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

440k.

4500.

Doctor

CA

Fat Joe wrote:

observer 227 wrote:

I can't take it anymore. Reading these salaries is driving me crazy. I've never met anyone who makes over 80k.

Forget the cars. If you make 100k or more, list your profession and state where you live (if in the USA; list country where you live if outside the USA).

Haven't you ever met your doctor? Your realtor? Your (or your parent's) investment professional or estate planning lawyer? The tech guy who keeps your network humming at work? Principal and superintendent at your school? Hell, even some of the teachers make more than 80k.

^ True, although like the 5K false deflation on this site, I would also guess there is false salary inflation. Unfortunately, $100K is not much anymore, especially in urban areas in high demand.

500k. 24k/55k/60k. All used about equally

How nice is everyone's house if they are all making 6 figures? I knew runners were smart and hardworking but all of these household incomes are way higher than the averages in even some of the nicest towns in America. Just doing some quick math if you are pulling in $500K (have seen multiple households claiming this on the thread) do you live in like a $3M place?

Posted earlier, 800k and live in a 700k home in a low cost area.

utilities wrote:

How nice is everyone's house if they are all making 6 figures? I knew runners were smart and hardworking but all of these household incomes are way higher than the averages in even some of the nicest towns in America. Just doing some quick math if you are pulling in $500K (have seen multiple households claiming this on the thread) do you live in like a $3M place?

Yes, actually. Paid $2.5M, market value is $3-3.5M. But it's in SF Bay Area, so it's not a particularly impressive house compared to what that would buy you in other markets.

Banker wrote:

Posted earlier, 800k and live in a 700k home in a low cost area.

I am all for frugality but you make $800K (or combined with spouse or partner) and live in a $700K home?

I know life isn't about keeping up the joneses but what else do you spend it on? Do you have a sick vacation house too?

Nope. I live in a very low cost area so my 700k house is massive and in the nicest area. Also, five years ago we were at 300k so my current home doesn't represent my current income.

Wow - Lets Run is made up almost exclusively of the top 10%! Even with their high paying gigs they still find time to post on pointless anonymous message boards. My experience is most people with a lot of money don't talk about it - I believe maybe 1% of this.

I agree that people with money don't discuss in real life, but this is an anonymous board so why not. I can only speak for myself, but I was a runner long ago which got me to this site but I keep visiting for the random threads like this.

$15,000 retired, so that's my Social Security

2008 Mini Cooper paid $6,700

2000 Subaru Outback paid $6,250 six years ago

2009 Kawasaki Versys, paid $3,500 four years ago.

Salary 1: 70k

Job 2: 25k (part-time tree business)

Vehicle: 1999 Chevy Silverado (paid $2,500)

Use: Use truck as daily driver (12 mile round trip commute) and as my main money maker for my tree business.

Next year I'll be upgrading to a large diesel truck capable of pulling 12k+ pounds. It's quite dangerous pulling the 8-10k lbs I currently pull with the little Silverado.

utilities wrote:

How nice is everyone's house if they are all making 6 figures? I knew runners were smart and hardworking but all of these household incomes are way higher than the averages in even some of the nicest towns in America. Just doing some quick math if you are pulling in $500K (have seen multiple households claiming this on the thread) do you live in like a $3M place?

I posted earlier. Household income is 674k a year, the value of my house is approximately 550k, paid mortgage. Cars are my passion so I spend a lot on them but have also made a lot of money selling them. Will buy high range cars, wait for the value to rise and sell on. My job is a golf course shaper, I drive a dozer basically but it is a highly specialized area of machinery operation with long days and punishing deadlines on multi-million dollar projects.

This job supplied the bulk of my wealth and enabled me to be able pursue my passion in exotic cars and once I realized there was potential to make money from gambling on the appreciation value of certain models, my hobby quickly turned into a substantial topup to my yearly earnings which required very little work. I am away from home a lot so having a 3 million dollar mansion for 2 people does not make sense to us. Outside of cars, we do not live a lavish lifestyle.

$500K

$15.5K (used Honda)

$23K (used minivan)

Paid cash

utilities wrote:

How nice is everyone's house if they are all making 6 figures? I knew runners were smart and hardworking but all of these household incomes are way higher than the averages in even some of the nicest towns in America. Just doing some quick math if you are pulling in $500K (have seen multiple households claiming this on the thread) do you live in like a $3M place?

$3 million after taxes in the nicest parts of the Bay Area (Portola Valley, Los Altos Hills, Atherton) will get you a 4 bed / 3 bath with 2 car garage. Not a cabin, certainly, but not the mansion that $3 million would get you in most places.

Big houses in those areas can run upwards of $10 million.

I wrote: "2016 salary $38,500. My car '14 BMW M4 $86k, wife '15 Volvo V50 $42k. I make a little money that is not salary."

I live in a very modest house in Ranch Santa Fe that is worth about $2.5M. (see my last sentence above).

P.S. I ran for an NAIA school and then went into the military, into the legal profession and then into business.

Salary: $120K

Vehicle: $500.00 (bicycle)

Software Engineer

California

Combined $70,000

I drive an '06 Grand Prix (free hand me down I got 7 years ago)

Wife swapped out her '03 Cavalier for a '17 Escape last week ($25,600)

98k for me, 30k for the wife (she's in education hence the terrible pay).

24k for the wife's Mazda new in 2012. 15k for my used 2007 Sequoia back in 2013. Will probably own them both for another 5 years at least.