What is your yearly gross salary and what was the purchase price of your daily driving vehicle?

$131k salary, $35,000 Ford F150 that I paid cash for

$47k salary, $200 (used bicycle). Sometimes I ride the $2700 scooter.

I don't own a car right now.

$183k

$51k (used BMW 550xi that replaced a 10 y/o truck with 183k miles on it)

Probably spent too much, but it's a helluva car.

I had a car during my undergrad years, yet I didn't have money for petrol. Got rid of it, moved to a city with great public transport, never looked back.

80s kid wrote:

Not that surprising. wrote:

Huh? Lots of people make 100+k, especially mid career/larger cities.

Exactly. 100k is middle class. Plus take into account a lot of us have been working a long time. My first job paid 54k 11 years ago.

Also take into account:

1) People who reply on such threads are self-selected - mostly wanting to brag. Sometime in humble brag form.

2) People are liars.

$90k. Commuter is worth $5k.

Wife bought my commuter before we were married and paid it off..... so don't know what she paid. Toyota Yaris that gets 41 mpg every tank.

Gross--I don't know till that thing comes from the IRS. soon

2011 VW GTI Autobahn ed--29,500

110K salary

$12K truck, purchased used in cash spring 2008

It does make one wonder who the heck is buying all these NEW cars!

$775,000

Chevy Tahoe. It's a lease and have another 12 months left on it. I'll probably get another gas guzzling SUV when this lease is up.

xlev2 wrote:

Gross--I don't know till that thing comes from the IRS. soon

2011 VW GTI Autobahn ed--29,500

You work for the IRS?

Geez.... Seeing all these six figure salaries, did inflation increase a lot? I make 215k but I'm no spring chicken.

pot kettle wrote:

Geez.... Seeing all these six figure salaries, did inflation increase a lot? I make 215k but I'm no spring chicken.

Oh, and I don't have a car. I uber or public transport.

You work for the IRS?You work for the IRS?

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Nah. What the hell is the name of that thing that comes in the mail every Jan and tells you what you made. has actual carbon paper like the old ACT scores did in high school. perforated edges, the whole bit

W-2 if you are employee

1099 if independent contractor

yeah W-2 thx

OK, didn't mean to hijack the thread

I gross 84k a year from my "career" and another 20k from a side gig. I bought my vehicle, a 2004 truck, used in 2006 for $11,000.00. It still runs great and just hit 175k miles. I thoroughly enjoy not making car payments and laugh at friends that go through a new ride every 2-3 years and believe that always having a $500/month payment is a fact of life.

I make $50K a year. Car is a 2010 Ford Focus, purchased for around $15K. Paid it off, so now I'm sans car payment.

A question for people who don't have a car: Don't you feel like a prisoner in your own city? I understand you can use public transportation, taxis, Uber, etc. to get around But what if you want to go somewhere else? You can't fly or take a train everywhere. How do you manage?

$287k in a small town just outside of Bolton, Mississippi. Drive a 1985 toyota Avalon. 331,xxx miles. Traded it straight up with some kid for a bag of skittles back in 2011. Runs like new and still looks great.