What percentage or your monthly pre-tax salary are you putting towards rent?

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35% pre tax/health insurance/401k contrition.

After food and everything I basically have zero leftover.

I live alone in nyc. I’m 38 and just can’t imagine having a roommate at this point.

Luckily I have a side gig that earns around $30,000/year so I use that for savings and extras.

Even with that, I’m paying too much in rent.

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500k 😲

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18% - I live in NYC with two roommates in Williamsburg. The place I live in is older and not super updated, but very spacious and we have a patio. It’s a great deal for location and space

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Lol like 45%. SF is a MF.

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20% NYC. Moved to Atlanta and brought it down to 7%

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16%. Rent regulated apt w/zero amenities deep in Bk. I’m a single parent so I have better places to spend my paycheck than on rent.

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12ish%

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30% in NYC

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Almost exactly 1/3 in NYC with a roommate.

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When I was a junior, I lived with 4 people and paid 55% in rent, with an hour subway commute each way. pay. your. employees.

The real question here is why you would calculate based on pre-tax numbers? What good is counting money you don’t get?

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@VP I’m getting pay stubs if I sign into a work portal. It’s just more aggressive asking everyone on here to check their pay stub and calculate post tax and pre dedication salary when everyone knows their pre tax salary immediately.

We get it you work in analytics and like exact numbers jeez.

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Own. But about 18%.

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32%, I'm in T.O.

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Toronto.

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13.5%, live with partner

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finding someone who loves you in a major city to live with in your 20s to split a 1bed/studio apartment+ is the most financially responsible thing you can do.

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32% in Boston

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Boston housing is expensive AF

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Renting about 18% now but I got a pandemic deal, before the deal and when my salary was lower it was 29%. I live in nyc with a roomate

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25% Washington DC. Don’t love that, but not much to be done about it in expensive cities.

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20%. NYC.

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20% Chicago

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9% in Boulder/Denver

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20% in LA

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My mortgage is 16% of my gross income in ATX.

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7%. I work in NYC, live in NJ (rent is extremely cheap here) and split rent with SO.

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