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

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Comical umber center becky
  12/18/25
710K
Sable main people temple
  12/18/25
lawyer?
Comical umber center becky
  12/18/25
yea
Sable main people temple
  12/18/25
Biglaw?
Comical umber center becky
  12/18/25
Me: 842k Wife: 267K Including last year's bonus
jet-lagged elite meetinghouse
  12/18/25
Lawyers?
Silver nofapping fanboi
  12/18/25
My wife is in-house and I lie on the internet
jet-lagged elite meetinghouse
  12/18/25
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chrome wonderful spot keepsake machete
  12/18/25
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Sapphire party of the first part
  12/19/25
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medicated maniacal yarmulke den
  12/19/25
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massive fragrant range lettuce
  12/19/25
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hairraiser brilliant dopamine
  12/20/25
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Carnelian French Principal's Office Place Of Business
  12/21/25
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violet tripping heaven chad
  12/21/25
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kink-friendly potus
  12/21/25
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sepia lodge
  12/22/25
$350kish, maybe more depending on how collections come in ov...
Fear-inspiring space
  12/18/25
Trash or legal fees?
Comical umber center becky
  12/18/25
Picking up trash would be much more dignified
Fear-inspiring space
  12/18/25
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Sapphire party of the first part
  12/19/25
$130k in shitlaw
pungent trailer park travel guidebook
  12/18/25
as a solo? associate? paralegal?
erotic theater
  12/18/25
AssociaTTTe
pungent trailer park travel guidebook
  12/18/25
why dont you go solo?
Comical umber center becky
  12/18/25
I thought shitlawyers made $60K in MFH
Orange church building
  12/19/25
Nigger voicemail$
pungent trailer park travel guidebook
  12/19/25
A little over $300k as an in house fag. I'm pathetic and poo...
maroon painfully honest roast beef
  12/18/25
When I was a young Inhousemo making $250k, I thought I was t...
maroon painfully honest roast beef
  12/18/25
To be fair, I had a 180 billion lifestyle in my late 20s and...
maroon painfully honest roast beef
  12/18/25
you should've lateraled to $750k 10-2 100% wfh in house ages...
Offensive mad cow disease corner
  12/18/25
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Sable main people temple
  12/18/25
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Swashbuckling Field
  12/19/25
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frum shrine rigpig
  12/21/25
In house is the exit option. There are no exist options from...
Sapphire party of the first part
  12/19/25
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greedy skinny woman resort
  12/19/25
Why is $300k paycheck to paycheck?
Red Mind-boggling Stead Regret
  12/19/25
Over $400k if you add wife. After tax income: ~200k H...
maroon painfully honest roast beef
  12/19/25
You are doing better than paycheck to paycheck.
Red Mind-boggling Stead Regret
  12/19/25
you are retarded or lying because 400k with a family is not...
abusive rusted legal warrant
  12/20/25
I had half my income withheld for taxes. I asked what the fu...
Red Mind-boggling Stead Regret
  12/21/25
286k so far. Prob will make another 15k. Wife 86k
cowardly gay stage black woman
  12/18/25
Does wife's post-tax salary cover the costs of childcare and...
Sapphire party of the first part
  12/19/25
PATRIARCHY!!! Of course it doesn’t.
Tan Cheese-eating Base
  12/19/25
Oh. So why does she work?
Sapphire party of the first part
  12/19/25
180k. worst year in total comp since pre covid
Laughsome bawdyhouse mood
  12/18/25
don't you brag about being rich?
Swashbuckling Field
  12/19/25
sorry to hear it but props for your candor in a thread full ...
Floppy blood rage
  12/19/25
me: ~$400k wife: ~$325k but i was also laid off
Jet Famous Landscape Painting
  12/18/25
if u want chandler to slap u with his dick just say so
Offensive mad cow disease corner
  12/18/25
Very gauche to discuss. Any white people left on here?
saffron sandwich
  12/18/25
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Beady-eyed Bronze Electric Furnace Rigor
  12/18/25
$790K. Wife made about $15K.
Red Mind-boggling Stead Regret
  12/18/25
Doing what, and why?
Comical umber center becky
  12/18/25
I am atty.
Red Mind-boggling Stead Regret
  12/18/25
I know that, I meant your wife
Comical umber center becky
  12/18/25
He's an attorney. What's so complicated?
maroon painfully honest roast beef
  12/18/25
I understand that he's an attorney
chocolate set mexican
  12/19/25
I understand that he's an attorney
chocolate set mexican
  12/19/25
I understand that he's an attorney
Spruce Foreskin
  12/21/25
He's an attorney. What's so complicated?
blue kitchen new version
  12/23/25
I understand that he's an attorney
chocolate set mexican
  12/23/25
Over 50k. Plus I got a $150 honorarium for a talk earlier th...
concupiscible gas station
  12/18/25
I'd love to get an honorarium one day. Very prestigious.
Sapphire party of the first part
  12/19/25
yup, I'd love to get an honorarium one day. Very prestigious...
Spruce Foreskin
  12/21/25
You joke, but I'm unironically proud of my meagre token of p...
concupiscible gas station
  12/21/25
I felt the same when I won a $100 poetry prize. In college. ...
Red Mind-boggling Stead Regret
  12/22/25
Lashing out because the board writ large is mocking you for ...
concupiscible gas station
  12/22/25
? Largely? It’s five unmarried childless losers pissed...
Red Mind-boggling Stead Regret
  12/22/25
I was making fun of honaria. Whatever happened to him?
Spruce Foreskin
  12/22/25
lol I make more money than lex tp
Carnelian French Principal's Office Place Of Business
  12/21/25
Monkey driving a golf cart makes more money than that guy
Red Mind-boggling Stead Regret
  12/21/25
I feel safe in this subthread
shimmering boyish market wagecucks
  12/22/25
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shimmering boyish market wagecucks
  12/22/25
lex how’s your dating life? jw
shimmering boyish market wagecucks
  12/22/25
I only respond to such queries in old fashioned SUMMON: thre...
concupiscible gas station
  12/22/25
why are u dorks including ur wives' earnings
Offensive mad cow disease corner
  12/18/25
Same reason why they included what their wives harvested in ...
Beady-eyed Bronze Electric Furnace Rigor
  12/18/25
i don't even know whether my wife has a job
Offensive mad cow disease corner
  12/18/25
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massive fragrant range lettuce
  12/19/25
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Sapphire party of the first part
  12/19/25
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shimmering boyish market wagecucks
  12/22/25
not enough.
Swashbuckling Field
  12/18/25
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blathering church
  12/20/25
little under $6M
ocher mildly autistic parlour
  12/18/25
MFCR. State occupation, thank.
maroon painfully honest roast beef
  12/18/25
271K TOPS
jet-lagged elite meetinghouse
  12/18/25
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bipolar nibblets
  12/18/25
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Laughsome bawdyhouse mood
  12/18/25
sorry ur mad
ocher mildly autistic parlour
  12/19/25
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bateful ceo
  12/20/25
Six figures, champ.
Clear Bull Headed Psychic
  12/18/25
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chrome wonderful spot keepsake machete
  12/18/25
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Swashbuckling Field
  12/18/25
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mewling goal in life
  12/20/25
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kink-friendly potus
  12/21/25
-$184K
White Mad-dog Skullcap Voyeur
  12/18/25
I fail to see how this is relevant.
Cerebral gold brunch toilet seat
  12/18/25
Pre tax or post tax? Including expected tax credits, debits,...
salmon pistol
  12/18/25
holy fuck how jewish are you
medicated maniacal yarmulke den
  12/19/25
low-200s
drab preventive strike
  12/18/25
0
Burgundy Business Firm
  12/18/25
like 2 million
cream glittery nursing home
  12/18/25
$360k in tech
Bat shit crazy cerise library old irish cottage
  12/19/25
Less than I want but way more than I deserve
Exhilarant disturbing station marketing idea
  12/19/25
I value my wife’s admiration over tax advantages. The...
Amber Sadistic International Law Enforcement Agency
  12/19/25
Shrew'd
Exhilarant disturbing station marketing idea
  12/19/25
lol @ this flame. Women only care about what you can buy th...
sepia lodge
  12/19/25
She sees the tax return but not the brokerage statement. Sh...
Amber Sadistic International Law Enforcement Agency
  12/19/25
(guy playing the long game) at the same time, this is the s...
Floppy blood rage
  12/19/25
thank you
Amber Sadistic International Law Enforcement Agency
  12/19/25
I mean, don't rule anything out, there's something to be sai...
Ruddy motley theatre gaping
  12/19/25
Who wants to pay off my house
vermilion senate
  12/19/25
negative money (lived off debt)
Excitant Striped Hyena Weed Whacker
  12/19/25
~250, not bad but half as much as last year. :(
Hateful Pervert
  12/19/25
what happened
medicated maniacal yarmulke den
  12/19/25
i made a bunch of money off of JMIA last year. ironically if...
Hateful Pervert
  12/19/25
if there's one thing I've learned as a solo it's that annual...
massive fragrant range lettuce
  12/19/25
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Comical umber center becky
  12/19/25
Around 1.7 which is what I made last year. I'm starting to t...
Milky curious patrolman
  12/19/25
$600k as solo lolyer.
greedy skinny woman resort
  12/19/25
Closer to a tenth of that for me. Nasty health problem decim...
domesticated turdskin
  12/20/25
~$900k
Tan Cheese-eating Base
  12/19/25
Paying tax on about $600K, but zero earned income.
black slippery elastic band office
  12/19/25
Wow.
blathering church
  12/19/25
Let me know what I can do to earn about $20k from you.
Swashbuckling Field
  12/19/25
How many blowjobs can I get for that?
black slippery elastic band office
  12/19/25
well my regular price is $20 per nut but since you're buying...
Swashbuckling Field
  12/19/25
That 1/3 sounds disappointing.
black slippery elastic band office
  12/19/25
lol
Trip hospital
  12/19/25
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Swashbuckling Field
  12/22/25
you guys are a bunch of studs, i'm in the 20th decile or so ...
Floppy blood rage
  12/19/25
the only threads on XO more full of shit than income threads...
cyan histrionic hall
  12/19/25
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Floppy blood rage
  12/19/25
I can do 12 full-extension, 13 with a bit of english on the ...
blue kitchen new version
  12/19/25
Lol rfk did 20pullups on video.
Ungodly jap organic girlfriend
  12/19/25
if i used the same form and ROM as him i could crank off lik...
violent insanely creepy national
  12/19/25
Try actually doing pull-ups. You will not get much more by s...
Ungodly jap organic girlfriend
  12/20/25
LOL boor, his form was trash. controlled full ROM pullups fr...
cyan histrionic hall
  12/21/25
You sound poor
sepia lodge
  12/19/25
but self-selection...
mewling goal in life
  12/20/25
I dunno, like 10-15x the American average and also not nearl...
lime casino
  12/19/25
XO to young poasters, " Do NOT go to law school!" ...
Indigo People Who Are Hurt
  12/19/25
Survivor bias. The people from my class who didn’t sur...
lime casino
  12/19/25
Soo cr. Maybe half of the dudes I know about are still lawye...
Exhilarant disturbing station marketing idea
  12/20/25
It would be fascinating to see some actual ROI data on law s...
lime casino
  12/20/25
back in the day standard advice was only go to ls if you're ...
Sable main people temple
  12/20/25
Only once ITE hit. Before that, Gen Xers sleepwalked off a c...
shimmering boyish market wagecucks
  12/20/25
TITCR. The Bill Henderson “Bi-modal distribution of st...
lime casino
  12/20/25
this is correct. I started with 26 people in my summer c...
ocher mildly autistic parlour
  12/20/25
amazing how XO gets the top 1% of lawyers to poast here
Indigo People Who Are Hurt
  12/20/25
The personality that really likes it here actually thrives i...
blathering church
  12/20/25
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Comical umber center becky
  12/20/25
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Sable main people temple
  12/20/25
$160k. The same I made as a first year. Good thing there&r...
hairraiser brilliant dopamine
  12/19/25
I paid just under that in taxes this year
Bat shit crazy cerise library old irish cottage
  12/20/25
somewhere around $220k pre-bonus. bonus will likely be shit ...
Provocative Copper Ticket Booth
  12/20/25
this number includes all income, not just wagecucking.
Provocative Copper Ticket Booth
  12/20/25
actually it might be closer to $240k. idfk i don't keep clos...
Provocative Copper Ticket Booth
  12/20/25
A little over a mil. “Worked” ~10 hours a week. ...
Stimulating dragon
  12/20/25
How do you get your taxable income lower?
heady claret private investor sex offender
  12/20/25
Bought a car (100% depreciation) Pay myself rent -- I own ...
Stimulating dragon
  12/20/25
Creative but nothing fraud tp
Comical umber center becky
  12/20/25
Tell more about paralegal. How does she bring in cases?
Red Mind-boggling Stead Regret
  12/21/25
Just by being likeable and talking to people and knowing wha...
Stimulating dragon
  12/21/25
...
Red Mind-boggling Stead Regret
  12/21/25
About 1mil , I wagecucked a lot and this is my ceiling. Anyo...
Ungodly jap organic girlfriend
  12/20/25
425k in a litigation boutique as a non-equity “partner...
abusive rusted legal warrant
  12/20/25
still waiting for bonus which will be 30% of my comp
Vengeful Sanctuary
  12/21/25
it's likely going to be around $580k this year. i started th...
Spruce Foreskin
  12/21/25
That’s good. Do you have to leave a bunch of money in?...
Red Mind-boggling Stead Regret
  12/21/25
at the prior firm, i bought in like $20k worth of shares. th...
Spruce Foreskin
  12/21/25
We just work hard all year then deduct costs from fees earne...
Red Mind-boggling Stead Regret
  12/22/25
Looks like I peaked in 2023 at $500k and I've been earning l...
Comical umber center becky
  12/21/25
it's surprising to me bc i used to not give a fuck about the...
Spruce Foreskin
  12/21/25
are you hiring? can you mentor me? i really enjoyed ur saltw...
Comical umber center becky
  12/21/25
if i could, i would man. are you open to learning traditiona...
Spruce Foreskin
  12/21/25
i dont think i wanna learn that. do you think i can bottom f...
Comical umber center becky
  12/21/25
yes but i am not sure what i can pay u. can i finish in ur a...
Spruce Foreskin
  12/21/25
are you still pozzed?
Comical umber center becky
  12/21/25
undetectable brother
Spruce Foreskin
  12/21/25
i guess you can finish in my ass. $50 if u can host
Comical umber center becky
  12/21/25
wow this is hot, let's take this off boart
Spruce Foreskin
  12/21/25
$595k (which is like $390k after taxes)
learning disabled queen of the night water buffalo
  12/21/25
...
violet tripping heaven chad
  12/21/25
Should be $1.036m with rents and assuming the lab business c...
flatulent roommate area
  12/21/25
600-800k in tech depending on stock price, haven’t rea...
Pearl chest-beating location karate
  12/21/25
180 last note
concupiscible gas station
  12/22/25
About 1.3 mil. Shitlaw boss, real estate investing and othe...
heady claret private investor sex offender
  12/21/25
that is 180, very impressive. very unlikely everything wi...
Spruce Foreskin
  12/21/25
I think he has posted about her before. He’s doing a ...
Red Mind-boggling Stead Regret
  12/21/25
i can't advocate for doing that, but that's just me. nobody ...
Spruce Foreskin
  12/21/25
just do discreet affairs bro
erotic theater
  12/21/25
Lol at all the poasters counting unrealized investment gains...
heady claret private investor sex offender
  12/24/25
I wouldn’t include it in my headline number but I do t...
Dark juggernaut stain
  12/26/25
CSLG free thread. Odd case.
Thriller Free-loading Stage Gay Wizard
  12/22/25
Great q. Most in-housemos have no idea since most won't kno...
kink-friendly potus
  12/22/25
count any bonus you received in calendar 2025
Sable main people temple
  12/23/25
I just started new job. Finished last shift of nights at 5am...
Ungodly jap organic girlfriend
  12/22/25
About $310k in W2/1099, $50k in rental profit, and I think $...
Dark juggernaut stain
  12/22/25
Up $415,290. W2 wages are about 65% of that.
blathering church
  12/22/25
whats the other 35%
Sable main people temple
  12/23/25
cap gains
blue kitchen new version
  12/25/25
are we counting cap gains in what we made this year? id need...
Sable main people temple
  12/25/25
I'm up like $440k now on the year.
blathering church
  12/25/25
~$500k
Vengeful Sanctuary
  12/25/25


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Date: December 18th, 2025 3:47 PM
Author: Comical umber center becky



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Date: December 18th, 2025 3:48 PM
Author: Sable main people temple

710K

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Date: December 18th, 2025 3:50 PM
Author: Comical umber center becky

lawyer?

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Date: December 18th, 2025 3:54 PM
Author: Sable main people temple

yea

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Date: December 18th, 2025 3:55 PM
Author: Comical umber center becky

Biglaw?

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Date: December 18th, 2025 3:51 PM
Author: jet-lagged elite meetinghouse

Me: 842k

Wife: 267K

Including last year's bonus

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5811768&forum_id=2,#49519915)



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Date: December 18th, 2025 6:05 PM
Author: Silver nofapping fanboi

Lawyers?

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Date: December 18th, 2025 6:07 PM
Author: jet-lagged elite meetinghouse

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

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Date: December 18th, 2025 6:07 PM
Author: chrome wonderful spot keepsake machete



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Date: December 19th, 2025 10:23 AM
Author: Sapphire party of the first part



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Date: December 19th, 2025 11:16 AM
Author: medicated maniacal yarmulke den



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Date: December 19th, 2025 11:19 AM
Author: massive fragrant range lettuce



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Date: December 20th, 2025 9:01 AM
Author: hairraiser brilliant dopamine



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Date: December 21st, 2025 5:33 PM
Author: Carnelian French Principal's Office Place Of Business



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Date: December 21st, 2025 5:53 PM
Author: violet tripping heaven chad



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Date: December 21st, 2025 6:28 PM
Author: kink-friendly potus



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Date: December 22nd, 2025 5:50 PM
Author: sepia lodge



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Date: December 18th, 2025 3:55 PM
Author: Fear-inspiring space

$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: Comical umber center becky

Trash or legal fees?

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Date: December 18th, 2025 4:58 PM
Author: Fear-inspiring space

Picking up trash would be much more dignified

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Date: December 19th, 2025 10:23 AM
Author: Sapphire party of the first part



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Date: December 18th, 2025 3:56 PM
Author: pungent trailer park travel guidebook

$130k in shitlaw

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Date: December 18th, 2025 3:57 PM
Author: erotic theater

as a solo? associate? paralegal?

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Date: December 18th, 2025 4:35 PM
Author: pungent trailer park travel guidebook

AssociaTTTe

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Date: December 18th, 2025 4:35 PM
Author: Comical umber center becky

why dont you go solo?

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

I thought shitlawyers made $60K in MFH

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Date: December 19th, 2025 8:41 PM
Author: pungent trailer park travel guidebook

Nigger voicemail$

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Date: December 18th, 2025 4:00 PM
Author: maroon painfully honest roast beef

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: maroon painfully honest roast beef

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: maroon painfully honest roast beef

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: Offensive mad cow disease corner

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: Sable main people temple



(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: Swashbuckling Field



(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: frum shrine rigpig



(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: Sapphire party of the first part

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: greedy skinny woman resort



(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: Red Mind-boggling Stead Regret

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: maroon painfully honest roast beef

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: Red Mind-boggling Stead Regret

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: abusive rusted legal warrant

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: Red Mind-boggling Stead Regret

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: cowardly gay stage black woman

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: Sapphire party of the first part

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: Tan Cheese-eating Base

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: Sapphire party of the first part

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: Laughsome bawdyhouse mood

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: Swashbuckling Field

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: Floppy blood rage

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: Jet Famous Landscape Painting

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: Offensive mad cow disease corner

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: saffron sandwich

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: Beady-eyed Bronze Electric Furnace Rigor



(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: Red Mind-boggling Stead Regret

$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: Comical umber center becky

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: Red Mind-boggling Stead Regret

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: Comical umber center becky

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: maroon painfully honest roast beef

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: chocolate set mexican

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: chocolate set mexican

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: Spruce Foreskin

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: blue kitchen new version

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: chocolate set mexican

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: concupiscible gas station

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: Sapphire party of the first part

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: Spruce Foreskin

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: concupiscible gas station

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: Red Mind-boggling Stead Regret

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: concupiscible gas station

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: Red Mind-boggling Stead Regret

? 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: Spruce Foreskin

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: Carnelian French Principal's Office Place Of Business

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: Red Mind-boggling Stead Regret

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: shimmering boyish market wagecucks

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: shimmering boyish market wagecucks



(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: shimmering boyish market wagecucks

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: concupiscible gas station

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: Offensive mad cow disease corner

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: Beady-eyed Bronze Electric Furnace Rigor

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: Offensive mad cow disease corner

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: massive fragrant range lettuce



(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: Sapphire party of the first part



(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: shimmering boyish market wagecucks



(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: Swashbuckling Field

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: blathering church



(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: ocher mildly autistic parlour

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: maroon painfully honest roast beef

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: jet-lagged elite meetinghouse

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: bipolar nibblets



(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: Laughsome bawdyhouse mood



(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: ocher mildly autistic parlour

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: bateful ceo



(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: Clear Bull Headed Psychic

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: chrome wonderful spot 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: Swashbuckling Field



(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: mewling goal in life



(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: kink-friendly potus



(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: White Mad-dog Skullcap Voyeur

-$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: Cerebral gold brunch toilet seat

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: salmon pistol

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: medicated maniacal yarmulke den

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: drab preventive strike

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: Burgundy Business Firm

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: cream glittery nursing home

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: Bat shit crazy cerise library old irish cottage

$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: Exhilarant disturbing station marketing idea

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: Amber Sadistic International Law Enforcement Agency

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: Exhilarant disturbing station marketing idea

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: sepia 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: Amber Sadistic International Law Enforcement Agency

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: Floppy blood rage

(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: Amber Sadistic International Law Enforcement Agency

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: Ruddy motley theatre gaping

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: vermilion senate

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: Excitant Striped Hyena Weed Whacker

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: Hateful Pervert

~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: medicated maniacal yarmulke den

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: Hateful Pervert

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: massive fragrant range lettuce

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: Comical umber center becky



(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: Milky curious patrolman

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: greedy skinny woman resort

$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: domesticated turdskin

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: Tan Cheese-eating Base

~$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: black slippery elastic band office

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: blathering church

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: Swashbuckling Field

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: black slippery elastic band office

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: Swashbuckling Field

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: black slippery elastic band office

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: Trip hospital

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: Swashbuckling Field



(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: Floppy blood rage

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: cyan histrionic hall

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: Floppy blood rage



(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: blue kitchen new version

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: Ungodly jap organic girlfriend

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: violent insanely creepy national

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: Ungodly jap organic girlfriend

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: cyan histrionic hall

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: sepia 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: mewling goal in life

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: lime casino

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: Indigo People Who Are Hurt

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: lime casino

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: Exhilarant disturbing station marketing idea

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: lime casino

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: Sable main people temple

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: shimmering boyish market wagecucks

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: lime casino

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: ocher mildly autistic parlour

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: Indigo People Who Are Hurt

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: blathering church

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: Comical umber center becky



(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: Sable main people temple



(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: hairraiser brilliant dopamine

$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: Bat shit crazy cerise library old irish cottage

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: Provocative Copper Ticket Booth

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: Provocative Copper Ticket Booth

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: Provocative Copper Ticket Booth

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: Stimulating dragon

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: heady claret private investor sex offender

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: Stimulating dragon

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: Comical umber center becky

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: Red Mind-boggling Stead Regret

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: Stimulating dragon

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: Red Mind-boggling Stead Regret



(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: Ungodly jap organic girlfriend

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: abusive rusted legal warrant

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: Vengeful Sanctuary

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: Spruce Foreskin

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: Red Mind-boggling Stead Regret

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: Spruce Foreskin

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: Red Mind-boggling Stead Regret

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: Comical umber center becky

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: Spruce Foreskin

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: Comical umber center becky

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: Spruce Foreskin

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: Comical umber center becky

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: Spruce Foreskin

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: Comical umber center becky

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: Spruce Foreskin

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: Comical umber center becky

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: Spruce Foreskin

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: learning disabled queen of the night water buffalo

$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: violet tripping heaven chad



(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: flatulent roommate area

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: Pearl chest-beating location karate

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: concupiscible gas station

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: heady claret private investor sex offender

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: Spruce Foreskin

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: Red Mind-boggling Stead Regret

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: Spruce Foreskin

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: erotic theater

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: heady claret private investor sex offender

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: Dark juggernaut stain

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: Thriller Free-loading Stage Gay Wizard

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: kink-friendly potus

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: Sable main people temple

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: Ungodly jap organic girlfriend

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: Dark juggernaut stain

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: blathering church

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: Sable main people temple

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: blue kitchen new version

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: Sable main people temple

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: blathering church

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: Vengeful Sanctuary

~$500k

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5811768&forum_id=2,#49538879)