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Ask HN: What's your salary?
How much do you make annually from salary + consulting + recurring revenue?
- phlux 15y agoYou should submit this as a poll: Salary == <50K/year <100K/year <150K/year <200K/year >200K/year
- mooism2 15y agoIn which case, specify a currency in the poll. The initial question is currency-neutral, commenters can specify their own $/£/€/whatever, but you can't do that while answering a poll. Not that I've any idea what level exchange rates are at these days.
- ColinWright 15y agoRendered meaningless by different countries.
- akkartik 15y agoYep. Let me use this thread for an alternative phrasing. What is your annual income / your monthly expenses? < 12? 12-18? 18-24? 24-36? >36?
- ColinWright 15y agoAlternatively, what's your salary in liters of Coca-Cola? Or Mars bars?
- lukesandberg 15y agoeveryone knows that the Big Mac Index is the best way to compare purchasing power (http://www.economist.com/markets/bigmac/about.cfm http://www.economist.com/markets/bigmac/about.cfm)
- akkartik 15y agoIs it really that arbitrary? Instead of measuring country- and inflation-sensitive dollars I'm advocating measuring how your income affects your runway.
- ColinWright 15y agoThen why didn't you ask for that? You asked about salary, mentioning nothing about expenses or other commitments. That's a different question entirely. What are you really asking?
- akkartik 15y agoI don't understand this comment at all. (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2569633 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2569633 mentions 'monthly expenses'.)
- ColinWright 15y agoBut then you mention "runway", which makes me wonder whether you're talking about me, or my company, or my other company, or my money earning side project, or my other money earning side project, or what. In short, I don't know what you're asking for. Judging from the other replies, no one else does either. I'm sure there's an interesting question here, but I don't know what it is.
- bartonfink 15y agoNot as much as I'd like, but not little enough to move to the Bay Area or NYC and take the hit to my quality of life.
- veyron 15y agoThis is not a good question to ask for a few reasons: 1) if you are running a successful and growing startup, your salary should be as low as possible (you want to funnel as much as possible into the business) 2) if you are running an S-corp in a specific area, you are forced to take a salary determined to be "reasonable" 3) if you are working in finance, the scale is fundamentally different compared to working in tech or in a startup. 4) Cost of living is much less in some areas (e.g. texas) compared to others (e.g new york city)