How much do you want to make annually in your mid 30s?

Assume these figures are in todays dollars, although everything may likely cost ~40% more by the time we get to that age based on the prior decades inflation numbers

Ideal annual income by mid 30s?

$50k-$150k
0% (1 vote)
$150-$250k
4% (10 votes)
$250k-$300k
6% (16 votes)
$300k-$400k
9% (25 votes)
$400k-$500k
11% (29 votes)
$500k-$750k
18% (48 votes)
$750k-$1mm
17% (45 votes)
$1mm+
36% (97 votes)
Total votes: 271
10 Comments
 

Wow at first I thought the responses were high but perhaps these answers are based on what people expect things to cost by that point, CoL is wild in coastal cities

 
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U don't want to have higher level of money then level of your Brain and education level. 

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If you got more brain then money

than

"If you always put limits on everything you do, physical or anything else, it will spread into your work and into your life. There are no limits. There are only plateaus, and you must not stay there, you must go beyond them." - Bruce Lee
 

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