Living Off of Interest [modified]
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How much money would you have to have to live off of interest at a rate of 50k a year before taxes. The estimate must factor in inflation. So how much money would you need to receive and maintain the purchasing power of 50k a year? Lets say the APY is about 3%.] I calculated you would need 5 million generating 5% interest putting 4% of the interest back in and taking 1% for spending. How hard is it to get 5 million dollars?
modified on Thursday, May 14, 2009 8:23 PM
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Intel 4004 wrote:
How much money would you have to have to live off of interest at a rate of 50k a year before taxes
The real question is, how can someone live on only 50k a year ?
Intel 4004 wrote:
How hard is it to get 5 million dollars?
Well, they don't give it away. To get that sort of money, you'd need to start a business that is very successful. Or break some laws, I guess.
Christian Graus Driven to the arms of OSX by Vista. "I am new to programming world. I have been learning c# for about past four weeks. I am quite acquainted with the fundamentals of c#. Now I have to work on a project which converts given flat files to XML using the XML serialization method" - SK64 ( but the forums have stuff like this posted every day )
Christian Graus wrote:
The real question is, how can someone live on only 50k a year ?
Depends on where you live, over here that's ALLOT of money (in comparison I have around $25k (after tax), and that's a nice pay-check).
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Christian Graus wrote:
The real question is, how can someone live on only 50k a year ?
Depends on where you live, over here that's ALLOT of money (in comparison I have around $25k (after tax), and that's a nice pay-check).
Yeah, that's a good point. $44k is the average wage at home. It costs more to live in Australia. A restaurant meal costs me $100 at home ( for two adults, two kids ). That's average, not a nice place. My Prius cost $54k
Christian Graus Driven to the arms of OSX by Vista. "I am new to programming world. I have been learning c# for about past four weeks. I am quite acquainted with the fundamentals of c#. Now I have to work on a project which converts given flat files to XML using the XML serialization method" - SK64 ( but the forums have stuff like this posted every day )
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Yeah, that's a good point. $44k is the average wage at home. It costs more to live in Australia. A restaurant meal costs me $100 at home ( for two adults, two kids ). That's average, not a nice place. My Prius cost $54k
Christian Graus Driven to the arms of OSX by Vista. "I am new to programming world. I have been learning c# for about past four weeks. I am quite acquainted with the fundamentals of c#. Now I have to work on a project which converts given flat files to XML using the XML serialization method" - SK64 ( but the forums have stuff like this posted every day )
Christian Graus wrote:
My Prius cost $54k
Zowie! Is that in AU$? Ours was $19K USD.
Sovereign ingredient for a happy marriage: Pay cash or do without. Interest charges not only eat up a household budget; awareness of debt eats up domestic felicity. --Lazarus Long Avoid the crowd. Do your own thinking independently. Be the chess player, not the chess piece. --Ralph Charell
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Intel 4004 wrote:
How much money would you have to have to live off of interest at a rate of 50k a year before taxes
The real question is, how can someone live on only 50k a year ?
Intel 4004 wrote:
How hard is it to get 5 million dollars?
Well, they don't give it away. To get that sort of money, you'd need to start a business that is very successful. Or break some laws, I guess.
Christian Graus Driven to the arms of OSX by Vista. "I am new to programming world. I have been learning c# for about past four weeks. I am quite acquainted with the fundamentals of c#. Now I have to work on a project which converts given flat files to XML using the XML serialization method" - SK64 ( but the forums have stuff like this posted every day )
From as far back as 2002, apparantly 71 percent of the US population lives on UNDER 50k a year, well up to at least.: Gross Income Americans % of Population $1 – $50,000 92,594,960 71.185% $50,000 – $75,000 17,396,916 13.374% $75,000 – $100,000 9,247,839 7.110% $100,000 – $200,000 8,422,603 6.475% $200,000 – $500,000 1,908,466 1.467% $500,000 – $1,000,000 336,684 0.259% $1,000,000 – $1,500,000 78,121 0.060% $1,500,000 – $2,000,000 31,316 0.024% $2,000,000 – $5,000,000 44,205 0.034% $5,000,000 – $10,000,000 10,026 0.008% $10,000,000 + 5,309 0.004%
This statement is false