<p>My dad makes ~175K and we live very comfortably [5 people, Houston burbs]</p>
<p>Personally… I want to make the equivalent of >200K as a single.</p>
<p>This really depends on where you are (cost of living, culture, etc.), how you were raised (working class, middle class, upper class) and personal preference (ascetic, hedonistic, etc.)</p>
<p>I would like to have enough money to buy (with mortgage) a house (two-story, several bed, few bath), buy a couple of dependable new cars (one for me, one for my wife), raise a few kids and help them pay for college, and retire comfortably. I’d like to be able to afford nice clothes and to go out to eat and to the movies occasionally. In the area where I live now, with my upbringing, I estimate that if I eventually earned $120k/yr, I’d have plenty of money to make this happen (note: I’d assume my wife were working too).</p>
<p>If we’re talking about living alone… I wouldn’t need a house or a nice car… just enough to party. Given my current location and upbringing, $50k/yr would be more than enough to party hard every day and live in a nice one-bedroom apartment with all the bachelor-pad trimmings.</p>
<p>I think there’s a difference between people who say that you need $100k/yr to live in Manhattan (probably true) and people who say they need $300k/yr because that’s what their parents made. No you don’t need $300k/yr to live “comfortably”. You need that much to live like a spoiled brat, but not “comfortably”. Ask your $300k/yr parents how much you need to live “comfortably” and see whether they can’t talk some sense into you.</p>
<p>I need atleast 950,000$</p>
<p>But in all serious.</p>
<p>If you could make that much money why not?
Some things in life you cannot get with 100k a year.</p>
<p>There’s nothing wrong with wanting expensive toys in life.</p>
<p>Anyone who says otherwise probably failed so much in life that they can’t even earn a decent 50,000$ a year.</p>
<p>You shouldn’t make money your goal, but you shouldn’t shun stuff like mansions either.</p>
<p>It’s perfectly normal to enjoy expensive things. Obsessing over them is when the problem kicks in.</p>
<p>There is no end-all-be-all rule in life that says one cannot use money to enjoy themselves. It’s your damn life, your damn money and your own damn success. Enjoy it the way you want and who cares what others think.</p>
<p>WOW. You, sir, are a complete jerk. Anyone who makes less than $50k is a failure? Kids like you make me not even want to go to college. My mother makes just over $40k a year and has worked harder than anyone else I’ve ever met to get to where she is. Education wasn’t handed to us. A home wasn’t handed to us. Money to go on vacations and buy fancy things sure as hell wasn’t handed to us. And you know what? I learned more in my 17 short years of living like this than you will in a lifetime. Go screw yourself you arrogant little brat. </p>
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<p>@ Drumwriter22
“Anyone who makes less than $50k is a failure?”
I have never uttered those words.</p>
<p>You mis-understood.</p>
<p>I meant those who did not understand what I was saying couldn’t make that much. They couldn’t make 40k or 30k and so on and so on. 50k was just a number I pulled up in that range.</p>
<p>I really was talking about the high school drop outs/ lazy people who take low paying jobs. Not your mom who makes 40k.</p>
<p>I did not say those under 50k were failures.</p>
<p>And that’s fine if education or money wasn’t handed to you that’s great!
What I really meant was those that EARN their money have the right to do whatever the hell they want with it.</p>
<p>It’s meant to go against those who bash people for spending loads of their own cash on stuff other people call “taste-less.” Most of the time the people saying that are people who are failures themselves.</p>
<p>It was directed towards those who said that anybody who needs over 100k is a selfish brat. Not everybody who wants over 100k is a selfish brat.</p>
<p>There are plenty of people who work just as hard as your mom that make millions.</p>
<p>What I am saying is that there are rich people who have worked just as hard if not harder.
And you shouldn’t single them out because they have money and expensive things.</p>
<p>And yes, all of them can live without it, but it doesn’t mean that they can’t live that way. I am not insulting your mother or anything, I believe she is a very hard working person. I am saying the difference sometimes Between a CEO and say a mechanic is that the CEO was luckier. Lower cash to Longer hours ratio does not make that person any hard working than the more successful one.</p>
<p>And the reason why I want so much money is so that any situation requiring money in the future will be covered.</p>
<p>To live comfortably is to live without stress. If you see the movie Sicko it talks about how even some of the middle class can’t afford health care.</p>
<p>And with more money you can do more stuff to help more people.</p>
<p>But then again, I’ve probably misunderstood the earlier post which required my response.</p>
<p>The one about people needing to live with that much money are selfish.
I mistook need with have.</p>
<p>Having the money and using it to your liking is perfectly fine.
Cannot live without it absolutely needing it is selfish.</p>
<p>I live with parents who have a salary over $200,000. To live comfortably, I want to make at least $500,000. After college, I plan on going to FCW and getting into sports entertainment. Which depends on my contract, can make 40,000-600,000. But this is my dream job, so my plan B is to be a marine biologist. Also, I plan on marrying someone who is well off, probably older then me to.</p>
<p>Wow, just thought I’d echo a lot of people on here: I’m amazed to see people yearning for 200,000, even 500,000+! That’s all well and good, but I personally wouldn’t even know what to do with that money. I think if I made any more than 100K, most of it would just be shoved into a savings account. </p>
<p>If I were living on my own, I’d ideally want to make ~50,000 or more. I realize this isn’t likely right out of college, so I’d be content with ~30,000+ for a few years.</p>
<p>some of you are so naive.</p>
<p>uh, something to pay the bills, rent, and put food on the table?
if i can get 50k a year right out of college, then haaay (; however by the time i retire i want my income to rise to 80/90k. if i had a kid, god i’d need more money to save up for his/her college, joy.</p>
<p>i’m pretty sure no one makes 500k right out of college --_-- even if it was possible, i’m not going through 89,780 years of college for thaaaaat</p>
<p>Wow, most of you people in a disillusioned upper-class bubble. I understand the cost of living is different everywhere, but some of your “comfortable” salaries are ridiculous. </p>
<p>I live in a family of seven (two parents, five children) with three cats. We live more than comfortably with $52,000 a year. We have televisions, cables, video game systems, computers, iPods, cell phones, etc. Our bills are covered, and we have no credit card debt. </p>
<p>Would I like to make more than $52,000 a year? Of course! Who wouldn’t? I just think it’s ridiculous that some people think it’s impossible to live on such a salary. You are in for a rude awakening in your early years of your career if you think you need a quarter of a million or a half of a million dollars just to live.</p>
<p>people do make $500,000 right out of college, trust me. You just got to get the right job in entertainment.</p>
<p>@madogmgd
My apologies for reacting so harshly to your post. I understand now how you meant it (though I think it might have been better worded differently). I do not believe that all rich people are snobs nor do I believe that all poor people are hard workers. I live in an area where the majority of the poor people are actually the unemployed lazy sort that you mentioned (though I’m not saying all unemployed people are lazy because some do have true hardships to deal with). I just got the wrong idea from what you said about people not being successful enough to make a “meager” 50k. Honestly, I find this thread very interesting because it really shows the socioeconomic diversity of top students. And personally, to live COMFORTABLY as this thread originally asked I would only need 50-60k but…I want a large family and I HOPE that someday I will be making a combined income with my husband of the 200k some of you have mentioned. While I feel I have grown like crazy because of the lack of resources I’ve had available, I dream of a different kind of life for my kids. I wouldn’t trade my childhood for anything but I hope I can improve for the next generation. Again, I am sorry for the misunderstanding earlier.</p>
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<p>Well, that’s quite a limited career scope. What about everyone else?</p>
<p>$50000 a year</p>
<p>I wanna pay money back to my parents since they complain a lot with my studying cost.</p>
<p>It is limited. But think about it, everyone can do it. There is a type of job for each person. Wether on or off the camera, script, writers, tv, or whatever else.</p>