; egg donation could be free but with select designer egg up $40k. The issue is not that but the wife also provides free labor for the totality of raising the children! It is a net drain on her time, more so than for men as they tend to underdeliver with household duties. There was in fact an economic research that women put in these duties over $100k/year in lost pension savings, career opportunities and free labor |
DP. Surrogacy is 150k per child. So 2 children = 300k |
A man gets free babies in marriage. |