While I’m not comfortable sharing things like financial details online, I am curious as to the demographics of the Dope and would be willing to answer them anonymously. Hopefully others will also, thus, a census poll.
Okey doke- I wanted to ask questions other than just the income but can’t figure if there’s a way to do so (mainly education, geography, relationship status, age, etc.). Can you ask more than one question on these polls?
I’m a grad student. (And a masters student at that, not the PhD-type that gets automatic TA jobs.) Obviously I am really poor.
My husband and I are BOTH grad students. Does that make us twice as poor?
(Actually, we’re quite comfortable, but I’ve noticed our definition of ‘‘comfortable’’ is vastly different than a lot of Dopers’.)
My wife staying home with our baby this year dropped us down a peg on your little polly scale thing.
Still, we’re pretty comfortable.
Mrs. Homie and I together make pretty much the median family income for Sangamon County. Granted, there’s a vast difference between Sangamon County, Illinois and, say, Westchester County, New York. But by central Illinois standards we’re in the exact middle.
The simplified answer is I’m a software quality engineer. The long answer is interesting, but I’m too lazy to write it.
I’d have put in a few more gradations on the upper end. I’d be idly curious how many we have with $1,000,000+ annual incomes ( all sources of income tallied ). Given the diversity of locations, $100K is a decent indicator of at least doing well, but not necessarily subjective wealth in really expensive markets like SF or NYC.
You’re limited to four.
Really? Is that new? The pet poll has ten.
Yes, I agree with Tamerlane - living in Sydney, even if you do the math to USD from AUD, 100K is…well, it’s ok. Not, yanno, great or anything.
I’m comfortable sharing this sort of info. I converted my income from GBP to USD and turns out I earn $22,500. Sounds a lot better than £14,100! I work for a charity doing admin (equivalent jobs in the private sector typically start between £16-£18K).
My wife’s mid-way through a medical degree so our income is lower than it might otherwise be… in 5-6 yrs time it should be at least double though.
I make significantly more than the average grad student, it seems (at least per PhDComics 
).
But education doesn’t relate to money, right? Look at the graduate students, they are making less money yet they’re probably more educated than others who are out there.
Foreign aid worker, living in Kabul.
After some calcul/conversion, I can say we live just a bit above the poverty line for France or the USA.
Damn, I didn’t think this board would skew as well-off as it is.
It doesn’t surprise me, though.
Meh, $100,000 isn’t that much in a two-income household.
Yeah, I think the “household income” part is skewing things. I’d have phrased it as “household income divided by the number of adults.”
$100,000 per year in Sangamon County, Illinois = Doin’ pretty damn well!
$100,000 per year in Crawford County, Missouri = Holy SHIT you’re loaded!
$100,000 per year in Westchester County, New York = We’re just scrapin’ by.
Maybe a new poll should be created w/r/t your income vis a vis the median family income in your state/county/country/etc.