Financial Demographics?

[Con]

I live in Boston

Lots of nice parts but you pay for them

Con

[endfire79]

I misread, I think I meant airboy!

[Mr. Bigglesworth]

My gross income is all over the map. On my last project my cheque was about 150k IIRC. When getting a line of credit with the bank I made my stated income on this, doing a project every 2 years (to start) So I stated $75k. I deposited it with them so they have "Proof of income". Without a property sale my income is Zero. There is also high risk, with many events (mostly weather) out of my control. As the business grows I expect to do 1 per year. Until that happens ... :(

I should add the lawyer removes 15% capital gains before giving you the cheque.

[Jarhead0331]

bump for more votes. The stats so far are interesting, but not surprising.

[LongBlade]

I am slightly surprised, that they're quite as high as they are. Then again, the last demographic survey we did didn't probe beyond six figures.

Several years ago (maybe more than a decade) we ran a survey asking similar questions. The results came back that approximately 20% of the readership had better than a college education and about the same percent made over six figures (I don't think we went beyond $100,000+).

Not long after I was chatting with the folks from StrategyPage and they shared their demographics - the results were similar enough to not consider ours a fluke.

That said there were a substantial number of folks with only a high school education, or with just some college. The average (and I recognize that has several definitions which can cause the outcome to vary) was ~$50k.

[airboy]

I misread, I think I meant airboy!

Auburn is regularly listed as one of the nicest small towns to live in for the entire USA.  Tuscaloosa probably is also.  Huntsville also frequently ranks very high.