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[quote=Anonymous]It depends on starting salary. If you’re making 100k and could jump to 175k that isn’t quite as enticing as going from 200k+ to 350k+.

Between commuting, needing to pay extended day care for 2 kids ($750), extras like dry cleaning and take out when I’m tired, adding in extra house cleaning since I’m already losing hours of my week, I would easily spend ~$1,200/month just to break even essentially. Granted much of that is childcare which may be moot for you, but you asked what it would take for us to give up WAH. So I’d need to net close to 15k as a net neutral.

An extra 75k after taxes is probably about 50k (maybe more if you’re in a lower tax bracket). 50k - 15k = 35k.

Would I give up the nice work/life balance I have now for an extra 35k/year? Possibly if we could really use the money. That would bolster 529s and allow for some nicer travel. But there are other factors like my kids having to drop extracurriculars they love that start at 4:30/5PM because I wouldn’t be home. And the added burden on my spouse since we’d now have to build in my commute time.

We already have a HHI over 300k so that extra 35k net isn’t as enticing as someone who has a HHI of 100k. But I would say I’d need to be making *at least* 75k more with growth opportunity to entertain giving up WAH.[/quote]

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