Should I feel guilty about not really having savings for my brokerage every month? I max out my monthly 401k and HSA pre-tax contributions, but find it tough to have money left with normal spending and $5k rent (gf pays $3k) for additions to my normal taxable account. It seems like a lot in rent but that’s what a decent 2 br costs downtown NYC.
31yo, A2A since undergrad now a VP3. Have net worth of ~$1.1mm. Prob $1.4mm gf and I combined.
I save all of my bonus every year. Don’t have any major expenses besides will need to buy a ring soon.
Should I lay off myself or do I need a tough lesson and probably downsize rent? My base will go up $25k next year, but wouldn’t be surprised if rent raises slightly.
Thoughts?
Analyzing it in terms of frequency vs total rate is a pretty useless way to look at it. What's your annual gross TC, and how much are you saving?
Save 40-50% of TC
Just because bonus is usually a little more than base and then have taxes to pay on withholding throughout the year
If you want to nitpick, you're missing out on some of the advantages of dollar cost averaging by having your only brokerage contribution be one lump sum payment every year. But you're still saving enough in the aggregate, and theoretically have a long enough time horizon that it shouldn't matter.
Also let's be real, $8k in rent is a ton of money and is probably a super nice place, it's not like it's the baseline to be out of the slums. Plenty of decent 2 BRs for $4-5k
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