what is your estimated yearly income before taxes?

[Slyder190]

Interesting thread. I'm a poor man myself taking home around 38k/year or so. One bachelors degree in communications, two NCPT certs, and yet with that bartending made me the most money at about 50k take home. The certs paid for themselves at least. My parents paid for community college and I paid my own way Jr and Sr year and have yet for that investment to pay even a $1 dividend. I attempted to go back to school for nursing but hated it. A lot of corruption at the students' expense. I wasted a lot of years with no direction. I'm currently in the process of getting my NLMS license and hope to be at six figures in three years. Will be working with and learning from friends of mine who have been killing it for a lot of years. One day I would like to start a business on the side. Preferably interner based as here in NJ the government all but suffocates small business owners while mugging them at the same time.
I find it ironic so many are quick to crow about their six figures plus, but very few mention what they do.

 

[Mini Monster]

Shit on paper mine looks ok hahaha not really, 77 then all the deductions for sam and then try to put alittle in a 401k that really seems to go nowhere. Then using what I have too just to stay and live outside of the worst places is completely fucking ridiculous. There has to be a much better way where more than just a few people make it .

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[aphextwin]

39% here make over 100k bullshit.

Anytime I see a survey or poll esp with research studies I take it for a grain of salt bc people lie.

You better believe people lie about what they make. I work as an Technical Recruiter and I guarantee you don't see companies throwing around $250-350K salary packages. Matter of fact, I've recently been recruiting in the Washington DC market where it's very expensive to live, and I will say the average salary with guys with Active DoD Clearance/IT exp making around $120K. The highest salary we offered a guy was exactly $200K a year with a $5K sign-on bonus and 25 days of PTO.....guess what? He turned down the position. I was like I'm in the wrong industry.

Like mentioned above, you don't see monster comp plans being thrown around.