To those with full time jobs..

[Syringer]

By dollar figures or percentages, I'm interested in knowing how much goes into housing, car payments, food, savings etc..be as specific or broad as you want.

 

[her209]

20% to rent
6% to utilities
6% to food
3% to gas
rest goes towards loans

 

[z0mb13]

20% to rent

80% to beer

 

[nageov3t]

Rent: 30%
Utilities: 10%
Food/Gas: 15%
Other (clothes, toys, going out, unexpected emergencies, etc): 25%
Savings: 20%

 

[CrazyDe1]

50% mortgage
7% to food
5% to gas
10% to fun
3% to cable
5% for gas and utilities
3% for motorcycle


This is after tax income...
Not including what I make on the side, and not including roommate income

Although most of my gas, cell phone, and cable modem are expensed to my business...

 

[kranky]

Major categories:

car expenses 5%
donations/gifts 12%
taxes 22%
insurance (all types) 5%
utilities 4%
savings 20%
housing 10%
vacation 5%
food 10%

 

[digitalchris]

5% rent
2% all bills
4% car
8% leisure
7% tuition
2% book and misc expensese related to school
72% reinvest into business

 

[HardcoreRobot]

17% longest term savings
18% taxes
22% rent/util
15% longer term savings
25% alcohol and prostitutes and food (well not really, but for toys and eating and stuff)

yeah that doesnt add up to 100 but im intoxicated

 

[Baked]

50% rent
50% porn

 

[quakefiend420]

about 10% rent
about 15% food
about 25% car/insurance
about 8% or so gasoline
about 8% utilities/cell
the rest is pretty much blown on electronics and playing...i try to save...it doesnt work out

 

[Apathetic]

50% of my take home pay (after taxes) goes towards my mortgage. While this normally is too high, I have a 15 year mortgage as opposed to a 30 year and I pay extra every month. I *REALLY* want to turn my 15 year mortgage into a 12 year one.

20% goes towards savings.

I don't have any other bills. School loans, car, etc have all been payed of for several years now.

Dave

 

[moshquerade]

Originally posted by: Syringer
By dollar figures or percentages, I'm interested in knowing how much goes into housing, car payments, food, savings etc..be as specific or broad as you want.

i make so much money i don't have to budget
i just roll in it all day

 

[jtusa]

About 50-60% of take home pay goes to bills, the rest is saved or spent on toys or both.

 

[spidey07]

30% mortgage
10% car
10% other bills
10% 401k
8% groceries
15% play money (gas, entertainment, etc)

 

[otispunkmeyer]

winnar

 

[b0mbrman]

All percentages are of take-home pay

7% Retirement savings
8% Investing
40% Mortgage (but receive rental income that increases my take-home pay by 30%)
15% Car payments, insurance, gas, and upkeep
15% Food
2% Work expenses
7% Utilities (includes cell phone)
5% Student loan
5% (Spread across multiple months of course) Travel

 

[vi edit]

30% mortgage
15% car
20% other bills
10% 401k
15% groceries/fuel/misc

We're on only one income until my wife graduates in May.

 

[randomlinh]

14% loans
try 10-15% savings
5-10% on food (including eating out)
5% on gas
the rest to the bills so I can have them all paid off in a couple of months

no rent for now (at home).

 

[Bullhonkie]

40% rent
18% savings
13% car loan/insurance
10% basic necessities (groceries and gas)
5% utilities/bills
5% superfluous/fun

Doesn't quite add up to 100%. Any leftover usually gets applied to the car loan to pay it off sooner.

 

[daveshel]

100% manages to get spent, but beyond that, I haven't the slightest idea.

 

[meltdown75]

100% to wife.

 

[pulse8]

28% rent
13% car and insurance
12% credit card bills
4% last year's taxes
12% utilities
12% on food
19% whatever left over goes to paying down even more of my CC bills

 

[DurocShark]

35% rent
25% auto
15% utilities
balance: bills, food, etc.

 

[wedi42]

car 5%
donations 2%
taxes 21%
insurance 5%
utilities 8%
savings 2%
housing 40%
spiders 5%
food 10%

 

[GTaudiophile]

Approximately:

Money to save or spend at will: 40% (10% of which is typically donated.)
Taxes: 27% (FVCK UNCLE SAM!)
Rent: 14% (Including utilities)
Food: 6% (Regular monthly food expenditure, excluding fast food/restaurants.)
Car Insurance: 2.9%
Health Insurance: 2.5%
Digital Cable: 2.5% (TV and broadband)
Gas: 1.2% (Miatas get good mpg!)
T-Mobile: 1.1%