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is $100,000 / year still a good salary?

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Kntx said:
Please. 100K in NYC is plenty. More than plenty. Very nice. With 100K you can rent a very respectable appartment, save for retirement, have toys, eat and drink to your heart's content.
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Where in NYC? My friend just moved there and paying $2.8k for a 600 sqft apt in Chelsea.
 
jupiter57 said:
Why yes I am!
And the plane takes off on a treadmill too!🙄
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Yes, the plane does take off.

I find it funny that many commenting on $100K/yr jobs don't even have jobs themselves, but they speak of it as if they've lived the life and know the nuances of the lifestyle.

It's really comical, keep it up!
 
100k is enough to not worry about anything as long as you don't go crazy on a really expensive hobby and don't buy any stupid pure luxury things (like raptor egg + diamond omelets). However, you're on ATOT and are trash if you don't make at least 500k.
 
ElFenix said:
NYC consists more more than lower manhattan
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Very true. You've got midtown where nobody can afford to live. Upper west side/east side can be decent but still expensive as hell.

Bronx is shit except for Riverdale in the West Bronx which is as expensive as upper Manhattan. Queens is also shit except for Maspeth and the nicer areas closer to the island. Brooklyn, ditto except for the really expensive areas....see the pattern?

If you work in Manhattan, you either spend all of your income to live in Manhattan so you have no commute, or you spend 4 hours a day commuting to your home which may or may not be in a shitty neighborhood.

Can you tell I don't like NYC? 😵 Spent 26 years there and go back to see the family every few years...and want to leave after just a day. Well, two days. The food IS awesome. But that's it.

My two pennies. YMMV. Only on Tuesday. 2.2% financing only applies to the first 49 words of this reply. Coupons not accepted. No group buys.
 
Totally depends on where you live, how you live, and whether you have a family or not. I am single with no responsibilities outside of my own selfish needs, so it's plenty.

KT
 
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Top 6.24% of incomes in the wealthiest nation on the planet? What do you think?

Kids, no kids, doesn't matter. It's still the 94 percentile of income. Everyone else on the planet raises their families on less, so if you can't that's your failure.
 
raystorm said:
Depends on your lifestyle. I make a bit less than 50K a year as a doorman (salary +bonus/holiday tips) in Manhattan and I'm doing fine. Of course "doing fine" may not be acceptable to many especially in NYC...or ATOT. 😛
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"doing fine" in NYC probably sucks ass. Little tiny 1 room apartment, toilet right next to the kitchen counter. No car, no boat, no RV, not ATV.

Standards are pretty low in most cities. I don't know anyone who owns a quad. Out in rural areas, the kid who doesn't have a quad is considered ghetto poor.
My cousins didn't just have quads and motorcycles. They had horses. Several horses. They also had a big giant ass field to ride in.
 
like others have said it is very dependent on where you live

I'd be balls to the wall happy to bring in 100K a year though
 
depends where you live and your financial obligations. I would imagine its a nice salary for a single person regardless of the location -- but that same person will probably live like a king in other parts of the country.
 
ShawnD1 said:
"doing fine" in NYC probably sucks ass. Little tiny 1 room apartment, toilet right next to the kitchen counter. No car, no boat, no RV, not ATV.

Standards are pretty low in most cities. I don't know anyone who owns a quad. Out in rural areas, the kid who doesn't have a quad is considered ghetto poor.
My cousins didn't just have quads and motorcycles. They had horses. Several horses. They also had a big giant ass field to ride in.
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So you're saying a quad is the basis on which to measure financial success? 😉
 
TheNinja said:
So you're saying a quad is the basis on which to measure financial success? 😉
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Pretty much.
You could be a millionaire in NYC or Tokyo and your life would still suck. Traffic so dense you can't even drive a car anywhere. It takes 2 hours to get to work then 2 hours to get home. You can't ride a horse. I will kill myself if my life gets that horrible.

You don't know what fun is until you've had a game of drinking and shooting. The way you play is simple. Drink 3 beers before you start shooting. Now suspend bottles of water from something like a swing or on top of a fence. Get 100 yards away and shoot at the bottles. If you hit it, the other guy takes a drink. Good times.
 
Its good but not phenomenal, like it used to be.
In fact I already figured that if I'm gonna live the way I wanna live, and retire like I want, I will probably need to be making 125-150 a year and save much of it.
 
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