What is your average family income?

[KittenAdmin]

Again, collecting stats on the furry fandom. All responses are totally anonymous.

Definition of Family Income:

If still a dependent, the combined income if your parental figures. Do not include your own income or that of your siblings.

If you are married, the combined income of you and your spouse. Do not include your kids if you support them and they work.

Obviously you do not have to reveal your income down below, but feel free to discuss career choices or issues with local economy.

Thanks!

 

[Zipline]

Stranger danger! D:
jk. Can dogs make money without being service animals or in commercials or films?
I do not see a noodle conversion option up there. I feel discriminated against.

 

[Zipline]

I only accept premium trash noodles so i should pick the highest leaf monies to be safe.

 

[KittenAdmin]

That's why it's all anonymous. :B

I'm just trying to get a decent baseline for a paper I'm writing.

Noodles are unfortunately not an official currency on Google exchange.

 

[Zipline]

That's why it's all anonymous. :B

I'm just trying to get a decent baseline for a paper I'm writing.

Noodles are unfortunately not an official currency on Google exchange.

But that is what i fill my doggy pockets with! D:
Every dog i know takes noodles in exchange for favors. Only asking money about evolved primates is very offensive for the other species. Mice

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@KittenAdmin

trade in cheese and peanut butter. Cats use fish and Dogs use noodles. To name a few examples.

 

[SoulaCola]

I'm not trying to brag, but I think that you should maybe make the range a bit bigger. I live in an area with a lot of people making 2-3 hundred thousand per year. In major cities it's probably pretty common, especially if you combine parental income.

 

[FoxInTheCloset]

Trying to decide who to rob are we?

 

[Revates]

I am one with the proletariat, my income is the same as all around me. #cummunism

 

[Somnium]

My family makes way more than an average 12k euros per year in my area, where cost of surviving (not living, just to survive) is about 2.5 times lower than in the US. I don't understand how can westerners complain about prices of imported goods, cause they cost everywhere the same, except they are even cheaper in America because no vat.

 

[FoxInTheCloset]

I make enough to live comfortably in an area that isn't cheap to live in at all.

 

[Sforzie]

I'm not sure what this poll will show, exactly? In the US the cost of living varies greatly depending on where you live. What might be considered comfortable in one place would barely be getting by in another location. (I'm sure that's the case in other parts of the world, as well.) But, that's just a thought.
Myself? I'm... poor. But I can pay my bills, so that will do.

 

[ElZorroValdez]

A highball glass.

 

[PlusThirtyOne]

i don't see an option for "squat", "peanuts" or "jack shit". Unfortunately that's what i make.

 

[MEDS]

Done, end of topic!

 

[Synthex]

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He's asking household income though, not individual income. Which basically makes $0 not a viable option. These people have to be supported somehow.

 

[Kellan Meig'h]

My family makes way more than an average 12k euros per year in my area, where cost of surviving (not living, just to survive) is about 2.5 times lower than in the US. I don't understand how can westerners complain about prices of imported goods, cause they cost everywhere the same, except they are even cheaper in America because no vat.

Here in the United States of 'Murrica, 12k Euros (13,600 USD) would put you as homeless, for sure. You would need about 50k Euros to have a median income in the USA but don't expect to live just anywhere. Last year, the wife and I made almost six figures but we live in the San Francisco Bay Area, what might arguably be the highest economy in the USA. WE can't afford to buy a home so we rent a two bedroom dump of an apartment for $2,000 per month. That's about $400 under the average. Housing in my city has a median home price of $905,800 (not a typo) so I can't stay here when I retire. Where I plan to retire in the Mid-West, the median is only $50,000. I have looked at homes in that area (East of Indianapolis, btw) for under $50k (!) that are pretty much move-in ready. My retirement will be more than the median income in that area so my wife and I should be fine.

As far as imported goods, we don't have VAT but I guarantee you a big import markup has been put on that item. I pay some ridiculous markups on my few European and Asian delicacies that I crave from time to time. How about $7 or more for a 15oz bottle of HP sauce? I know my Sky Flakes crackers are twice or more than what they are in the Philippines. So, despite no VAT, they are just as expensive. I'm sorry but imported goods in the USA are not as cheap as you would think.

 

[Rheumatism]

I come from a very poor family. Like poverty level poor.

 

[Nataku]

Like many others have already pointed out in this thread, cost of living varies greatly not just in the US but worldwide, as does median income. So without extra details that would also unfortunately ruin the anonymity of this poll, it is very hard to draw any useful data out of this poll.

For example, I happen to know the same job I perform in my state happens to pay more than twice what I am paid if I were to be working said job in New Jersey. But cost of living is also significantly higher there. How does this poll handle that though? The only difference if I were to answer this poll without that info would be my answer is two sets higher. But I know that were I doing this job in New Jersey, I would be renting, instead of owning a house due to cost of living.

 

[Somnium]

As far as imported goods, we don't have VAT but I guarantee you a big import markup has been put on that item. I pay some ridiculous markups on my few European and Asian delicacies that I crave from time to time. How about $7 or more for a 15oz bottle of HP sauce? I know my Sky Flakes crackers are twice or more than what they are in the Philippines. So, despite no VAT, they are just as expensive. I'm sorry but imported goods in the USA are not as cheap as you would think.

idk whenever I look at amazon.com, everything looks so cheap there compared to EU, even cars. Yea local food, services and housing are more expensive.

WE can't afford to buy a home

Isn't it what mortgages are for? You take out one and slowly pay back through the rest of your live.

 

[FoxInTheCloset]

Isn't it what mortgages are for? You take out one and slowly pay back through the rest of your live.

I wish it was that simple.

 

[Kellan Meig'h]

Isn't it what mortgages are for? You take out one and slowly pay back through the rest of your live.

Remember what I posted about median home pricing? That "Median" home where I live currently, at roughly $900,000 minus 20% down leaves $720,000 plus closing costs. CapitolOne is offering 3.125% interest rate so on a 30 year loan, that's over $4,000 USD per month. Not affordable to the masses that won't live three or four families in a home or immigrated to the USA with a butt-load of cash to spend.

Quite the eye opener. The USA isn't what everyone not from here thinks.

 

[Yakamaru]

...Family income? What my parents earn is of no concern of mine. I also do not know.

 

[Somnium]

Remember what I posted about median home pricing? That "Median" home where I live currently, at roughly $900,000 minus 20% down leaves $720,000 plus closing costs. CapitolOne is offering 3.125% interest rate so on a 30 year loan, that's over $4,000 USD per month. Not affordable to the masses that won't live three or four families in a home or immigrated to the USA with a butt-load of cash to spend.

Quite the eye opener. The USA isn't what everyone not from here thinks.

A home, you mean a house? Because if so, houses are for riches, while masses should only dream about a 2 room apartment under the bridge.

 

[TeslaSkunk]

I really don't see why it should matter on this site.. its a little personal isn't it?

 

[Kellan Meig'h]

A home, you mean a house? Because if so, houses are for riches, while masses should only dream about a 2 room apartment under the bridge.

My two room hovel of an apartment is not under the bridge. That would be upscale from where I am currently.

*waves from over between the dump and the oil recycling plant*