What salary would be "enough" for you

[Archbob]

So, I was just wondering to you guys: How much would your salary/profits have to be each year before you would not expend considerable amounts of energy to make even more. In other words: How much is "enough" for you to make you completely happy.

For me, if I had a family of 4(which is what I'm planning in the future), I'd say $350,000 per year(adjusted for inflation of course) is "enough".

 

[Colonel]

10 million a year. I think that is a reasonable amount of money. With that being said I would at the very least play the stock market\invest\save money I wouldn't go out of my way to get an even better job or open any businesses or anything. Just have fun most of the time and spend a minor amount of time saving\stocks\investing.

 

[Godwynn]

Until the interest payments and dividends pay for all of my expenses, and then some extra to generate more the next year.

 

[fishmonger]

When I'm making more money than I can spend.

 

[Luckymoose]

When I'm making more money than I can spend.

That's easy to do at any level. You just have to understand control. I use to make a few hundred bucks a week and I couldn't spend it all because I know control.

100,000 a year would be enough for me around here.

 

[Steph]

I currently have 35 000 € after taxes. My wife is unemployed, and it's a bit hard to finish some months (well, not hard, I won't complain, but we have little room to manoeuvre, and when her unemployment benfits end, it may be more difficult)

To be at ease, I'd like to have enough to really compensate for her not working, plus a little more extra (enough to change car, finis some work in the house).

Let say 60000 € / year after taxes, and I would be happy.

 

[Mise]

I voted $200,000 (£130,000), but I just want to earn more than my Dad did

Right now, at 25, my salary is quite enough for me, though that doesn't preclude me from looking for better jobs of course.

 

[Cheetah]

For me there is no upper limit. I have no such thing as "enough" incoming cash flow. Why should anyone ever consider an upper limit??

A "comfortable" yearly minimum-income for me would be around €50,000 I suppose.

 

[Mise]

Well it's assuming you would have to do more work or change jobs in order to get more money. Sometimes, even the upheaval of moving to a new company in the same city would make getting a job that moved you from £40k to £45k too burdensome to consider, even if it didn't involve any more work than you currently do.

 

[Disgustipated]

some greedy people here.

$50,000 is all I need. Why do you guys really need more? What the hell are you going to do with that much money?

 

[Tommy Vercetti]

There is no such thing as having too much money. If you ask me money is the root of all happiness. So you can NEVER have too much money.

 

[Loppan Torkel]

The average salary in Sweden is a couple of thousands below 50000$ (that's before paying some pretty hefty taxes..), which is more than enough to live a decent life.

 

[philippe]

100 billion yen

 

[holy king]

50 000 euros is more than enough. why would you need more?
so you can buy stuff people envy you for?

 

[philippe]

50 000 euros is more than enough. why would you need more?
so you can buy stuff people envy you for?

weed and whores

 

[holy king]

weed and whores

you wont care for whores if you buy weed for a 100 billion yen.

 

[Disgustipated]

the average wage in the U.S. is $43000 a year. That's about what I make before taxes. Taxes rip me a new one because I don't have kids, so I bring home significantly less.

I can't see what you guys are doing with over $50,000 a year. But most of the responses in this thread are Americans, perhaps that explains it.

And no socialist or communist better say anything over 50,000 or I will call them out on it.

The only reason to insist on making more money than $50,000 is to buy things to prove your supposed "superiority"over the common man. No one needs to drive around in a BMW or a Porche. That's sickening considering you could be using that money for charity.

I drive around in a Toyota, that's all I need.

 

[Mise]

Have you ever driven a BMW or Porche? They are amazingly fun. You can drive a Toyota if you want, but saying that they're "as good as" a BMW or Porche is just plain wrong.

Oh, and BMWs are very different to Porches.

 

[Tee Kay]

Edit: never mind. Dumb response.

 

[downtown]

I think it depends on how old I am, and what my needs are. Right now, if I got a job in the low 40,000s, I wouldn't look for another one, since that would comfortably take care of my needs, and allow me to build up a savings. In a few years, once I start looking to get married, I'd want to bump it up a little bit.

I can't really imagine a scenario where I'd really need more than say, 90,000, and depending on what my wife did, that number could be even lower. I had a pretty comfortable life growing up in a family of five where my parent's combined income was less than that, but I didn't grow up in a city.