Our HHI is 260k -- software development and government contracting.

Realistically I know we aren't just scraping by, but a used car was a huge financial decision for us. This area is so screwed up.

Farmer and part-time Account Executive- $500k +

Software architect ($150K) and risk management consultant ($120K). We could both make more, but we currently get to work from home and have a ton of flexibility. It's worth the lower salary to have the reduced stress.

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Anonymous wrote:DH $1.9m. Base salary is 270k and the rest is stock grants.
He is a technical manager at a big computer company. Think Microsoft, Apple. Facebook level.
Me- $8,000 from education consulting very part time and selling on eBay.

With that income why on earth are selling on eBay?

Dh makes a good amount, 350k, and we're comfortable. I sold things (and shopped at Goodwill) when we he was still in grad school and I was a SAHM and we were scraping by but now I just donate all of our things that we no longer use hoping it will help someone else out like it did us.

It's my hobby and it gives me something to do during the day. I did the PTSA, room parent and HOA thing for 10 years and am so burned out... Now I train for half marathons and shop.

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Anonymous wrote:I think they lie on DCUM about their salaries.

I disagree. So many people here are in biglaw.

I don't believe that.

People on here lie about their earnings and what they truly do for a living. On this forum, you can essentially re-invent yourself to a bunch of strangers whereas in real life, it's much harder to do.

I disagree.

I notice that a lot of people on DCUM assume people with high salaries are lying. Why would we lie on DCUM? To what benefit?

It's as if the doubters think it's not realistic that someone could earn that much more than they do?

Trust me, after working in the field of executive compensation at a law firm (advising companies about their comp), I know that there are lots of people in companies around the US that make more than $200K at the junior management level, and it goes up from there.

Fed and police officer; $220k

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Anonymous wrote:DH $1.9m. Base salary is 270k and the rest is stock grants.
He is a technical manager at a big computer company. Think Microsoft, Apple. Facebook level.
Me- $8,000 from education consulting very part time and selling on eBay.

With that income why on earth are selling on eBay?

Dh makes a good amount, 350k, and we're comfortable. I sold things (and shopped at Goodwill) when we he was still in grad school and I was a SAHM and we were scraping by but now I just donate all of our things that we no longer use hoping it will help someone else out like it did us.

What does your dh do?

Anonymous wrote:DH $1.9m. Base salary is 270k and the rest is stock grants.
He is a technical manager at a big computer company. Think Microsoft, Apple. Facebook level.
Me- $8,000 from education consulting very part time and selling on eBay.

With that income why on earth are selling on eBay?

Dh makes a good amount, 350k, and we're comfortable. I sold things (and shopped at Goodwill) when we he was still in grad school and I was a SAHM and we were scraping by but now I just donate all of our things that we no longer use hoping it will help someone else out like it did us.

DH $1.9m. Base salary is 270k and the rest is stock grants.
He is a technical manager at a big computer company. Think Microsoft, Apple. Facebook level.
Me- $8,000 from education consulting very part time and selling on eBay.

Anonymous wrote:I thought I was doing well at 29 and 95k and thought most of the people making well over 6 figures are over 50 and very tenured in their company/fed who moved up to executive level positions, or of course the highly educated dr/lawyers. I am clearly just above the poverty line compared to everyone else on this board. 6 figures is NBD, but 250k, 500k?? What are all the late 20/30 year olds (who are not dr, lawyers) doing? TIA!

Physician and stay at home spouse. 600k+

Anonymous wrote:38/39. I own a main business and recently some related smaller businesses, husband is a government employee. We have taken home an average of over a million for several years, but the last few years have been considerably stronger. We haven't finished taxes, but it will be over 1.7M for 2016 (us personally, not gross business income, which is probably in the $8M-$9M range)

I will say that once you start consistently making that kind of money it actually starts to snowball.

Congratulations!

Are your businesses tied to this area? Ours is not and we could live anywhere, but chose to stay here out of familiarity and good quality of schools.

Two small business owners - combined HHI $380K.

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Anonymous wrote:What are all the late 20/30 year olds (who are not dr, lawyers) doing?

That was the original OP's question, yet most of the responses are from doctors and lawyers

So we have learned that lawyers and doctors cannot read well. Hmmm

OP - we are on the lower end of you question but we are in sales and litigation support (not lawyer!)

Are you on the vendor side or firm side for lit sup? I'm at a firm and curious if the vendor side pays better.

38/39. I own a main business and recently some related smaller businesses, husband is a government employee. We have taken home an average of over a million for several years, but the last few years have been considerably stronger. We haven't finished taxes, but it will be over 1.7M for 2016 (us personally, not gross business income, which is probably in the $8M-$9M range)

I will say that once you start consistently making that kind of money it actually starts to snowball.

Anonymous wrote:Software Consultant: $180-254K
Medical Sales: $150-200K

What kind of software consulting? App arch? Programming?