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$480k base. Lets assume you're the only income but still have to pay childcare (single parent)

Take home $22k a month

$10k on a swanky place like

or

Leaving $9k a month

$9k a month is still more than I have ever dreamed of making and that's after housing and childcare?

Insane

$9K/mo translates to a little over a hundred grand annually. That's not that much in our industry.

That's $9k/mo free spending _after_ taxes, _after_ childcare, and _after_ exorbitantly luxurious housing.

Yeah, this is what I mean

Sure, 9k pre-tax and pre-childcare and pre-housing isn't that unusual in our industry

But takehome after that is a really incredible salary.

Especially given how ridiculous that housing is

$9k a month after tax is about $150k before tax.

The median individual salary in California is about $50-60k

$480k on its own (ignoring stock) is a ridiculous level, it's $285k after tax.

Yet someone with $1b in investments "earning" 10% makes $270k every day.

Someone with a "mere" $10m makes that $480k gross every 6 months.

young cosmopolitan tech workers are not particularly likely to have children.