$168k. After taxes. If you assume 30% taxation, she'd have to have a pre-tax salary of $240,000/yr. This is assuming the investor could have obtained 3% per ye

$168k. After taxes. If you assume 30% taxation, she'd have to have a pre-tax salary of $240,000/yr. This is assuming the investor could have obtained 3% per year in relatively safe investments. To break even (which is actually a loss, due to inflation), it would still be somewhere in the $160-170k ballpark.