What’s your personal cost of capital?

If you were to go about calculating a discount rate to NPV financial decisions (i.e., lease or buy a car, or house, etc…), how would you compute your own discount rate? Would you use a risk free? Would you determine what the expected return of your investments are (e.g., 75% S&P and 25% bond fund)?

Question for all the folks with more experience than me.

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Base comp between 230-300, call it 250 to make math simple. 250/12=20ish a month pre tax. Max 401k, around 2k per month contribution, is 18k pre tax. This results in 24k + employer match yearly. Adds up. Let’s say 40% all in tax = 11ish post tax. 15% of that is ~1.6k a month that always goes in brokerage to dollar cost average a bit. That leaves around 9k a month. To make numbers easy, let’s say 5k a month for a nice 1 bedroom. That leaves 4k a month for miscellaneous shit like energy and cell phone, and then have a couple grand to play with a month.

Bonus is variable but 1 or 2 good years and your portfolio is sitting pretty dumping it in.

 

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