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Poll: Your income bracket in 2009?
How much did you earn in 2009?
- abraham 17y agoWhat about people under $50k?
- rokhayakebe 17y agoFixed.
- pedoh 17y agoI'd modify it so that you have upper bounds in order to avoid scenarios such as a person making $200k and validly choosing "More than $50k" AND "More than $100k". In other words, force one response only.
- rokhayakebe 17y agoI assumed readers would know not to select More than 1M and More than 50K.
- ncarlson 17y agoPolling and assumptions about behavior don't mix well.
- houseabsolute 17y agoEh, if you can't figure this poll out you probably aren't making more than 50k anyway.
- Scriptor 17y agoWhat should students choose? Less than 50k or should there be a new option?
- yagibear 17y agoThese figures will be distorted by many on HN who are building equity in businesses rather than drawing income.
- chancho 17y agoIt will also by distorted by those who are playing the lotto but have not yet won it.
- ca98am79 17y agofunniest thing I've read all week - thanks
- hapless 17y agoThey will also be distorted by the large number of readers concentrated in the coasts.
- jexe 17y agoIsn't HN's particular distortion the point of the exercise?
- yagibear 17y agoIf so, then what is the reference point against which the distortion is measured?
- hyperbovine 17y agoI ... guess you could call it that. Really I just don't like to work. (For someone else, on something that isn't interesting.) I would like to believe that the hours I spend each day studying, playing music and exercising count as "equity", but I could just as easily see it leading to nothing career-wise. The funny part is, I'm happier than I have ever been! BTW my 2009 AGI was $22k, and I live in the Bay Area. It's doable.
- rscott 17y ago
- benologist 17y agoI made a lousy $20k last year, but I also made my analytics platform so that year's not a total writeoff.
- rscott 17y agoFirst to parse this page into a snazzy histogram that automatically updates gets an upvote.
- tapostrophemo 17y agoYou mean like this? http://www.eastofcleveland.com/misc/hn2009sal.php http://www.eastofcleveland.com/misc/hn2009sal.php Edit: I guess I'm cheating, in that it doesn't "automatically" update...but just visit that, and keep hitting F5.
- edward 17y agoThe specified CGI application misbehaved by not returning a complete set of HTTP headers.
- olalonde 17y agoI don't pay myself, everything goes back in the business.
- rscott 17y agoIt's how much you earned. It would be the gross, so the cash you pumped back into a business wouldn't matter for this answer.
- robryan 17y agoInteresting that because of the amount of people doing startups on HN the average income is probably actually quiet low. Whereas I'd imagine to earning potential of the HN community would be high if everyone got the jobs they could get if they didn't want to start their own venture.
- ozres1 17y agohow do you set up the poll?
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- blasdel 17y agohttp://news.ycombinator.com/newpoll http://news.ycombinator.com/newpoll You need a few hundred karma to post one.
- r0s 17y agoI made less than 10k last year. My work is very close to my home, I have two part time jobs. One lets me work on anything I want as long as I sit in front of a computer. The other is hands on experience running a friends small business. Combined these total 22 hours a week. Quit my full-time job a couple years ago to learn about programming and pursue business ideas. It's not so bad being poor once you get into the groove. I cook all my meals, do my own car repairs and garden. Free time = quality of life.
- s3b 17y agoQuality of life would depend also on the place you live. In a cheap country <50k would be more than enough to have a good lifestyle.
- callmeed 17y agoThis is gross/pre-tax, yes?
- lleger 17y agoCollege student and bootstrapping a startup? Yeah...
- prodigal_erik 17y agohttp://pleaserobme.com/ http://pleaserobme.com/ should be happy with this new data source.