What was your parents' anual income when you were growing up?
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Anonymous
| How much, together, did they make per year? |
Anonymous
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Over $100k but I can't remember what exactly. I think I saw on some college forms.
House cost $70k. 
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Anonymous
| 250k. A nurse and an engineer. much cheaper area of the country. |
Anonymous
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Dollars of what year?
My parents made 150K Euros a year, twenty years ago. Enough for us to travel well. |
Anonymous
| When I was in HS, $80k - also saw on some college forms. House cost $113k and we lived in a small town out west. |
Anonymous
| No idea. Money was not discussed like that. We were comfortable bit not wealthy. |
Anonymous
| $88k was the last I saw on a FAFSA application. My dad was the sole employed party and was about 58 then. Today, as a 28 year old with no children, I make $75k. Crazy to think my dad raised 3 kids plus himself on that. |
Anonymous
| Mom was homeless and dad was on disability/handouts from his parents. Doubt they cleared a combined $20,000. |
Anonymous
| Dad was disabled but did not qualify for any benefits. Mom made $40k, but at least housing was cheap, maybe average for region was $80k for 3-bedroom house? (House values are still about that range today). |
Anonymous
Where did you live, with your dad? Sorry, sounds rough. I have family flirting with homelessness and its grim. |
Anonymous
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My stepdad supported a family of 9 on a salary between $40 and 50k. He died when I was 15 (and my younger siblings were 3, 5, 6) and left a $200K annuity that covered the family for about 10 years and then my mom went back to work. She makes about $30k now.
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Anonymous
They did not. Euros did not exist twenty years ago. |
Anonymous
| I never had any idea. Who talks about that? |
Anonymous
Families who had to have a hard talk about how they would pay for college. Or not. You have to complete the FAFSA etc and submit their Tax forms. |
Anonymous
| My dad made combined $40K at 2 jobs when I started college (with a sibling a year behind me) |