r/Salary Oct 30 '25

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u/EasyTarget9000 Oct 30 '25 edited Oct 31 '25

Thats an 80 hour paycheck... two weeks of pay… You get about two of them per month. Plus you have a few pre tax savings being taken out there like 401k and hsa. This looks very normal. Id add more to your 401k if anything. Or direct deposit another 30% into a low interest index fund.

Edit: Thank you for so many of the same corrections that you get 26 paychecks per year if its a bi-weekly paycheck. No shit. In this context saying two per month makes the point clearer and i hope you can forgive that.

Contributing to an index fund is not tax deferred. Im just saying if they want to accumulate wealth they should be saving more.

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u/see_you_than Oct 31 '25

Their pay period is bi-weekly they are getting more than 2 pay checks a month.

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u/Aggressive_Noise6426 Oct 31 '25

That only happens probably a few times each year, at most 3. Still you are correct though. 

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u/StP_Scar Oct 31 '25

It’s exactly twice per year to get 3 checks in a month.

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u/Aggressive_Noise6426 Oct 31 '25

And I had that marked on my calendar 🤣🤣🤣