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We ultimately pay well over 50% in taxes. If I were grossing $1m a year, let’s assume I net $450k (in reality it’s less) after all the taxes we are hit with with as K1 earners. Now assume I have a $6k a month expense between mortgage and property taxes (I bet most partners pay more than me but I’m being conservative), which knocks me down to $372k. Now remove $40k for self-employed health insurance for my family… $332k.
401k removes $23.5k and backdoor Roth another $7k for my and my spouse … $294.5k.
529 plans for 2 kids: maybe $20k… $284.5k.
Now, all the living expenses (for 4-5 people) of childcare, food, clothing, cars, plus add in any “fun things” like vacations and that residual number can dwindle pretty quick to something more like $100k a year in true discretionary savings, and that’s me assuming very moderate living costs in terms of schools, car payments, and other discretionary activities.

TO BE CLEAR: none of us are going hungry nor deserving of pity, but hopefully this helps you understand why the “make partner and immediately retire” concept rarely happens in practice

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SC2–for the love of Mike, please max out your 401k savings now and forever.

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C1 — $1mm gives you 40k in safe withdrawals. Not sure how that’s enough for most people in large cities (not leanfire types).

The main difference is kids. Wife and I are both first year MDs with no kids. Probably HHI of $900k per year. Could fairly easily save $250-350k per year if we wanted.

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100% this.

Don’t forget the Porsche 911 payments and property tax on multiple properties. Tough times my friend 🪙

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I drive a 2012 Ford Focus.

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Don’t forget about the pension too!

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