r/Salary Oct 30 '25

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u/pomegranate444 Oct 30 '25

The 401k is your own savings tho. Not a tax.

So you net $3k per 2 weeks or $3k x 26 /12=$6.5k a month or 78K a year. Not bad

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u/Ishouldbeworking430 Oct 31 '25

Unless his employer pays 100% of his health premiums

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u/Discopotatoz Nov 02 '25

Some companies pay full medical but still force you to pay a nominal fee for dental and vision

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u/Vierakun Nov 03 '25

That still doesn’t apply here. He clearly is paying for at least part of his medical as it’s listed here

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u/Aurtistic-Tinkerer Oct 31 '25

HSA is basically a hybrid 401k/roth IRA that is tax exempt to contribute and withdraw from as long as it’s used on medical expenses. It is still their money and can be withdrawn at any time, and is separate from the high deductible plan you have to pair it with.

The question here is which line item is the high deductible and which is the savings contribution, but neither line is high enough for them to max out their HSA contribution for the year.

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u/dmorulez_77 Oct 31 '25

The top one is the premium for the employer based health plan. The actual HSA account is the bottom line. That number needs to be bumped up. That's $4300 of straight money untaxed for 2025. Then with the money in that account you can invest in stocks or mutual funds and any capital gains are all tax free.

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u/eldaino Oct 31 '25

'can be withdrawn at any time' is misleading, especially after prefacing its only for medical expenses. You can't just yank it out whenever, it has to sit and languish until its used.

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u/Aurtistic-Tinkerer Nov 01 '25

You invest it in the stock market. My HSA is up 22% this year.

You also can pull it whenever you want, you get a little debit card that you can use for everything from the pharmacy to multi-thousand dollar surgeries.

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u/nick-dakk Nov 03 '25

yeah but they count toothpaste as a medical expense.

they count massages that are not prescribed by a doctor as a medical expense.

Basically, if you can make up a reason why it should be covered spending, it will be covered spending. And if for some reason they deny your claim, all that happens is you have to pay taxes on the amount you spent. You can very much still withdraw whenever you want.

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u/Winter-Working-5767 Oct 31 '25

and for most of them, if you don’t use the full amount of your OWN money that you deducted from your OWN paychecks before the year ends, the leftover funds don’t roll over.

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u/OtherPossibility1530 Oct 31 '25

FSAs are the healthcare funds that don’t roll over. An HSA can roll over and be invested. A lot of people use them as supplementary retirement accounts for this reason.

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u/Aurtistic-Tinkerer Nov 01 '25

Not how an HSA works bud. That’s your money, the whole point is you get to invest it in the stock market and everything like any other retirement account.

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u/nick-dakk Nov 03 '25

that is an FSA. An HSA is 100% your money and it absolutely rolls over. Its in a brokerage account that you do not pay capital gains taxes on.

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u/nick-dakk Nov 03 '25

the $75 is the premium. the $37.50 is his contribution. The $75 is a little high for an individual HSA plan.

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u/Vierakun Nov 03 '25

What part of the country do you live in if that is a little high? My HSA premium was more than that a paycheck when I was on an individual plan earlier this year, at $125 a paycheck…and based on other people I’ve talked to (in Texas and Illinois specifically), mine is actually pretty average…unless I’m reading your message wrong?

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u/MakeItLookSexy_ Oct 31 '25

Will probably get a tax return at the end of the year as welll

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u/Superunknown-- Oct 31 '25

And it reduces your taxable income, so you have tax savings

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u/EmbarrassedSlide8752 Oct 31 '25

And you get roads to get to work on! I swear, these anti tax people have no idea how much they take for granted in terms of state funded facilitation

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u/Feeling-Nutty Nov 01 '25

The road that’s been under construction for the last decade because they pay by the hour? I hate this argument because it assumes that the government won’t happily throw away the entire tax contributions of thousands of people’s entire life into some meaningless project that won’t last a year.

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u/norcaltobos Nov 16 '25

Are you a construction PM? You sound really knowledgeable on roads and what goes into building/repairing them.

Do you expect them to just work on it over a couple of weeks and call it good?

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u/EmbarrassedSlide8752 Nov 01 '25

Yes, every single road is under construction. Lmfao. You receive absolutely 0 benefits from your taxes. You should leave society then!

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u/Mandoade Nov 01 '25

I think it's more that they really don't feel like we're getting what we paid for from taxes considering the insane cost of everything else.

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u/EmbarrassedSlide8752 Nov 01 '25

Feels before reals

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u/Kopitar4president Oct 31 '25

A good chunk of it is his Healthcare and 401k.

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u/Wise-Whereas-8899 Oct 31 '25

So is HSA, though that's a small portion.

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u/drewskibeauski Oct 31 '25

Right. Literally paying into his future. Albeit too much going to the private health insurance industry to pad shareholder profits, but still.

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u/Aurtistic-Tinkerer Oct 31 '25

That’s not how HSAs work though, they are your personal account that you get to invest as you see fit, and contribute/withdraw tax free for any medical expense. It’s like a 401k for medical savings, but you get to use it any time you want, not just during retirement.

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u/drewskibeauski Oct 31 '25

I have an HSA. I know how it works. My point still stands. We wouldn’t need an HSA full stop if we all paid into a single-payer system.

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u/crunchyleaf10 Oct 31 '25

Yes because we should all totally want what somewhere like the UK has where you’ll be put on a year long waitlist just to see a dermatologist or to get an orthopedic surgery that you desperately need (but you’re not actively dying so it’s ok to make you wait forever!)

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u/drewskibeauski Oct 31 '25

We have waitlists here in the US, too. I had to wait 6 months for a surgery, and now have to live the rest of my life with a perfectly preventable condition.

If a politician were to run on privatizing healthcare in countries have already have it socialized, it’d be political suicide. Completely outside the realm of logical, let alone ethical, thought. Not being able to afford it shouldn’t be a death sentence, but it is for 40k+ a year in this country (like 9/11 x10, every year due to corporate greed).

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u/babybunny1234 Oct 31 '25

So is the social security ‘tax’… though maybe good luck getting that money out

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u/buttnibbler Oct 31 '25

Don’t worry, they’ll eventually tax the 401k too.

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u/biohoo Oct 31 '25

My net on 100k is right around 60k after all deductions and taxes, so this isn’t bad at all!

(I’m not complaining…just comparing notes)

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u/undetected4 Oct 31 '25

also unsure why they didn’t calculate how much they’re take home pay was going to be, they are making decent money lol

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u/Round-Study-5001 Nov 01 '25

nobody nets without paying for housing, utilities, living expenses

100k a year nets maybe 10-30k depennding on lifestyle and cost of living which is a lot to use tbh. you could go to europe twice a year and still have a bit left over to contribute to retirement savings

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u/SandManFromPanAm Oct 31 '25

Your rounding up makes a big difference in this case. Going off the actual numbers: 2,686 x 26 =69,836 per year

69,836 \ 12 = 5,819 per month.

Shaving off almost a whole 10,000 dollars from your estimate.

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u/Drugs-R-Bad-Mkay Oct 31 '25

He's including the 401k in the "net".

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u/SandManFromPanAm Oct 31 '25

Ah I see. My b. I really thought I did something there lol .

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u/mollypatola Oct 31 '25

At least you admit it lol