What will your HHI be this year?

[Anonymous]

420k. We both work from home at jobs we enjoy with flexible schedules. Two tweens. I feel fortunate.

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Anonymous wrote:$400,000 a year. Expect it to be flat for the next three (or 7) years. Sons manage the family real estate (mainly hotels), crypto and other holdings separately.

[Anonymous]

~$228k
Mid 50s. We don’t work in jobs that have bonuses.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:300k earned, 700k investment earnings and gains.

You could gains as income?

Did you bank the gains or just paper $?

[Anonymous]

Rich people Flexing here. And the racist Elon Musk wants you to believe White people are disadvantaged in this country. Alright that was inappropriate Joke 😂

[Anonymous]

Black couple here. Total of 380 split almost even but wife makes slightly more. Wife to make some bonus money to take it closer to 400k. Lawyer/ doctor couple but both in more primary care / government jobs so good lifestyle.

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Anonymous wrote:Rich people Flexing here. And the racist Elon Musk wants you to believe White people are disadvantaged in this country. Alright that was inappropriate Joke 😂

Haha I am op and I am not white.

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Anonymous wrote:I don't know. Salary/wages about 260k. Other income (cap gains, rent from a house we rent out, etc) maybe another 70K? I'm really not sure. I'll know once our taxes are done and dusted.

HUGE (for us), over $1M because DH got laid off and there was a large severance. Don’t worry he’s been looking for a job (unsuccessfully) for almost a year, even though he’s willing to take $100k a year. No one wants a 50 year old. So we’re kinda screwed.

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

+1
We have to see how the business performed in Q4.

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My Uber driver today said that his wife makes “really good money” as a daycare provider but that so many of the kids’ parents have lost their jobs that they are down 4 kids out of their limit of ten because “everyone’s home now”

[Anonymous]

Three fiddy. No family support or inheritance, I'm a full time girl scout, but my cousin is the loch ness monster.

[Anonymous]

2.5 inches, and a bonus inch. Which seems bigger than most posters here.

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Anonymous wrote:A friend of mine reached out last week. He has been looking for a job for 11 months. He used to make $256k as a senior software developer.

Don't fall in love with your "high" HHI. You can be him next time and I am sure you won't be coming here bragging.

Very true and this is the case for my job where I think i will graze just about 400k this year. I’m well aware of my precarious situation and am extremely conservative. Best case scenario, Inwill retire with a minutiae of money. Worst case scenario i will stop working at 48(now) and still live well due to savings.

However, my DH is a different story. He makes about 350-400k/yr and constantly has recruiters banging down his door. When he job hunts he always has his choice of jobs, only time he leaves a company is due to culture or i’d he no longer believes in the technology. Last job switch he did he had 3 offers before he even resigned from his company. He’s a sales engineer (technical person who understands products and technology).

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DH and I should round out 2025 with an HHI of about $975K, $350K of that is a bonus payment from the previous year. We are 30 and 32yo. DH is co-founder and CSO for a pre-IPO tech startup.

Overall NW is up $2.4M total in 2025 due to payments on low interest mortgage, unrealized taxable gains in brokerage, and realized gains in tax sheltered retirement, HSA, and 529 plan accounts.

[Anonymous]

We're early retired and took Social Security early as well. Our income this year will be around $160k, consisting entirely of SS, rental income, and long term capital gains. We will owe zero federal income tax because of how we structure our income.