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[quote=Anonymous]What is a decent salary?

I think about this sometimes.  I'm 40 and I make 175 and my husband makes 195k.  total 360k.  We started with negative (college debt) and then we have 4 kids.  I feel like we aren't paycheck to paycheck but there's still a lot of trade offs.  
I think we are 'decent'  for a family.  Decent to me means - you are not freaking out about $ issues but you still think a little more would be nice.  I think it also means you wonder WTH is the government doing with all my tax money.

If we had a single income and I didn't spend as much money on things like work clothes, transportation to work, nannies I think decent could be @ 300k. Most single working parents with one spouse at home seems comparable with this type of income IMO.

I work with a lot of kids out of college.  In your 20's it seems less and most are single.  So they are 'surviving' on 60-100 right out of school.  Add $2-10k per year after that.  Some get high end every year, most do not.

Not sure about older folks - let's say 50+ . I wonder what would be different about that, but I don't know much people at that age or their finances.[/quote]

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