15% of gross HHI, one kid.

Interesting post OP, this is quite shocking.

25 percent of take home and realized capital gains.

25% of gross income (this includes day care for baby which will turn into tuition in a few years).

15% of take home.

Several children, private schools, 1/10th of after-tax, take-home pay.

Anonymous wrote:30% of take home pay (after retirement, health insurance, taxes, etc are deducted)- 15% of pretax. This is for two kids.

Also- DH gets a bonus, which can be pretty sizable. I didn't include that in our HHI when calculating the % of tuition.

30% of take home pay (after retirement, health insurance, taxes, etc are deducted)- 15% of pretax. This is for two kids.

25% after taxes, retirement and healthcare. But we have therapy to add to that which make the total cost more like 35%.

And what's the value of your real estate and other assets- cause that's what they look at in determining financial aid eligibility, for good reason, IMHO.

I'm the 52%er - that's after contributing about $30k to retirement (since we use some savings to pay some tuition, it's basically moving money from non-tax advantaged accounts to tax-advantaged accounts). Already have about $800k in retirement. Plus expect a pension. Plus, we live on so little, hopefully we won't need much for retirement. Still have 20 years to go before kids are out of college. Maybe we'll be dead by then, and no need for retirement?

5 percent of pretax.

Holy cow, how will you all ever afford to retire? We save a third of our income. Thank goodness our public schools are good.

53%. Gulp. We've been using savings. One more kid moving into the picture too - I already include that pre-school tuition in my calculation.

For us it's about 25% of our take-home pay -- after taxes and funding retirement.