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How much money did you make this year? ($$$)

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spectacular hissy fit chapel
  12/18/25
710K
azure telephone heaven
  12/18/25
lawyer?
spectacular hissy fit chapel
  12/18/25
yea
azure telephone heaven
  12/18/25
Biglaw?
spectacular hissy fit chapel
  12/18/25
Me: 842k Wife: 267K Including last year's bonus
mind-boggling turdskin field
  12/18/25
Lawyers?
big know-it-all love of her life
  12/18/25
My wife is in-house and I lie on the internet
mind-boggling turdskin field
  12/18/25
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insanely creepy stag film keepsake machete
  12/18/25
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Nighttime Site
  12/19/25
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duck-like topaz stage boiling water
  12/19/25
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Sapphire kitty cat
  12/19/25
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disgusting kitty
  12/20/25
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outnumbered orchid incel step-uncle's house
  12/21/25
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comical hyperventilating milk
  12/21/25
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Racy Associate
  12/21/25
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Bateful primrose indian lodge
  12/22/25
$350kish, maybe more depending on how collections come in ov...
Domesticated hyperactive mental disorder
  12/18/25
Trash or legal fees?
spectacular hissy fit chapel
  12/18/25
Picking up trash would be much more dignified
Domesticated hyperactive mental disorder
  12/18/25
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Nighttime Site
  12/19/25
$130k in shitlaw
rebellious flushed main people antidepressant drug
  12/18/25
as a solo? associate? paralegal?
Vibrant Corner
  12/18/25
AssociaTTTe
rebellious flushed main people antidepressant drug
  12/18/25
why dont you go solo?
spectacular hissy fit chapel
  12/18/25
I thought shitlawyers made $60K in MFH
dashing church
  12/19/25
Nigger voicemail$
rebellious flushed main people antidepressant drug
  12/19/25
A little over $300k as an in house fag. I'm pathetic and poo...
Greedy weed whacker cruise ship
  12/18/25
When I was a young Inhousemo making $250k, I thought I was t...
Greedy weed whacker cruise ship
  12/18/25
To be fair, I had a 180 billion lifestyle in my late 20s and...
Greedy weed whacker cruise ship
  12/18/25
you should've lateraled to $750k 10-2 100% wfh in house ages...
lascivious goal in life stage
  12/18/25
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azure telephone heaven
  12/18/25
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Painfully honest ladyboy church building
  12/19/25
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Stimulating school cafeteria
  12/21/25
In house is the exit option. There are no exist options from...
Nighttime Site
  12/19/25
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Olive Library Circlehead
  12/19/25
Why is $300k paycheck to paycheck?
180 violet sanctuary
  12/19/25
Over $400k if you add wife. After tax income: ~200k H...
Greedy weed whacker cruise ship
  12/19/25
You are doing better than paycheck to paycheck.
180 violet sanctuary
  12/19/25
you are retarded or lying because 400k with a family is not...
transparent scourge upon the earth
  12/20/25
I had half my income withheld for taxes. I asked what the fu...
180 violet sanctuary
  12/21/25
286k so far. Prob will make another 15k. Wife 86k
Provocative locale
  12/18/25
Does wife's post-tax salary cover the costs of childcare and...
Nighttime Site
  12/19/25
PATRIARCHY!!! Of course it doesn’t.
multi-colored zippy hospital
  12/19/25
Oh. So why does she work?
Nighttime Site
  12/19/25
180k. worst year in total comp since pre covid
Glittery Hideous Abode Dragon
  12/18/25
don't you brag about being rich?
Painfully honest ladyboy church building
  12/19/25
sorry to hear it but props for your candor in a thread full ...
Jade New Version Death Wish
  12/19/25
me: ~$400k wife: ~$325k but i was also laid off
Hateful useless trailer park
  12/18/25
if u want chandler to slap u with his dick just say so
lascivious goal in life stage
  12/18/25
Very gauche to discuss. Any white people left on here?
Exhilarant blathering property persian
  12/18/25
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arousing nubile national dysfunction
  12/18/25
$790K. Wife made about $15K.
180 violet sanctuary
  12/18/25
Doing what, and why?
spectacular hissy fit chapel
  12/18/25
I am atty.
180 violet sanctuary
  12/18/25
I know that, I meant your wife
spectacular hissy fit chapel
  12/18/25
He's an attorney. What's so complicated?
Greedy weed whacker cruise ship
  12/18/25
I understand that he's an attorney
supple friendly grandma
  12/19/25
I understand that he's an attorney
supple friendly grandma
  12/19/25
I understand that he's an attorney
vigorous unholy national security agency ceo
  12/21/25
He's an attorney. What's so complicated?
very tactful state
  12/23/25
I understand that he's an attorney
supple friendly grandma
  12/23/25
Over 50k. Plus I got a $150 honorarium for a talk earlier th...
Godawful station french chef
  12/18/25
I'd love to get an honorarium one day. Very prestigious.
Nighttime Site
  12/19/25
yup, I'd love to get an honorarium one day. Very prestigious...
vigorous unholy national security agency ceo
  12/21/25
You joke, but I'm unironically proud of my meagre token of p...
Godawful station french chef
  12/21/25
I felt the same when I won a $100 poetry prize. In college. ...
180 violet sanctuary
  12/22/25
Lashing out because the board writ large is mocking you for ...
Godawful station french chef
  12/22/25
? Largely? It’s five unmarried childless losers pissed...
180 violet sanctuary
  12/22/25
I was making fun of honaria. Whatever happened to him?
vigorous unholy national security agency ceo
  12/22/25
lol I make more money than lex tp
outnumbered orchid incel step-uncle's house
  12/21/25
Monkey driving a golf cart makes more money than that guy
180 violet sanctuary
  12/21/25
I feel safe in this subthread
underhanded temple
  12/22/25
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underhanded temple
  12/22/25
lex how’s your dating life? jw
underhanded temple
  12/22/25
I only respond to such queries in old fashioned SUMMON: thre...
Godawful station french chef
  12/22/25
why are u dorks including ur wives' earnings
lascivious goal in life stage
  12/18/25
Same reason why they included what their wives harvested in ...
arousing nubile national dysfunction
  12/18/25
i don't even know whether my wife has a job
lascivious goal in life stage
  12/18/25
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Sapphire kitty cat
  12/19/25
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Nighttime Site
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underhanded temple
  12/22/25
not enough.
Painfully honest ladyboy church building
  12/18/25
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fragrant roast beef nibblets
  12/20/25
little under $6M
razzmatazz black address old irish cottage
  12/18/25
MFCR. State occupation, thank.
Greedy weed whacker cruise ship
  12/18/25
271K TOPS
mind-boggling turdskin field
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garnet crackhouse personal credit line
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Glittery Hideous Abode Dragon
  12/18/25
sorry ur mad
razzmatazz black address old irish cottage
  12/19/25
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beady-eyed frozen office
  12/20/25
Six figures, champ.
Massive genital piercing
  12/18/25
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insanely creepy stag film keepsake machete
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Painfully honest ladyboy church building
  12/18/25
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irradiated boltzmann jewess
  12/20/25
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Racy Associate
  12/21/25
-$184K
effete rusted legend plaza
  12/18/25
I fail to see how this is relevant.
fantasy-prone spot generalized bond
  12/18/25
Pre tax or post tax? Including expected tax credits, debits,...
Talented sable nursing home mad cow disease
  12/18/25
holy fuck how jewish are you
duck-like topaz stage boiling water
  12/19/25
low-200s
Sooty native ape
  12/18/25
0
bespoke pistol parlour
  12/18/25
like 2 million
appetizing silver cuckold
  12/18/25
$360k in tech
Mewling Kitchen
  12/19/25
Less than I want but way more than I deserve
ivory thriller point
  12/19/25
I value my wife’s admiration over tax advantages. The...
puce stain
  12/19/25
Shrew'd
ivory thriller point
  12/19/25
lol @ this flame. Women only care about what you can buy th...
Bateful primrose indian lodge
  12/19/25
She sees the tax return but not the brokerage statement. Sh...
puce stain
  12/19/25
(guy playing the long game) at the same time, this is the s...
Jade New Version Death Wish
  12/19/25
thank you
puce stain
  12/19/25
I mean, don't rule anything out, there's something to be sai...
Electric hot range
  12/19/25
Who wants to pay off my house
pink reading party
  12/19/25
negative money (lived off debt)
charismatic cyan coldplay fan
  12/19/25
~250, not bad but half as much as last year. :(
soul-stirring area
  12/19/25
what happened
duck-like topaz stage boiling water
  12/19/25
i made a bunch of money off of JMIA last year. ironically if...
soul-stirring area
  12/19/25
if there's one thing I've learned as a solo it's that annual...
Sapphire kitty cat
  12/19/25
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spectacular hissy fit chapel
  12/19/25
Around 1.7 which is what I made last year. I'm starting to t...
umber macaca gas station
  12/19/25
$600k as solo lolyer.
Olive Library Circlehead
  12/19/25
Closer to a tenth of that for me. Nasty health problem decim...
chest-beating anal space preventive strike
  12/20/25
~$900k
multi-colored zippy hospital
  12/19/25
Paying tax on about $600K, but zero earned income.
mauve theater stage candlestick maker
  12/19/25
Wow.
fragrant roast beef nibblets
  12/19/25
Let me know what I can do to earn about $20k from you.
Painfully honest ladyboy church building
  12/19/25
How many blowjobs can I get for that?
mauve theater stage candlestick maker
  12/19/25
well my regular price is $20 per nut but since you're buying...
Painfully honest ladyboy church building
  12/19/25
That 1/3 sounds disappointing.
mauve theater stage candlestick maker
  12/19/25
lol
fishy ticket booth quadroon
  12/19/25
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Painfully honest ladyboy church building
  12/22/25
you guys are a bunch of studs, i'm in the 20th decile or so ...
Jade New Version Death Wish
  12/19/25
the only threads on XO more full of shit than income threads...
Metal Khaki Den Wagecucks
  12/19/25
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Jade New Version Death Wish
  12/19/25
I can do 12 full-extension, 13 with a bit of english on the ...
very tactful state
  12/19/25
Lol rfk did 20pullups on video.
Boyish opaque menage alpha
  12/19/25
if i used the same form and ROM as him i could crank off lik...
Adventurous Lemon Rigor Business Firm
  12/19/25
Try actually doing pull-ups. You will not get much more by s...
Boyish opaque menage alpha
  12/20/25
LOL boor, his form was trash. controlled full ROM pullups fr...
Metal Khaki Den Wagecucks
  12/21/25
You sound poor
Bateful primrose indian lodge
  12/19/25
but self-selection...
irradiated boltzmann jewess
  12/20/25
I dunno, like 10-15x the American average and also not nearl...
green double fault
  12/19/25
XO to young poasters, " Do NOT go to law school!" ...
Walnut Startling Location
  12/19/25
Survivor bias. The people from my class who didn’t sur...
green double fault
  12/19/25
Soo cr. Maybe half of the dudes I know about are still lawye...
ivory thriller point
  12/20/25
It would be fascinating to see some actual ROI data on law s...
green double fault
  12/20/25
back in the day standard advice was only go to ls if you're ...
azure telephone heaven
  12/20/25
Only once ITE hit. Before that, Gen Xers sleepwalked off a c...
underhanded temple
  12/20/25
TITCR. The Bill Henderson “Bi-modal distribution of st...
green double fault
  12/20/25
this is correct. I started with 26 people in my summer c...
razzmatazz black address old irish cottage
  12/20/25
amazing how XO gets the top 1% of lawyers to poast here
Walnut Startling Location
  12/20/25
The personality that really likes it here actually thrives i...
fragrant roast beef nibblets
  12/20/25
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spectacular hissy fit chapel
  12/20/25
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azure telephone heaven
  12/20/25
$160k. The same I made as a first year. Good thing there&r...
disgusting kitty
  12/19/25
I paid just under that in taxes this year
Mewling Kitchen
  12/20/25
somewhere around $220k pre-bonus. bonus will likely be shit ...
Maroon hairless queen of the night pit
  12/20/25
this number includes all income, not just wagecucking.
Maroon hairless queen of the night pit
  12/20/25
actually it might be closer to $240k. idfk i don't keep clos...
Maroon hairless queen of the night pit
  12/20/25
A little over a mil. “Worked” ~10 hours a week. ...
Self-absorbed meetinghouse
  12/20/25
How do you get your taxable income lower?
hairraiser factory reset button
  12/20/25
Bought a car (100% depreciation) Pay myself rent -- I own ...
Self-absorbed meetinghouse
  12/20/25
Creative but nothing fraud tp
spectacular hissy fit chapel
  12/20/25
Tell more about paralegal. How does she bring in cases?
180 violet sanctuary
  12/21/25
Just by being likeable and talking to people and knowing wha...
Self-absorbed meetinghouse
  12/21/25
...
180 violet sanctuary
  12/21/25
About 1mil , I wagecucked a lot and this is my ceiling. Anyo...
Boyish opaque menage alpha
  12/20/25
425k in a litigation boutique as a non-equity “partner...
transparent scourge upon the earth
  12/20/25
still waiting for bonus which will be 30% of my comp
Costumed contagious public bath pisswyrm
  12/21/25
it's likely going to be around $580k this year. i started th...
vigorous unholy national security agency ceo
  12/21/25
That’s good. Do you have to leave a bunch of money in?...
180 violet sanctuary
  12/21/25
at the prior firm, i bought in like $20k worth of shares. th...
vigorous unholy national security agency ceo
  12/21/25
We just work hard all year then deduct costs from fees earne...
180 violet sanctuary
  12/22/25
Looks like I peaked in 2023 at $500k and I've been earning l...
spectacular hissy fit chapel
  12/21/25
it's surprising to me bc i used to not give a fuck about the...
vigorous unholy national security agency ceo
  12/21/25
are you hiring? can you mentor me? i really enjoyed ur saltw...
spectacular hissy fit chapel
  12/21/25
if i could, i would man. are you open to learning traditiona...
vigorous unholy national security agency ceo
  12/21/25
i dont think i wanna learn that. do you think i can bottom f...
spectacular hissy fit chapel
  12/21/25
yes but i am not sure what i can pay u. can i finish in ur a...
vigorous unholy national security agency ceo
  12/21/25
are you still pozzed?
spectacular hissy fit chapel
  12/21/25
undetectable brother
vigorous unholy national security agency ceo
  12/21/25
i guess you can finish in my ass. $50 if u can host
spectacular hissy fit chapel
  12/21/25
wow this is hot, let's take this off boart
vigorous unholy national security agency ceo
  12/21/25
$595k (which is like $390k after taxes)
Trip tan affirmative action athletic conference
  12/21/25
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comical hyperventilating milk
  12/21/25
Should be $1.036m with rents and assuming the lab business c...
saffron box office
  12/21/25
600-800k in tech depending on stock price, haven’t rea...
wonderful ratface cuck
  12/21/25
180 last note
Godawful station french chef
  12/22/25
About 1.3 mil. Shitlaw boss, real estate investing and othe...
hairraiser factory reset button
  12/21/25
that is 180, very impressive. very unlikely everything wi...
vigorous unholy national security agency ceo
  12/21/25
I think he has posted about her before. He’s doing a ...
180 violet sanctuary
  12/21/25
i can't advocate for doing that, but that's just me. nobody ...
vigorous unholy national security agency ceo
  12/21/25
just do discreet affairs bro
Vibrant Corner
  12/21/25
Lol at all the poasters counting unrealized investment gains...
hairraiser factory reset button
  12/24/25
I wouldn’t include it in my headline number but I do t...
sepia dilemma
  12/26/25
CSLG free thread. Odd case.
passionate pearly becky
  12/22/25
Great q. Most in-housemos have no idea since most won't kno...
Racy Associate
  12/22/25
count any bonus you received in calendar 2025
azure telephone heaven
  12/23/25
I just started new job. Finished last shift of nights at 5am...
Boyish opaque menage alpha
  12/22/25
About $310k in W2/1099, $50k in rental profit, and I think $...
sepia dilemma
  12/22/25
Up $415,290. W2 wages are about 65% of that.
fragrant roast beef nibblets
  12/22/25
whats the other 35%
azure telephone heaven
  12/23/25
cap gains
very tactful state
  12/25/25
are we counting cap gains in what we made this year? id need...
azure telephone heaven
  12/25/25
I'm up like $440k now on the year.
fragrant roast beef nibblets
  12/25/25
~$500k
Costumed contagious public bath pisswyrm
  12/25/25


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Date: December 18th, 2025 3:47 PM
Author: spectacular hissy fit chapel



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Date: December 18th, 2025 3:48 PM
Author: azure telephone heaven

710K

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Date: December 18th, 2025 3:50 PM
Author: spectacular hissy fit chapel

lawyer?

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Date: December 18th, 2025 3:54 PM
Author: azure telephone heaven

yea

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Date: December 18th, 2025 3:55 PM
Author: spectacular hissy fit chapel

Biglaw?

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Date: December 18th, 2025 3:51 PM
Author: mind-boggling turdskin field

Me: 842k

Wife: 267K

Including last year's bonus

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Date: December 18th, 2025 6:05 PM
Author: big know-it-all love of her life

Lawyers?

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Date: December 18th, 2025 6:07 PM
Author: mind-boggling turdskin field

My wife is in-house and I lie on the internet

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Date: December 18th, 2025 6:07 PM
Author: insanely creepy stag film keepsake machete



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Date: December 19th, 2025 10:23 AM
Author: Nighttime Site



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Date: December 19th, 2025 11:16 AM
Author: duck-like topaz stage boiling water



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Date: December 19th, 2025 11:19 AM
Author: Sapphire kitty cat



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Date: December 20th, 2025 9:01 AM
Author: disgusting kitty



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Date: December 21st, 2025 5:33 PM
Author: outnumbered orchid incel step-uncle's house



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Date: December 21st, 2025 5:53 PM
Author: comical hyperventilating milk



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Date: December 21st, 2025 6:28 PM
Author: Racy Associate



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Date: December 22nd, 2025 5:50 PM
Author: Bateful primrose indian lodge



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Date: December 18th, 2025 3:55 PM
Author: Domesticated hyperactive mental disorder

$350kish, maybe more depending on how collections come in over the next two weeks

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Date: December 18th, 2025 3:55 PM
Author: spectacular hissy fit chapel

Trash or legal fees?

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Date: December 18th, 2025 4:58 PM
Author: Domesticated hyperactive mental disorder

Picking up trash would be much more dignified

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Date: December 19th, 2025 10:23 AM
Author: Nighttime Site



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Date: December 18th, 2025 3:56 PM
Author: rebellious flushed main people antidepressant drug

$130k in shitlaw

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Date: December 18th, 2025 3:57 PM
Author: Vibrant Corner

as a solo? associate? paralegal?

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Date: December 18th, 2025 4:35 PM
Author: rebellious flushed main people antidepressant drug

AssociaTTTe

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Date: December 18th, 2025 4:35 PM
Author: spectacular hissy fit chapel

why dont you go solo?

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Date: December 19th, 2025 12:20 PM
Author: dashing church

I thought shitlawyers made $60K in MFH

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Date: December 19th, 2025 8:41 PM
Author: rebellious flushed main people antidepressant drug

Nigger voicemail$

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Date: December 18th, 2025 4:00 PM
Author: Greedy weed whacker cruise ship

A little over $300k as an in house fag. I'm pathetic and poor.

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Date: December 18th, 2025 5:07 PM
Author: Greedy weed whacker cruise ship

When I was a young Inhousemo making $250k, I thought I was the shit. Xoxo told me that it was the only CR goal for a lawyer. And I had no kids.

Now I'm nearing 40 and practically live paycheck to paycheck. Exit ops are SLIM.

Turns out I was a retard for going in house.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5811768&forum_id=2/#49520231)



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Date: December 18th, 2025 5:08 PM
Author: Greedy weed whacker cruise ship

To be fair, I had a 180 billion lifestyle in my late 20s and early 30s.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5811768&forum_id=2/#49520240)



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Date: December 18th, 2025 5:26 PM
Author: lascivious goal in life stage

you should've lateraled to $750k 10-2 100% wfh in house ages ago, moron

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5811768&forum_id=2/#49520352)



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Date: December 18th, 2025 5:30 PM
Author: azure telephone heaven



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5811768&forum_id=2/#49520383)



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Date: December 19th, 2025 11:56 AM
Author: Painfully honest ladyboy church building



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5811768&forum_id=2/#49522387)



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Date: December 21st, 2025 5:32 PM
Author: Stimulating school cafeteria



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5811768&forum_id=2/#49528363)



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Date: December 19th, 2025 11:22 AM
Author: Nighttime Site

In house is the exit option. There are no exist options from the exit option. What do you have in mind?

This is like seeing the ship you're on in the middle of the ocean catch fire, getting into a lifeboat and rowing away, and then saying you want an exit option from the lifeboat. You're lucky to be on that lifeboat.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5811768&forum_id=2/#49522250)



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Date: December 19th, 2025 11:55 AM
Author: Olive Library Circlehead



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5811768&forum_id=2/#49522385)



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Date: December 19th, 2025 12:32 PM
Author: 180 violet sanctuary

Why is $300k paycheck to paycheck?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5811768&forum_id=2/#49522508)



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Date: December 19th, 2025 3:05 PM
Author: Greedy weed whacker cruise ship

Over $400k if you add wife.

After tax income: ~200k

Housing (vhcol area + 3 kids): ~100k

Child care: ~$50k

Add in some money to retirement and kids college, and not much left for day to day.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5811768&forum_id=2/#49522995)



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Date: December 19th, 2025 5:54 PM
Author: 180 violet sanctuary

You are doing better than paycheck to paycheck.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5811768&forum_id=2/#49523480)



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Date: December 20th, 2025 4:26 PM
Author: transparent scourge upon the earth

you are retarded or lying because 400k with a family is not 200k after income taxes.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5811768&forum_id=2/#49525980)



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Date: December 21st, 2025 5:25 PM
Author: 180 violet sanctuary

I had half my income withheld for taxes. I asked what the fuck and apparently we are prepaying for next quarter.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5811768&forum_id=2/#49528347)



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Date: December 18th, 2025 4:01 PM
Author: Provocative locale

286k so far. Prob will make another 15k. Wife 86k

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5811768&forum_id=2/#49519951)



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Date: December 19th, 2025 11:23 AM
Author: Nighttime Site

Does wife's post-tax salary cover the costs of childcare and other work-related expenses (work clothes, work commute, work bag, work Starbucks, work $19 lunch salad...)?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5811768&forum_id=2/#49522256)



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Date: December 19th, 2025 11:41 AM
Author: multi-colored zippy hospital

PATRIARCHY!!!

Of course it doesn’t.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5811768&forum_id=2/#49522337)



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Date: December 19th, 2025 11:45 AM
Author: Nighttime Site

Oh. So why does she work?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5811768&forum_id=2/#49522351)



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Date: December 18th, 2025 4:04 PM
Author: Glittery Hideous Abode Dragon

180k. worst year in total comp since pre covid

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5811768&forum_id=2/#49519965)



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Date: December 19th, 2025 11:57 AM
Author: Painfully honest ladyboy church building

don't you brag about being rich?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5811768&forum_id=2/#49522392)



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Date: December 19th, 2025 2:06 PM
Author: Jade New Version Death Wish

sorry to hear it but props for your candor in a thread full of guys bullshitting

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5811768&forum_id=2/#49522784)



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Date: December 18th, 2025 4:10 PM
Author: Hateful useless trailer park

me: ~$400k wife: ~$325k

but i was also laid off



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5811768&forum_id=2/#49519995)



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Date: December 18th, 2025 4:15 PM
Author: lascivious goal in life stage

if u want chandler to slap u with his dick just say so

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5811768&forum_id=2/#49520019)



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Date: December 18th, 2025 4:36 PM
Author: Exhilarant blathering property persian

Very gauche to discuss. Any white people left on here?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5811768&forum_id=2/#49520082)



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Date: December 18th, 2025 5:04 PM
Author: arousing nubile national dysfunction



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5811768&forum_id=2/#49520207)



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Date: December 18th, 2025 4:45 PM
Author: 180 violet sanctuary

$790K. Wife made about $15K.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5811768&forum_id=2/#49520114)



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Date: December 18th, 2025 4:55 PM
Author: spectacular hissy fit chapel

Doing what, and why?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5811768&forum_id=2/#49520142)



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Date: December 18th, 2025 4:58 PM
Author: 180 violet sanctuary

I am atty.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5811768&forum_id=2/#49520156)



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Date: December 18th, 2025 4:59 PM
Author: spectacular hissy fit chapel

I know that, I meant your wife

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5811768&forum_id=2/#49520161)



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Date: December 18th, 2025 5:04 PM
Author: Greedy weed whacker cruise ship

He's an attorney. What's so complicated?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5811768&forum_id=2/#49520202)



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Date: December 19th, 2025 1:40 PM
Author: supple friendly grandma

I understand that he's an attorney

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5811768&forum_id=2/#49522699)



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Date: December 19th, 2025 1:43 PM
Author: supple friendly grandma

I understand that he's an attorney

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5811768&forum_id=2/#49522705)



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Date: December 21st, 2025 10:30 AM
Author: vigorous unholy national security agency ceo

I understand that he's an attorney

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5811768&forum_id=2/#49527326)



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Date: December 23rd, 2025 12:33 AM
Author: very tactful state

He's an attorney. What's so complicated?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5811768&forum_id=2/#49532966)



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Date: December 23rd, 2025 2:25 PM
Author: supple friendly grandma

I understand that he's an attorney

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5811768&forum_id=2/#49534294)



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Date: December 18th, 2025 5:06 PM
Author: Godawful station french chef

Over 50k. Plus I got a $150 honorarium for a talk earlier this month. I'm fucking rich.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5811768&forum_id=2/#49520223)



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Date: December 19th, 2025 11:24 AM
Author: Nighttime Site

I'd love to get an honorarium one day. Very prestigious.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5811768&forum_id=2/#49522258)



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Date: December 21st, 2025 10:30 AM
Author: vigorous unholy national security agency ceo

yup, I'd love to get an honorarium one day. Very prestigious.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5811768&forum_id=2/#49527328)



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Date: December 21st, 2025 12:49 PM
Author: Godawful station french chef

You joke, but I'm unironically proud of my meagre token of prefthige. Intangible honours are more valuable than silver or gold.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5811768&forum_id=2/#49527624)



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Date: December 22nd, 2025 6:07 PM
Author: 180 violet sanctuary

I felt the same when I won a $100 poetry prize. In college. In 1993.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5811768&forum_id=2/#49531954)



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Date: December 22nd, 2025 6:10 PM
Author: Godawful station french chef

Lashing out because the board writ large is mocking you for bragging about a discount walmart watch?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5811768&forum_id=2/#49531959)



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Date: December 22nd, 2025 6:35 PM
Author: 180 violet sanctuary

? Largely? It’s five unmarried childless losers pissed I’m buying a Rolex. One would hope there are more posters than that.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5811768&forum_id=2/#49531998)



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Date: December 22nd, 2025 11:01 PM
Author: vigorous unholy national security agency ceo

I was making fun of honaria. Whatever happened to him?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5811768&forum_id=2/#49532872)



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Date: December 21st, 2025 5:34 PM
Author: outnumbered orchid incel step-uncle's house

lol I make more money than lex tp

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5811768&forum_id=2/#49528370)



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Date: December 21st, 2025 5:47 PM
Author: 180 violet sanctuary

Monkey driving a golf cart makes more money than that guy

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5811768&forum_id=2/#49528421)



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Date: December 22nd, 2025 3:46 PM
Author: underhanded temple

I feel safe in this subthread

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5811768&forum_id=2/#49531586)



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Date: December 22nd, 2025 3:46 PM
Author: underhanded temple



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5811768&forum_id=2/#49531589)



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Date: December 22nd, 2025 3:46 PM
Author: underhanded temple

lex how’s your dating life? jw

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5811768&forum_id=2/#49531592)



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Date: December 22nd, 2025 5:09 PM
Author: Godawful station french chef

I only respond to such queries in old fashioned SUMMON: threads.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5811768&forum_id=2/#49531824)



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Date: December 18th, 2025 5:10 PM
Author: lascivious goal in life stage

why are u dorks including ur wives' earnings

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5811768&forum_id=2/#49520253)



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Date: December 18th, 2025 5:14 PM
Author: arousing nubile national dysfunction

Same reason why they included what their wives harvested in their annual rice harvest numbers for the past 3000 years

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5811768&forum_id=2/#49520283)



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Date: December 18th, 2025 5:27 PM
Author: lascivious goal in life stage

i don't even know whether my wife has a job

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5811768&forum_id=2/#49520363)



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Date: December 19th, 2025 11:19 AM
Author: Sapphire kitty cat



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5811768&forum_id=2/#49522246)



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Date: December 19th, 2025 11:24 AM
Author: Nighttime Site



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5811768&forum_id=2/#49522259)



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Date: December 22nd, 2025 3:47 PM
Author: underhanded temple



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5811768&forum_id=2/#49531594)



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Date: December 18th, 2025 5:10 PM
Author: Painfully honest ladyboy church building

not enough.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5811768&forum_id=2/#49520256)



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Date: December 20th, 2025 7:07 AM
Author: fragrant roast beef nibblets



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5811768&forum_id=2/#49524556)



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Date: December 18th, 2025 5:15 PM
Author: razzmatazz black address old irish cottage

little under $6M

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5811768&forum_id=2/#49520288)



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Date: December 18th, 2025 5:18 PM
Author: Greedy weed whacker cruise ship

MFCR. State occupation, thank.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5811768&forum_id=2/#49520304)



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Date: December 18th, 2025 5:30 PM
Author: mind-boggling turdskin field

271K TOPS

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5811768&forum_id=2/#49520377)



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Date: December 18th, 2025 6:37 PM
Author: garnet crackhouse personal credit line



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5811768&forum_id=2/#49520585)



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Date: December 18th, 2025 7:17 PM
Author: Glittery Hideous Abode Dragon



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5811768&forum_id=2/#49520702)



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Date: December 19th, 2025 1:55 PM
Author: razzmatazz black address old irish cottage

sorry ur mad

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5811768&forum_id=2/#49522735)



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Date: December 20th, 2025 3:00 PM
Author: beady-eyed frozen office



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5811768&forum_id=2/#49525741)



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Date: December 18th, 2025 5:22 PM
Author: Massive genital piercing

Six figures, champ.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5811768&forum_id=2/#49520329)



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Date: December 18th, 2025 6:07 PM
Author: insanely creepy stag film keepsake machete



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5811768&forum_id=2/#49520502)



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Date: December 18th, 2025 6:39 PM
Author: Painfully honest ladyboy church building



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5811768&forum_id=2/#49520594)



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Date: December 20th, 2025 9:29 AM
Author: irradiated boltzmann jewess



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5811768&forum_id=2/#49524786)



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Date: December 21st, 2025 6:27 PM
Author: Racy Associate



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5811768&forum_id=2/#49528564)



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Date: December 18th, 2025 5:29 PM
Author: effete rusted legend plaza

-$184K

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5811768&forum_id=2/#49520375)



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Date: December 18th, 2025 6:07 PM
Author: fantasy-prone spot generalized bond

I fail to see how this is relevant.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5811768&forum_id=2/#49520501)



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Date: December 18th, 2025 6:08 PM
Author: Talented sable nursing home mad cow disease

Pre tax or post tax? Including expected tax credits, debits, write ups, write downs, etc.? Including retirement account contributions, distributions, roll overs? Including K1 returns of capital? Including present value of future earnings? Including appreciation on value of assets? Net of amortization and depreciation on those assets? Very unclear op

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5811768&forum_id=2/#49520506)



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Date: December 19th, 2025 11:18 AM
Author: duck-like topaz stage boiling water

holy fuck how jewish are you

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5811768&forum_id=2/#49522240)



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Date: December 18th, 2025 6:24 PM
Author: Sooty native ape

low-200s

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5811768&forum_id=2/#49520548)



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Date: December 18th, 2025 6:27 PM
Author: bespoke pistol parlour

0

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5811768&forum_id=2/#49520555)



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Date: December 18th, 2025 8:07 PM
Author: appetizing silver cuckold

like 2 million

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5811768&forum_id=2/#49520858)



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Date: December 19th, 2025 10:38 AM
Author: Mewling Kitchen

$360k in tech

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5811768&forum_id=2/#49522161)



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Date: December 19th, 2025 10:50 AM
Author: ivory thriller point

Less than I want but way more than I deserve

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5811768&forum_id=2/#49522182)



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Date: December 19th, 2025 11:00 AM
Author: puce stain

I value my wife’s admiration over tax advantages. Therefore, I sold off my winners but held my losers so that our tax bill in April shows bigly long-term capital gains for 2025 when in reality I barely beat the index.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5811768&forum_id=2/#49522192)



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Date: December 19th, 2025 11:03 AM
Author: ivory thriller point

Shrew'd

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5811768&forum_id=2/#49522198)



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Date: December 19th, 2025 11:03 AM
Author: Bateful primrose indian lodge

lol @ this flame. Women only care about what you can buy them and the lifestyle you can provide (ideally one where they don't think about money at all). Any woman autistic enough to care about big number on long term gains is going to be autistic enough to care about overall performance, not just a big number on a line. The woman you're describing does not exist.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5811768&forum_id=2/#49522202)



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Date: December 19th, 2025 1:36 PM
Author: puce stain

She sees the tax return but not the brokerage statement. She’ll see the big reported income but not the unrealized paper losses. She is indeed high T and autistic so she does care about the number.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5811768&forum_id=2/#49522694)



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Date: December 19th, 2025 2:08 PM
Author: Jade New Version Death Wish

(guy playing the long game)

at the same time, this is the sort of thinking that leads guys to do big ponzi schemes and then when they get found out they freak out and killself - don't do that

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5811768&forum_id=2/#49522791)



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Date: December 19th, 2025 2:59 PM
Author: puce stain

thank you

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5811768&forum_id=2/#49522969)



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Date: December 19th, 2025 10:43 PM
Author: Electric hot range

I mean, don't rule anything out, there's something to be said for doing high roller ponzi until found out and then whatever happens happens

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5811768&forum_id=2/#49524077)



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Date: December 19th, 2025 11:03 AM
Author: pink reading party

Who wants to pay off my house

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5811768&forum_id=2/#49522200)



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Date: December 19th, 2025 11:11 AM
Author: charismatic cyan coldplay fan

negative money (lived off debt)

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5811768&forum_id=2/#49522220)



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Date: December 19th, 2025 11:19 AM
Author: soul-stirring area

~250, not bad but half as much as last year. :(

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5811768&forum_id=2/#49522245)



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Date: December 19th, 2025 11:22 AM
Author: duck-like topaz stage boiling water

what happened

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5811768&forum_id=2/#49522255)



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Date: December 19th, 2025 11:37 AM
Author: soul-stirring area

i made a bunch of money off of JMIA last year. ironically if i had just held i'd be up even more today, but there's fucking way i would've survived that draw down.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5811768&forum_id=2/#49522320)



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Date: December 19th, 2025 11:21 AM
Author: Sapphire kitty cat

if there's one thing I've learned as a solo it's that annual earnings are flame.

my income fluctuated probably 400% from 2024 to 2025 but nothing really changed. money comes in at random without any reference to what "year" it is.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5811768&forum_id=2/#49522248)



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Date: December 19th, 2025 11:28 AM
Author: spectacular hissy fit chapel



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5811768&forum_id=2/#49522284)



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Date: December 19th, 2025 11:29 AM
Author: umber macaca gas station

Around 1.7 which is what I made last year. I'm starting to think I'll never cross into the 2 million range

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5811768&forum_id=2/#49522287)



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Date: December 19th, 2025 11:40 AM
Author: Olive Library Circlehead

$600k as solo lolyer.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5811768&forum_id=2/#49522333)



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Date: December 20th, 2025 2:55 PM
Author: chest-beating anal space preventive strike

Closer to a tenth of that for me. Nasty health problem decimated my year.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5811768&forum_id=2/#49525725)



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Date: December 19th, 2025 11:44 AM
Author: multi-colored zippy hospital

~$900k

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5811768&forum_id=2/#49522345)



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Date: December 19th, 2025 2:09 PM
Author: mauve theater stage candlestick maker

Paying tax on about $600K, but zero earned income.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5811768&forum_id=2/#49522793)



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Date: December 19th, 2025 2:17 PM
Author: fragrant roast beef nibblets

Wow.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5811768&forum_id=2/#49522813)



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Date: December 19th, 2025 3:35 PM
Author: Painfully honest ladyboy church building

Let me know what I can do to earn about $20k from you.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5811768&forum_id=2/#49523151)



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Date: December 19th, 2025 3:41 PM
Author: mauve theater stage candlestick maker

How many blowjobs can I get for that?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5811768&forum_id=2/#49523174)



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Date: December 19th, 2025 4:20 PM
Author: Painfully honest ladyboy church building

well my regular price is $20 per nut but since you're buying in bulk, i can go to $15. So, 1,333.33 blowjobs.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5811768&forum_id=2/#49523284)



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Date: December 19th, 2025 4:23 PM
Author: mauve theater stage candlestick maker

That 1/3 sounds disappointing.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5811768&forum_id=2/#49523287)



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Date: December 19th, 2025 8:47 PM
Author: fishy ticket booth quadroon

lol

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5811768&forum_id=2/#49523843)



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Date: December 22nd, 2025 4:06 PM
Author: Painfully honest ladyboy church building



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5811768&forum_id=2/#49531645)



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Date: December 19th, 2025 2:18 PM
Author: Jade New Version Death Wish

you guys are a bunch of studs, i'm in the 20th decile or so itt and honestly am pretty happy about it given my in-house lifestyle

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5811768&forum_id=2/#49522815)



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Date: December 19th, 2025 2:58 PM
Author: Metal Khaki Den Wagecucks

the only threads on XO more full of shit than income threads are max pullups in a single set threads.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5811768&forum_id=2/#49522960)



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Date: December 19th, 2025 3:27 PM
Author: Jade New Version Death Wish



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5811768&forum_id=2/#49523114)



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Date: December 19th, 2025 4:23 PM
Author: very tactful state

I can do 12 full-extension, 13 with a bit of english on the last one, at 235 bodyweight not flame

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5811768&forum_id=2/#49523288)



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Date: December 19th, 2025 5:16 PM
Author: Boyish opaque menage alpha

Lol rfk did 20pullups on video.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5811768&forum_id=2/#49523407)



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Date: December 19th, 2025 8:24 PM
Author: Adventurous Lemon Rigor Business Firm

if i used the same form and ROM as him i could crank off like 30+

maybe once a month i will see someone at the gym doing legit full ROM dead-hang pull-ups. the rest are kipping crossfit turds just bouncing tension off their brachials and could probably not squeeze out eight clean reps.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5811768&forum_id=2/#49523780)



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Date: December 20th, 2025 2:11 PM
Author: Boyish opaque menage alpha

Try actually doing pull-ups. You will not get much more by swinging unless you also don't go more than 1/2 up.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5811768&forum_id=2/#49525630)



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Date: December 21st, 2025 8:47 PM
Author: Metal Khaki Den Wagecucks

LOL boor, his form was trash. controlled full ROM pullups from a true dead hang (like required by most military testing) are substantially more difficult than what RFK and the road rules guy were doing. MTV was marginally better for form but still bad.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5811768&forum_id=2/#49529038)



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Date: December 19th, 2025 6:06 PM
Author: Bateful primrose indian lodge

You sound poor

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5811768&forum_id=2/#49523499)



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Date: December 20th, 2025 9:29 AM
Author: irradiated boltzmann jewess

but self-selection...

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5811768&forum_id=2/#49524790)



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Date: December 19th, 2025 8:34 PM
Author: green double fault

I dunno, like 10-15x the American average and also not nearly enough. Being working class rich fucking sucks.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5811768&forum_id=2/#49523808)



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Date: December 19th, 2025 8:56 PM
Author: Walnut Startling Location

XO to young poasters, " Do NOT go to law school!"

*rubs hands togther*

"But I made 750k last year!!!!!"

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5811768&forum_id=2/#49523866)



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Date: December 19th, 2025 9:08 PM
Author: green double fault

Survivor bias. The people from my class who didn’t survive ITE probably have a very different perspective than I do.

And how many times when your friends kid asks you about going to law school do they sit down and tell you about their 158 LSAT / 3.4 GPA and grand dreams of going to Drexel and getting in at Dechert or Morgan Lewis. Maybe Drinker if they’ve got some sense.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5811768&forum_id=2/#49523884)



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Date: December 20th, 2025 8:23 AM
Author: ivory thriller point

Soo cr. Maybe half of the dudes I know about are still lawyers. Way less than half of the women.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5811768&forum_id=2/#49524660)



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Date: December 20th, 2025 11:14 AM
Author: green double fault

It would be fascinating to see some actual ROI data on law school classes over time. I got a good return on mine, but yea all of the people who drop out of/evolve away from the profession would almost certainly have been better off not going $300k into debt (above and beyond undergrad) in their early 20s.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5811768&forum_id=2/#49525097)



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Date: December 20th, 2025 2:45 PM
Author: azure telephone heaven

back in the day standard advice was only go to ls if you're going to a t14

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5811768&forum_id=2/#49525701)



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Date: December 20th, 2025 3:00 PM
Author: underhanded temple

Only once ITE hit. Before that, Gen Xers sleepwalked off a cliff.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5811768&forum_id=2/#49525737)



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Date: December 20th, 2025 5:59 PM
Author: green double fault

TITCR. The Bill Henderson “Bi-modal distribution of starting lawyer salaries” scholarship was explosive at the time, and for good reason. It only came out in like 2008 and the blog it was on has been lost to time.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5811768&forum_id=2/#49526155)



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Date: December 20th, 2025 9:22 AM
Author: razzmatazz black address old irish cottage

this is correct.

I started with 26 people in my summer class.

Of my summer class only two are partners at law firms - me and another guy I hired back to work for me as a W2 partner.

Two other guys have their own law firms but makes like 300k-500kyr

three others are in-house

All others are somewhere other than law.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5811768&forum_id=2/#49524780)



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Date: December 20th, 2025 10:49 AM
Author: Walnut Startling Location

amazing how XO gets the top 1% of lawyers to poast here

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5811768&forum_id=2/#49525050)



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Date: December 20th, 2025 11:18 AM
Author: fragrant roast beef nibblets

The personality that really likes it here actually thrives in law practice too.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5811768&forum_id=2/#49525106)



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Date: December 20th, 2025 11:27 AM
Author: spectacular hissy fit chapel



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5811768&forum_id=2/#49525129)



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Date: December 20th, 2025 2:45 PM
Author: azure telephone heaven



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5811768&forum_id=2/#49525700)



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Date: December 19th, 2025 9:10 PM
Author: disgusting kitty

$160k. The same I made as a first year. Good thing there’s been no inflation.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5811768&forum_id=2/#49523890)



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Date: December 20th, 2025 2:58 PM
Author: Mewling Kitchen

I paid just under that in taxes this year

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5811768&forum_id=2/#49525732)



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Date: December 20th, 2025 8:29 AM
Author: Maroon hairless queen of the night pit

somewhere around $220k pre-bonus. bonus will likely be shit this year, however.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5811768&forum_id=2/#49524680)



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Date: December 20th, 2025 8:30 AM
Author: Maroon hairless queen of the night pit

this number includes all income, not just wagecucking.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5811768&forum_id=2/#49524683)



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Date: December 20th, 2025 8:32 AM
Author: Maroon hairless queen of the night pit

actually it might be closer to $240k. idfk i don't keep close track of how much i make altogether; i focus on how much i save. won't know the exact number until i do taxes probably.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5811768&forum_id=2/#49524686)



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Date: December 20th, 2025 3:11 PM
Author: Self-absorbed meetinghouse

A little over a mil. “Worked” ~10 hours a week. Pay taxes on much less.

Depositing 400k in fees first week of January too.

Solo PI.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5811768&forum_id=2/#49525770)



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Date: December 20th, 2025 4:22 PM
Author: hairraiser factory reset button

How do you get your taxable income lower?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5811768&forum_id=2/#49525966)



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Date: December 20th, 2025 4:37 PM
Author: Self-absorbed meetinghouse

Bought a car (100% depreciation)

Pay myself rent -- I own office building

Office building depreciation/property taxes

Did a lot of work to the office building. New AC/Furniture. I fully renovated it a couple years ago for like 200k. All adds value to property and gets written off.

like 75k in meals and travel

Gas

Health Insurance

Mortgage interest home/office

I prepay whatever expenses I can for the next year -- car insurance, ad spend, web marketing, etc.

~150k in staff salaries. Paralegal always pays for herself by bringing in cases so I don't really count that. I'm sending a demand on a DUI wreck she brought in in January for $1 mil.

Creative but nothing fraud.



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5811768&forum_id=2/#49526021)



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Date: December 20th, 2025 6:02 PM
Author: spectacular hissy fit chapel

Creative but nothing fraud tp

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5811768&forum_id=2/#49526159)



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Date: December 21st, 2025 11:28 AM
Author: 180 violet sanctuary

Tell more about paralegal. How does she bring in cases?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5811768&forum_id=2/#49527453)



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Date: December 21st, 2025 3:34 PM
Author: Self-absorbed meetinghouse

Just by being likeable and talking to people and knowing what she's talking about. Lots of family members. She's probably brought in $1 mil in fees since she started with me ~8 years ago. I bought her a car last year.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5811768&forum_id=2/#49528026)



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Date: December 21st, 2025 3:46 PM
Author: 180 violet sanctuary



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5811768&forum_id=2/#49528065)



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Date: December 20th, 2025 3:45 PM
Author: Boyish opaque menage alpha

About 1mil , I wagecucked a lot and this is my ceiling. Anyone who has 5mil networth can make over 10%/yr in qqq and pay much lesser than I.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5811768&forum_id=2/#49525872)



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Date: December 20th, 2025 4:30 PM
Author: transparent scourge upon the earth

425k in a litigation boutique as a non-equity “partner”

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5811768&forum_id=2/#49525997)



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Date: December 21st, 2025 10:03 AM
Author: Costumed contagious public bath pisswyrm

still waiting for bonus which will be 30% of my comp

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5811768&forum_id=2/#49527285)



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Date: December 21st, 2025 10:29 AM
Author: vigorous unholy national security agency ceo

it's likely going to be around $580k this year. i started the year as an equity partner where i got a monthly draw, then moved in april to a firm where i'm a nonequity partner. i forget exactly how much my equity payout for 2024 was, but i think it'll come in around 580.

next year, with my origination bonus for 2025, comp should be around 610-650. not sure what this place is doing with my base for next year, but it better go up because i had $1.8m in originations in 9 months.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5811768&forum_id=2/#49527322)



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Date: December 21st, 2025 10:31 AM
Author: 180 violet sanctuary

That’s good. Do you have to leave a bunch of money in? Is it pretax. Do you get your accountant to withhold tax?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5811768&forum_id=2/#49527331)



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Date: December 21st, 2025 10:37 AM
Author: vigorous unholy national security agency ceo

at the prior firm, i bought in like $20k worth of shares. they returned that to me after i left, but it had increased to like $45k. i figured they were gonna just keep my money. this was all w-2 income with withholdings done. that firm is set up so that everyone is a "shareholder" and employee of the firm it isn't a partnership. when i was in biglaw, when i made partner i got paid on a k-1 basis, which fucking blew.

i'm eligible for equity at this firm at the end of 2026, and i will make it no question. the money i have in the pipeline would be enough originations for 2026 to qualify because the threshold is pretty low here. even if my book implodes in january, i'll have enough.

equity formula, i understand, looks something like: 40% of your "working attorney" number plus 20% of originations, plus something for being a "good firm citizen." i'm filling a need this firm desperately needs - despite having a bunch of labor attorneys, they are entertainment labor lawyers, which means they don't do ANY NLRB litigation or collective bargaining. all they do is interpret 600-page CBAs that were negotiated decades ago and are renegotiated by some employer association. so i guess they will do something for me to reflect that.

if my book in 2027 looks like it does right now, i'd make $1,080,000 or so my first year as an equity partner. this firm is an actual partnership, unfortunately, so i will have to start my own corporation or some kind of bullshit and pay way more in taxes.

we have a dood in my office who sues foreign govts for terrorist acts and brings in like 20 million a year, and that apparently winds up being a windfall to all the equity partners.

all firms should be set up as companies, this partnership stuff sucks ass.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5811768&forum_id=2/#49527344)



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Date: December 22nd, 2025 4:27 PM
Author: 180 violet sanctuary

We just work hard all year then deduct costs from fees earned and whatever is left we split between each other based on ownership proportion. So if we had 4 million in profit and if I have a 25 percent interest then I get a million, less whatever I’ve been taking out to live on during the year. Say $200k for that.

It’s complicated by the need to leave some of that money in operations for the following year because we don’t take loans for that.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5811768&forum_id=2/#49531713)



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Date: December 21st, 2025 10:36 AM
Author: spectacular hissy fit chapel

Looks like I peaked in 2023 at $500k and I've been earning less each year and next year I am really gonna be down big, meanwhile you keep going up

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5811768&forum_id=2/#49527341)



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Date: December 21st, 2025 10:39 AM
Author: vigorous unholy national security agency ceo

it's surprising to me bc i used to not give a fuck about the business side of law. i've always been regarded as really good at what i do, but kind of an oddball and oblivious to biz dev, etc.

when i was in biglaw, an of counsel i hung around with always told me that if i sobered up and quit doing drugs/drinking 24/7, i could have a big book. turns out he was right ($2m is big for me, anyway, and i never thought i'd have anything like this.)

you're doing great brother, anything over 300k is really good.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5811768&forum_id=2/#49527346)



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Date: December 21st, 2025 10:42 AM
Author: spectacular hissy fit chapel

are you hiring? can you mentor me? i really enjoyed ur saltwater tank threading and miss it

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5811768&forum_id=2/#49527349)



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Date: December 21st, 2025 10:46 AM
Author: vigorous unholy national security agency ceo

if i could, i would man. are you open to learning traditional labor law?

i'll be saltthreading again soon. we moved out of our house in august to do a renovation. i have to run over there every few days to feed the fish and maintain the tank. it's 120.

we should be moving back in within a couple weeks and i will resume tank threading and maybe throw in some home renovation threading.



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5811768&forum_id=2/#49527357)



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Date: December 21st, 2025 10:49 AM
Author: spectacular hissy fit chapel

i dont think i wanna learn that. do you think i can bottom for u instead?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5811768&forum_id=2/#49527369)



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Date: December 21st, 2025 10:50 AM
Author: vigorous unholy national security agency ceo

yes but i am not sure what i can pay u. can i finish in ur ass

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5811768&forum_id=2/#49527372)



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Date: December 21st, 2025 11:22 AM
Author: spectacular hissy fit chapel

are you still pozzed?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5811768&forum_id=2/#49527430)



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Date: December 21st, 2025 11:23 AM
Author: vigorous unholy national security agency ceo

undetectable brother

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5811768&forum_id=2/#49527434)



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Date: December 21st, 2025 11:26 AM
Author: spectacular hissy fit chapel

i guess you can finish in my ass. $50 if u can host

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5811768&forum_id=2/#49527443)



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Date: December 21st, 2025 11:36 AM
Author: vigorous unholy national security agency ceo

wow this is hot, let's take this off boart

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5811768&forum_id=2/#49527490)



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Date: December 21st, 2025 10:30 AM
Author: Trip tan affirmative action athletic conference

$595k (which is like $390k after taxes)

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5811768&forum_id=2/#49527325)



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Date: December 21st, 2025 5:53 PM
Author: comical hyperventilating milk



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5811768&forum_id=2/#49528452)



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Date: December 21st, 2025 10:35 AM
Author: saffron box office

Should be $1.036m with rents and assuming the lab business collects as projected in December. The first over $1m year ever, bros.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5811768&forum_id=2/#49527340)



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Date: December 21st, 2025 12:02 PM
Author: wonderful ratface cuck

600-800k in tech depending on stock price, haven’t really checked

30hr/week

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5811768&forum_id=2/#49527544)



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Date: December 22nd, 2025 11:09 PM
Author: Godawful station french chef

180 last note

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5811768&forum_id=2/#49532880)



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Date: December 21st, 2025 1:00 PM
Author: hairraiser factory reset button

About 1.3 mil. Shitlaw boss, real estate investing and other entrepreneurial activities.

It's a great blessing, and things have blown up fast over the last few years after years of toil. Last year was about 500k, 300k before that, lower for many years before that. This is a result of sustained business building, not one big settlement that won't be replicated.

However, this is a very risky seat to be sitting in. I'm a target in a wide variety of ways that I didn't anticipate, and everything could vanish at any moment. I am trying to take chips off the table and put them into safer assets where I can. But that's not easy to do.

Also, there is a hard, fairly low ceiling on my happiness because of my marriage to an angry, bitter woman who gets mad if she sees me enjoying myself. I don't want to divorce her for family reasons, but matters may come to a head in 2026.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5811768&forum_id=2/#49527645)



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Date: December 21st, 2025 4:45 PM
Author: vigorous unholy national security agency ceo

that is 180, very impressive.

very unlikely everything will implode immediately. just plow like $2m into index funds over time and max out retirement accounts. that's what i'm doing. wife and i currently have close to $3m in retirement accounts and if i get to $2m in taxable, i won't worry at all about my book blowing to pieces.

but honestly, you will probably continue doing well so don't worry.

on the marriage, you should try to save it if you think it's salvageable, but if it really is far gone then you should split up. don't stay together for money. but don't be so fast to peace out. maybe if she knows you are putting your foot down, she will knock off her bullshit. maybe not, but you should give it a shot.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5811768&forum_id=2/#49528240)



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Date: December 21st, 2025 5:24 PM
Author: 180 violet sanctuary

I think he has posted about her before. He’s doing a mitzvah staying w her for the kids sake.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5811768&forum_id=2/#49528342)



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Date: December 21st, 2025 5:42 PM
Author: vigorous unholy national security agency ceo

i can't advocate for doing that, but that's just me. nobody should ever do what i did and blow up a good marriage just because they're doing mounds of cocaine and strange pussy, but i also don't believe that you should stay if your relationship is in the shitty and not recoverable.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5811768&forum_id=2/#49528390)



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Date: December 21st, 2025 5:30 PM
Author: Vibrant Corner

just do discreet affairs bro

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5811768&forum_id=2/#49528356)



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Date: December 24th, 2025 11:21 PM
Author: hairraiser factory reset button

Lol at all the poasters counting unrealized investment gains to come up with their headline numbers.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5811768&forum_id=2/#49538515)



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Date: December 26th, 2025 10:13 AM
Author: sepia dilemma

I wouldn’t include it in my headline number but I do think it’s good to note.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5811768&forum_id=2/#49540547)



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Date: December 22nd, 2025 3:04 PM
Author: passionate pearly becky

CSLG free thread. Odd case.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5811768&forum_id=2/#49531487)



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Date: December 22nd, 2025 6:03 PM
Author: Racy Associate

Great q. Most in-housemos have no idea since most won't know bonuses for a bit.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5811768&forum_id=2/#49531946)



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Date: December 23rd, 2025 8:06 AM
Author: azure telephone heaven

count any bonus you received in calendar 2025

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5811768&forum_id=2/#49533223)



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Date: December 22nd, 2025 6:28 PM
Author: Boyish opaque menage alpha

I just started new job. Finished last shift of nights at 5am and today at 9am started new job. Tomorrow will go for a swim before work.. but so far it doesn't seem like it's that easy. But as long as I get to take a 30minute run for lunch plus actually eat another 30 mins it might be a step up from working nights. Bit hourly rate is also lower.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5811768&forum_id=2/#49531986)



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Date: December 22nd, 2025 11:05 PM
Author: sepia dilemma

About $310k in W2/1099, $50k in rental profit, and I think $470k or so in gains (mostly unrealized) and dividends.

Haven’t done the taxes yet though, will report back later.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5811768&forum_id=2/#49532876)



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Date: December 22nd, 2025 11:08 PM
Author: fragrant roast beef nibblets

Up $415,290. W2 wages are about 65% of that.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5811768&forum_id=2/#49532879)



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Date: December 23rd, 2025 8:05 AM
Author: azure telephone heaven

whats the other 35%

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5811768&forum_id=2/#49533222)



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Date: December 25th, 2025 9:02 PM
Author: very tactful state

cap gains

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5811768&forum_id=2/#49539832)



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Date: December 25th, 2025 10:58 PM
Author: azure telephone heaven

are we counting cap gains in what we made this year? id need to revise my number

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5811768&forum_id=2/#49540017)



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Date: December 25th, 2025 11:20 PM
Author: fragrant roast beef nibblets

I'm up like $440k now on the year.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5811768&forum_id=2/#49540047)



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Date: December 25th, 2025 6:55 AM
Author: Costumed contagious public bath pisswyrm

~$500k

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