Salary s/o when did your hhi hit $300k

[Anonymous]

I agree with the previous poster who said that big salary doesn't always equate to long hours, absences, etc. My DH and I make a combined income of around $450k, and we're both home by 5:30 every night. We have relatively flexible jobs at large corporations.

To answer the original question, we hit $300k when we got married and combined incomes. So around age 34 and 36.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I agree with the previous poster who said that big salary doesn't always equate to long hours, absences, etc. My DH and I make a combined income of around $450k, and we're both home by 5:30 every night. We have relatively flexible jobs at large corporations.

To answer the original question, we hit $300k when we got married and combined incomes. So around age 34 and 36.

It doesn't always....but it does a lot!

I think the missing ingredient here is that many people in high-paying jobs have certain personalities that go with it - including wanting to do the events, speeches, dinners, travel, serving on boards, networking, etc. Not sure how much of it is necessary but that seems to be the norm from my experience. Nothing wrong with it, and not saying it's a bad thing, but a lot of high earners tend to be workaholics or tend to have a lot of these side things going on.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:PP, bitterness is sad, but I still don't think what you are posting is reality for most people, and you really are trying to make it sound like it's common. First of all, as another PP said, 99% of folks won't make near $300K, so that in itself is rare. And it's safe to say many people who do make that kind of money are as mentioned, professions like high level business execs, biglaw partners, surgeons etc., and many work long, long hours. Sure there are some exceptions, but I actually don't know any personally.

But l do agree feeling bitterness toward these people is sad. We feel very fortunate that although we don't make $300K, we make great salaries in jobs we love.

PP here. I never said it was common. I just think it's a mistake to assume there's always a correlation between money and a demanding job. You can work your ass off and barely see your family and make very little money, and the reverse is true as well.

It is worth noting that the posters who insist that everyone who makes a lot of money is a stressed-out workaholic are also the posters who don't know from firsthand experience. I'm telling you about my life and the lives of people I interact with every day in my neighborhood, socially, through organizations I belong to, and through my DH's job. If you don't live in this world you don't necessarily know what peoples' lives are like.

I'm not trying to point out how great my life is because my DH makes good money without sacrificing family time. We're all lucky in some ways and unlucky in others. I just think that when you have to convince yourself that your life is superior to someone else's based on nothing more than their HHI, it says a whole lot more about you than it does about them. (I realize this isn't you, PP. Just explaining myself.)

[Anonymous]

both in IT. THis year we are hitting over 300k. 33/34.