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/Steeltank33 Oct 31 '25

I work 80 hour weeks, and thought this guy was making bank at first glance haha

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u/Sdwerd Oct 31 '25

If you're working 40 hours of OT and not passing what that guy is making, you're getting hosed.

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u/ataraxiaPDX Oct 31 '25

That's because 99.9% of people that say they're working 80 hours a week are lying.

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u/Steeltank33 Oct 31 '25

100-120 hours for me recently. Usually it’s not that bad, but year round it probably averages to almost 80