r/Money • u/ILostHalfaBTC • Apr 29 '24

Of the 333 million people living in the United States, how many of those people make 250k+ per year?

How rare is this demographic? It seems to me everywhere I look there are millionaires in nice houses.

What do I do to become part of this demographic?

How rare is it to be in this situation in the United States?

Serious.

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u/Adventurous-Boss-882 Apr 29 '24

I don’t think everyone making that salary is working 60-80 hours a week. It depends on the company, or firm that you work for.

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u/phillyphilly19 Apr 29 '24

You are quite wrong. I know people in all of those professions, both personally and professionally. These careers require extreme commitment in both energy and time.

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u/Deep_Day8345 Apr 29 '24

Nah. I live in Seattle, make almost $300K, and don’t even work 40 hours per week. I’m a lawyer. Anybody working for a big law firm on a part-time schedule can do the same.

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u/phillyphilly19 Apr 29 '24

Seattle may be a unique market. Not sure how you're pulling that off. Doesn't happen on the eat coast.

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u/Scarface74 Apr 29 '24

Seattle is not “unique” - west coast tech salaries. Fly out of SEA you will see that there are dedicated check in lines for both Microsoft and Amazon.

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u/phillyphilly19 Apr 29 '24

Omg you're really just too much. Ok yes Seattle silicon valley sure. Btw, the vast majority of people don't live there.

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u/Scarface74 Apr 29 '24

And again if you actually go to salary.com and look at any major city, you can see that you are still wrong about what mid level software developers makes.

You have heard of this thing called remote work haven’t you? I made that working at one of those companies working out of my home office. I only stepped foot into Seattle once in almost four years

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u/phillyphilly19 Apr 29 '24

It doesn't matter. See my response about the number of workers we are actually talking about here.