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What is your annual income?

What is your annual income?

  • Over $5000 up to $10,000

    Votes: 0 0.0%
  • Over $25,000 up to $30,000

    Votes: 0 0.0%
  • Over $30,000 up to $35,000

    Votes: 0 0.0%

  • Total voters
    53
There are two other polls that relate to this, but they give ridiculous figures.

Welcome to economic reality. What is your annual income (your individual income, not your family income), before taxes, but after your business expenses are deducted?

Vote in this poll. Then you may post your sources of income--employment, self-employment, retirement, capital gains, social security, alimony, rent, royalties, etc.

My biggest issue with this is human nature...it was set so that others could see your answer. How many of us would be willing to offer such personal financial information on a public internet forum unless we were afraid of losing nothing? I mean really...why would I release my net worth per year in a forum that allowed for suits against my net worth to reference this information?

That's just dumb.

ROFL
 
The way the poll is set up, most will fall over 50k and what will that mean?

And, at the time I'm posting this, that is what happened. 30 people checked "over $50K. Four others checked $40K to $50K.

Let's assume these answers are honest and that all of them read and understood that these were individual incomes and not family incomes.

Many are asking why I didn't use larger numbers. It looks like most of the people on this forum are in good financial shape, unless they are in high rent places like NYC or L.A.

But, look at the other end of the spectrum. The next largest number, 9, checked the lowest figure--Under $5K. I expected something like this because unemployment is at record levels right now--and rising--and will continue to rise until next year when enough Republicans and fiscal conservatives get seats in Congress and legislatures to halt the reckless spending, taxing, and regulating.

Only a handful voted for anything in the middle--no more than 2 votes in any one category.

As a result of this poll, we now see that the great majority of people fall at the extremes of very poor (under $5K) and the well to do at $50K and above. The big number poll did not provide this information.

And the under $5K category looks like it is rapidly growing. Welcome to the Greater Depression.


Doesn't Obama want to tax the rich? Better them than me.

Looking at the way things are going, if you're making $50K, the government might consider you rich and soak you.


i live in fl.....where do you live?
ps....i don't consider over 50k much.

I was in St Petersburg and Sarasota last year. All along the Tamiami Trail I personally saw at least one out of every three businesses closed and boarded up. There were unemployed people all over the place.


I'm a dirt poor unemployed university student getting by on scholarships and a janitorial job at a church (all I do is vacuum it twice a week). Thanks Obama for screwing students and the job market :) If anything the government should put some regulation on rising tuition prices...

There are many others just like you.


:lol: you can't live in my county for less than almost double your top choice.

Yes, there are some places where living costs are outrageous. I'll bet the place where you live has lots of big government that taxes and regulates the hell out of everybody--maybe NY, NJ, MA, RI, or CA.


You needed an "over $500,000" option. :thumbs:

Don't let Obama find out. He'll soak you.


Did you really need to make four separate "under $20K" categories and everyone who makes over $50K gets lumped together? :confused:

There is a big difference between under $5K and $15K to $20K. The huge majority was under $5K.

There is another poll that has the large numbers you like.


I have been trying for about a year, where I am at no one is wanting to hire a part time worker with a full time students schedule. Most places have been cutting back on hours and employees. I support working, but finding a job in this economy and with a student schedule is hard/impossible :( I am thankful for the little income I have through my cleaning job.

Maybe one of those $50K earners would be willing to hire you. Would you accept $15K?


1000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000 Zimbabwe dollars.

That's at least a 40 foot shipping container full of those $100 trillion dollar notes.


1.7 Trillion.

Zimbabwe dollars, of course.


I actually make no money, as I am a poor college student. My wife brings in the money right now. So I voted her income level. Once I get a job in my field, we should double that.

You cheated a bit. The poll said individual income, not family income. If you make nothing, you are not alone; there are millions of others (9 million new ones this past year) on the same Obama-Biden Titanic.


I don't get the point of this poll...... 50K is supposed is supposed to make you rich? ..... I know people who make 80K and struggle to get by. But then again New York and LA are really expensive cities. I think wealth shouldn't be measured in how much you make but how much you have left at the end of the month. I could make 10K a month and have left $400 a month to save up. That doesn't make me rich.

Believe it or not, I know people who make $20K and do very well.


Those who cannot "make it" with an income of $50K annually, need to learn how to budget money....
This is what I should be doing, retired on less than $30K annually....

I could retire very well on $30K.
 
You must live in a rich state. Only a small percentage makes over $50,000 in my state or area.

Uh, what if the cost of living in my state are high too? Don't be so self-centered.

This poll is nice, but it hardly represents the population as a whole and its not the least bit scientific. You can't make any educated guesses based on it.
 
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I agree, and the Obama definition of "rich" is something like $250,000 a year after expenses.

Which is rich. $100,000 is for that matter. Even then taxes are the same rate as during the Bush years so its a moot point on the right to complain.
 
Believe it or not, I know people who make $20K and do very well.

20k is below the typical entry-level starting salary around here. Nobody can live here on that for long.

I could retire very well on $30K.

Maybe, since the government will be taking care of your medical insurance.
 
20k is below the typical entry-level starting salary around here. Nobody can live here on that for long.
I lived on less than that for over 10 years.


Which is rich. $100,000 is for that matter. Even then taxes are the same rate as during the Bush years so its a moot point on the right to complain.

Not true. I made approx 100k/year while living in San Diego, and I most certainly was not 'rich'. My fricken apartment cost 1/3 of that and almost 1/3 of it went to taxes.
 
I lived on less than that for over 10 years.




Not true. I made approx 100k/year while living in San Diego, and I most certainly was not 'rich'. My fricken apartment cost 1/3 of that and almost 1/3 of it went to taxes.

Leaving you with around $33,000 for other expenses? thats not poor by any means. I wish I could pay my mortage and taxes and still have $33,000 to piss away.
 
The next largest number, 9, checked the lowest figure--Under $5K.
Most of those are students.

Only a handful voted for anything in the middle--no more than 2 votes in any one category.
Actually, far more voted in the middle than in the lowest end of the spectrum.
 
I lived on less than that for over 10 years.




Not true. I made approx 100k/year while living in San Diego, and I most certainly was not 'rich'. My fricken apartment cost 1/3 of that and almost 1/3 of it went to taxes.
wow...you can rent a high rise condo in chicago for much less than that.
 
I am amazed at how much personal info. people will put out online and have always thought asking someone how much they make as rude.
well, these categories are very broad.
 
Leaving you with around $33,000 for other expenses? thats not poor by any means. I wish I could pay my mortage and taxes and still have $33,000 to piss away.

ROFLMAO Yeah, I had 30000 to 'piss away'. You mean... health insurance, 401k, to buy groceries, make car payments, pay insurance on said car, pay credit card bills, and numerous other bills I had at the time. Yeah, it was 'pissed away'. Hell, just tallying up groceries, 401k and car payments... that took another 20k.

So 'rich'? Hardly. I had very little excess. I was barely making ends meet at the time. Was I hurting? Not at all. But I was far from 'rich'.
 
wow...you can rent a high rise condo in chicago for much less than that.

San Diego area is one of the most expensive places to live in the country. My 1 bedroom cost me 2k/month in rent alone. Add utilities to that and you get a much higher figure.
 
San Diego area is one of the most expensive places to live in the country. My 1 bedroom cost me 2k/month in rent alone. Add utilities to that and you get a much higher figure.
well, it's not quite 33k. ;-)
but yes, expensive.
 
well, it's not quite 33k. ;-)
but yes, expensive.

When I said my apt cost me a third, I meant the apt and necessary utilities. Water, for instance, was pretty expensive in that area.

And yes, I was giving an approximation anyway.
 
When I said my apt cost me a third, I meant the apt and necessary utilities. Water, for instance, was pretty expensive in that area.

And yes, I was giving an approximation anyway.
i know...you pay for the climate and area, as do i.

worth it for me, though.
 
There wasn't any bail out for students nor any new programs for rising tuition prices. He talks about how important an education is, but doesn't offer anything to help make higher education more affordable or regulate university tuition costs. I do get a pell grant from the government and money from my state that I am very grateful for, but I don't see anything new being implemented. I just think it's criminal that universities can charge so much for an education and making it more exclusively for children with rich parents. I just wish that congress would do an overhaul on higher education, our country needs that.
if you want lower tuition prices then it means paying more taxes, and americans complain about taxes 24-7, even though they only pay a maximum of 35%. you cant have it both ways.
 
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