all of the people making 250k, 300k, 500k - what do you do?!

[Anonymous]

Fintech/MD 450

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:$410k, DH and I are both metro operators.

Sorry, this may sound dumb, but what do you mean by metro operators? You drive the metro train? Please excuse my ignorance.

Yes, we've both been metro operators for years. DH moved into the ROCC (control center) and is a controller now so that was a nice bump.

If this is true, we now know why Metro has fallen to pieces over the past 20 years!

[Anonymous]

There are a lot of lawyers in the dc area. I think many of the high HHI figures you see here are those.

[Anonymous]

Except the lawyers that post here aren't high income lawyers. They are income not equity.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Except the lawyers that post here aren't high income lawyers. They are income not equity.

But even associates and income partners are relatively high earners if you're talking big firms. 160k at 25-26 years old and 350k-450k by mid thirties seems pretty good to me. It's not the million plus that more senior equity partners make, but not sure why you assume those folks aren't on DCUM as well.

[Anonymous]

We have a HHI of $200K, mostly even between myself and my husband. I'm a fed and he's at the World Bank.

I think we can get to $300K in the next five years, but we'll be capped out after that - just relying on COLA increases. If we wanted a big jump in income, with one of us earning $200K sometime soon, then we'd need to switch sectors and work more hours. We're happy with the work-life balance, and lifestyle, our current careers afford us.

[Anonymous]

Consulting and Sales, $425k.

[Anonymous]

Consultant, make abut 125. Hope to make closer to 200 by 30 or 31.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:$410k, DH and I are both metro operators.

You can't be, I can understand what you said.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Except the lawyers that post here aren't high income lawyers. They are income not equity.

I know at least 3 people that frequent dcum that have at least one law partner in the family. They are all dual income with hhis likely between 600k and 1 mil +. And that's just from my small corner of the dcum realm.

[Anonymous]

Sales and sales. Anywhere between 350-500K HHI.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I'm a biglaw associate, my boyfriend is a fed with about 10 years under his belt. HHI 270.

You don't have a HHI.

Don't be a prick. If they live together and pool their resources, they have a HHI, whether or not they are married.
Personally, I wouldn't have such an arrangement without being married or at least engaged, but that's a different topic.

I would -- and do. The marriage penalty if effing brutal -- especially if one person makes significantly more than the other.

[Anonymous]

Sales people, what are you selling?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Except the lawyers that post here aren't high income lawyers. They are income not equity.

I know at least 3 people that frequent dcum that have at least one law partner in the family. They are all dual income with hhis likely between 600k and 1 mil +. And that's just from my small corner of the dcum realm.

I am sure. The PP noted that these were high HHI. As you obviously well know, 500k is not high for a Biglaw equity partner. A high HHI for a Biglaw equity partner would easily be well into the 7 figures, even with a SAHS (I say spouse because I know a few families where mom is the equity partner)

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I think they lie on DCUM about their salaries.

I think so too. Why do they have so much time to spend on DCUM in the middle of the day and make the money they say the do? I'd fire their asses if they worked for me.