What will your HHI be this year?

[Anonymous]

$3.2, late forties. Single income family of four. Private schools and travel are our biggest expenses. Small-ish townhome, paid off ten year old cars, no luxury watches or clothes.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Including any bonuses? How much was your bonus?

I'm an RN and DH is a police officer. Just what bonuses do you think we're getting?

Are you being purposely obtuse? My mom was a municipal payroll clerk and had the small town cops making $300K a year back in 2010 with $200K in “overtime” - sounds similar enough to a bonus to me. RNs can also rack up overtime over tens of thousands.

[Anonymous]

$360K base plus $65K Bonus/other. We are in our 50s- mortgage is about $150K and our home is now worth about $2.5 Mil. College and grad school are behind us and both kids launched. Under these circumstances, we are very comfortable at this salary.

[Anonymous]

400k combined. I make 200k, DH 185k. I got a 15k bonus. It is hard for me to imagine a 200k bonus!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Do most people here get bonuses in December? Both mine and DWs are paid in March based on prior year results.

Mine has to be paid by 12/31 because we are an SCorp. If you are in a partnership you can pay out later.

My base is around $200, bonus will be around $250, and profit split around $750. But we pay the profit split quarterly so it’s not all deferred. So $1.2m. Not sure what DH will make, maybe $200k.

Damn! What do you do?

[Anonymous]

Not sure, still waiting on checks from mandatory distributions.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:$400k or so if you include bonus of about $70k. One full time and one part-time in education (hardly makes anything). DCUM always makes me feel very poor.

Babe you aren't poor.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:400k combined. I make 200k, DH 185k. I got a 15k bonus. It is hard for me to imagine a 200k bonus!

Many executlve bonuses are structured as a percentage of base (up to 100%) and dependant on the company reaching a set of goals. So if your base is, say, $300 and your max bonus is 2/3 of base, and the company meets or exceeds all goals, you can earn a $200K bonus that year. But if you miss all goals you get $0. Sometimes the bonus is paid in stock, so on the day of award you are taxed at the value on the day of vesting, but if you hold the stock and it tanks, you could end up with a net negative. So, there are upsides and downsides. You can only rely on the base.

[Anonymous]

$800k and and didn’t work in 2025, severance and bonus payouts. Getting paid not to work is where it is at. Taxes suck though🖕.

[Anonymous]

Take the highest figure you see here and add 100k for us.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:$800k and and didn’t work in 2025, severance and bonus payouts. Getting paid not to work is where it is at. Taxes suck though🖕.

Smells like citadel / high finance. $800K sounds a bit low though.

[Anonymous]

Around $85k or so. My kid did receive a Pell grant the last two years but I doubt he will qualify now. Thank God he will be graduating next year.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:So interesting that someone might not know their HHI. Is that because it’s so enormous that it doesn’t matter? Or so irregular that you can’t predict?

Ours is $270k, evenly split between DH and myself.

We own a business so won’t know until the bitter end and cross the finish line on Dec 31st. Likely $1M maybe $1.1 depending when clients pay.

[Anonymous]

300k earned, 700k investment earnings and gains.

[Anonymous]

$7M in quant trading