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Re:Why I quit a $500K job at Amazon to work for myself by hinkley on Monday February 11, 2019 @03:08PM (#19137773)
If you're working out a budget to allow you to quit your day job you'd better have all of the numbers in post-tax dollars or you're gonna have a bad time.
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Re:Why I quit a $500K job at Amazon to work for myself by smileysteve on Monday February 11, 2019 @05:48PM (#19139234)
We're taking about a pre-tax salary at 500k. Capital gains means no payroll taxes and discounted long term taxes too.

And 80k is still well over the average household income

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