What's your income?

[CutieMouse]

Officially pitiful, with potential to become respectably pitiful by Monday-ish, and officially pitiful + 10 by September 1.

 

[BiBunny]

Not nearly enough.

 

[Abraxas Winterlight]

varies depending on my overtime for the year but I do around 50K (sometimes higher, sometimes lower)

trying to squirrel away what I can.

& CM, fingers are crossed

 

[CutieMouse]

varies depending on my overtime for the year but I do around 50K (sometimes higher, sometimes lower)

trying to squirrel away what I can.

& CM, fingers are crossed

Thank you.

(JeebusChrist on a biscuit I want this job.)

 

[Abraxas Winterlight]

i'll cross toes too then

 

[EmpressFi]

about 84K combined

 

[CutieMouse]

Part of the problem with the "what's your income" question though, is cost of living. I would be doing really well on $65k here; on the East or West Coast, not so much.

 

[Sir_Winston54]

Part of the problem with the "what's your income" question though, is cost of living. I would be doing really well on $65k here; on the East or West Coast, not so much.

Hell, darlin' girl, you can say that about *Texas!* $65K in a good share of Tejas would give you a really nice living - but in Houston, DFW, even Corpus, you'd be stretching a little to call it a middle-class income. But then, Texas *used* to be its own country...

 

[CutieMouse]

Hell, darlin' girl, you can say that about *Texas!* $65K in a good share of Tejas would give you a really nice living - but in Houston, DFW, even Corpus, you'd be stretching a little to call it a middle-class income. But then, Texas *used* to be its own country...

Hi, I Live in DFW!

I probably define "middle class" differently than most, because I don't buy into the Dallas-isms of Dallas. I can tell you that if I was making $65k, I'd have a kick ass savings account right about now. LOL

(All my clothing is vintage/second hand, the car's paid off with no plans to replace it anytime soon, I've never taken on a mortgage more than 2/3 of what I qualify for, I don't eat out a lot, and as of now my greatest expense each season is updating/replacing memberships to various museums/etc in the area so I don't have to pay admission for 1 adult + 5 kids every time we want to do something fun.)

 

[Sir_Winston54]

Hi, I Live in DFW!

I probably define "middle class" differently than most, because I don't buy into the Dallas-isms of Dallas. I can tell you that if I was making $65k, I'd have a kick ass savings account right about now. LOL

(All my clothing is vintage/second hand, the car's paid off with no plans to replace it anytime soon, I've never taken on a mortgage more than 2/3 of what I qualify for, I don't eat out a lot, and as of now my greatest expense each season is updating/replacing memberships to various museums/etc in the area so I don't have to pay admission for 1 adult + 5 kids every time we want to do something fun.)

Yeah, but you know what I mean... otherwise, you wouldn't have said the bolded part above.

 

[CutieMouse]

Yeah, but you know what I mean... otherwise, you wouldn't have said the bolded part above.

*snort*

 

[graceanne]

While K's gone we'll be making at least 40,000. Last year we made about 20,000. When he gets back he has five more months of classes until he gets his bachelors, and can get a job that doesn't involve construction, so I'm not sure how much he'll be making then.

 

[Etoile]

I guess I can't answer fairly, because for half the year I work full-time (30 hrs/wk for me) and half the year I work almost none because of school (sometimes 2-6 hrs/wk, but down to 0/wk during crunch times). I quit my job to go back to school, the summertime work is just to keep afloat during the semester.

If I worked at my current job 40 hrs/wk, 50 wks/yr I'd be making over $100k. Which is DAMN good for a 28 y/o without a degree. (The degree I'm earning is for myself, not for the money.)

Currently though I earn about $20-25k/yr which is enough to pay the tuition and bills and not much more.

 

[Bandit58]

Together Sir and I receive about $27,000AU from welfare (disability/carers payments), rent assistance and utilities assistance. We live in subsidised housing (2brm unit, rent $160AU/week).

We do receive rebates on our electricity for having the dialysis machine and also the landline phone, but our last electricity bill was $223 for 3 months. Sir feels the cold and it's the middle of winter here so the heater is on quite a bit. I expect the next bill will be even higher.

 

[00Syd]

I'm currently a professional bum/student. Feel free to make an educated guess.

 

[VelvetDarkness]

I'm self employed and my business is fairly new so my earnings vary a great deal. I gave you last year's earnings but I hope this year will improve on that.

 

[Sir_Winston54]

Together Sir and I receive about $27,000AU from welfare (disability/carers payments), rent assistance and utilities assistance. We live in subsidised housing (2brm unit, rent $160AU/week).

We do receive rebates on our electricity for having the dialysis machine and also the landline phone, but our last electricity bill was $223 for 3 months. Sir feels the cold and it's the middle of winter here so the heater is on quite a bit. I expect the next bill will be even higher.

$223 for 3 months' electricity = $77.67AU/month, in the *winter?* Damn. My electric bill is over $77/month (US $!) in spring/fall months when the heat/air conditioning is off and the windows are open!

 

[Primalex]

$223 for 3 months' electricity = $77.67AU/month, in the *winter?* Damn. My electric bill is over $77/month (US $!) in spring/fall months when the heat/air conditioning is off and the windows are open!

It's your computer.

 

[graceanne]

$223 for 3 months' electricity = $77.67AU/month, in the *winter?* Damn. My electric bill is over $77/month (US $!) in spring/fall months when the heat/air conditioning is off and the windows are open!

I wish mine was only 77. Mines closer to 150 a month. We figure it's the hot water heater - there are six people here who routinely need to bathe. We try and do group showers as much as possible (my daughter and my roommates daughter, me and my other daughter), but still . . .

 

[Sir_Winston54]

$223 for 3 months' electricity = $77.67AU/month, in the *winter?* Damn. My electric bill is over $77/month (US $!) in spring/fall months when the heat/air conditioning is off and the windows are open!

It's your computer.

Actually, it's more likely my 81-year-old mother's 23" television (CRT type), which stays on 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. When she's not watching old movies on TMC (6-14 hours a day), she has it tuned to one of the music channels, to help her rest. She allegedly *never* sleeps, only lies down and closes her eyes, but she "just can't sleep."

Funny thing is, sometimes she gets tired of the music when she's "resting," but she won't turn the damn TV off... NO! She just mutes it, so it keeps burning electricity! I've told her a number of times that if she's going to mute it, she might as well turn it off and save electricity, but... old dawgs and new tricks, ya know?

 

[Sir_Winston54]

I wish mine was only 77. Mines closer to 150 a month. We figure it's the hot water heater - there are six people here who routinely need to bathe. We try and do group showers as much as possible (my daughter and my roommates daughter, me and my other daughter), but still . . .

I did say that it was >$77 on the lowest months... it *has* hit $300 during really really cold months.

Yeah, water heaters will eat up those electrons like they're goin' out of style. You can actually *save* money on heating water by getting a new, *larger,* energy efficient water heater, even though they cost a fair chunk to buy. Energy efficiency saves some money, and having a larger one means it has to recycle less often to keep the water hot, and between the two, you can generally save enough on electricity to pay for the new water heater in the first year you have it. (Sometimes less, if your current water heater is old enough.)

 

[graceanne]

I did say that it was >$77 on the lowest months... it *has* hit $300 during really really cold months.

Yeah, water heaters will eat up those electrons like they're goin' out of style. You can actually *save* money on heating water by getting a new, *larger,* energy efficient water heater, even though they cost a fair chunk to buy. Energy efficiency saves some money, and having a larger one means it has to recycle less often to keep the water hot, and between the two, you can generally save enough on electricity to pay for the new water heater in the first year you have it. (Sometimes less, if your current water heater is old enough.)

I rent. When we have our own house we're gonna have energy efficient everything, even if it takes awhile to afford it.

 

[the captians wench]

I'm in an upstairs apt. My electric is actually higher in the summer than in the winter. In the winter, my neighbor below me keeps his heat high enough that I don't hardly have to run mine unless it gets into the teens outside.

It has gone up since I have a washer and dryer now, and I'm sure the tv is adding to it. Damn dad for bringing me that converter box.

 

[Marquis]

I get $275 a week in unemployment.

 

[jockdom]

I'm on £12'000 before tax but I do get 4 weeks payed holiday !