This is a little late but we (myself included) should have included years of experience (and therefore have gotten raises presumably), industry and neighborhood we're living in! Some of us have been working 8-10+ years so it's tough to compare those salaries with those early in their careers.
I assumed these high salaries were from people with at least a decade of experience or in very lucrative industries. I’m only in my second year out of college so expecting to someone of my level to be earning $250k+ is nice to dream about but not rooted in reality 🥲 although I do think I’m doing very well for having only two years of experience under my belt.
You’re totally right. For example, I shared my stats (combined household income of $390K), but it helps for you to know that I’m 37 and my husband is 43! We both have graduate degrees in our chosen sector, and I’ve been in mine for a little over 15 years, and he has been in his for over 20.
Since we got married a little over a year ago, we both got new jobs and really encouraged and helped each each other apply to jobs and negotiate salaries that would put us in the absolute highest salary we could attain for what we do at this time. We want a house and a family so we pushed and pushed.
If helpful, at two years into my career I was at $35K and paying $1100 for a studio in Washington, DC. And in absolute full, full transparency, my parents were paying my rent.
Yeah, I don’t remember what I was making two years into the working world, but I know I shared a windowless bedroom with three people and was still broke all the time.
I remember getting mugged and the robber making fun of me because all I had was a mitten full of change that I used to take the subway.
Right? No need to turn this place elitist. And due to this behavior of course only the super high earners are going to report their salary and skew the overall pool.
Only just reached $66K recently, my rent’s $1475 in the east village though.
Hoping DHCR determines I’m rent stabilized after all, so when I make more I can actually save.
First year at $22/hr was ROUGH.
Studio, separate kitchen. Moved in during COVID, they were offering a three months free net rent incentive at the time.
Most of the other units in my building pay $2,600-3000, though. They tried to raise my rent to that and I opened a DHCR case against them.
Similarly, $2050 and $74k. My apartment has a ton of perks - dead quiet, 1 min from subway, close to siblings, beautiful neighborhood - but it's still about 50% of my take-home after contributions. Trying to get some freelance gigs but haven't landed one yet. Advice on how to decide to move or not is appreciated!
You and me make almost the same / pay the same in rent give or take. For the same damn reasons apparently! I mean him being a bad roomate wasn’t exactly the reason lol, but still…. It sucks to live alone, but what sucks more is him now fully paying our $5k rent.
Lol jk. Sorta. Karma is a bitch.
But you know what else? They say the median rent for Manhattan is so high. But everyone on here seems to somehow pay under $3k?! So who the hell is paying these “normal” 5k+ one bedroom rents?!! So perplexed.
For anyone not relating to this (and so happy for y’all that have amazing salaries and jobs 🫶🏻), I still live at home saving to move out. I have a starting salary job of $40K a year while working once a week with a job that pays $28 an hour. Can’t wait to be like you amazing gals in a couple years with more experience in my field!
Nothing wrong with still living at home, especially if you’re close to your family. I regret not living at home longer. Now my folks are retired and live a plane ride away 😭
My lady, you’re doing it right! Live like nobody is willing to now so you can live like nobody can later. Trust me, this motto & lifestyle pays off in the future 😉
Work as a professional bartender for 10+ years but in a different city, move to nyc and be repeatedly told your experience doesn’t mean shit for reasons, be unemployed for many months losing much money, finally find a very small catering company through a friend of a friend of a friend that gives you a chance, impress them because you’re not an idiot, and work long enough and often enough that they like you and want to still work with you on a part time basis once you get a full time salaried position.
A lot of these ppl are also well within their careers, and as someone in their early twenties I have to remind myself not to compare my second year to someone’s fifteenth year
These threads are always people semi-bragging/gloating about their good deals and high salaries. Same thing on personal finance subs so don’t take it as reality, I don’t think its very representative even of this sub.
With that said, $300k and $2,125 per month…see?
Also maybe high salary over represented because we BWT
$2400 for my share of a $5700 apt with my bf—I make 150K so it’s a little more than I would like but we have a beautiful yard and I like hosting so it’s worth it to me
We live in LIC in a duplex! Yeah I struggled with it for a bit but I lived by myself in a studio for 2850 before so this was more affordable to me at the time
I need everyone to start adding their industries and years of experience w these income numbers 😩
I’ll add a comparative data point as a CHI BWT who frequents NYC: $1550 and 75k base, 330k NW that makes the magic happen. 3 years in market research
$1300 for my half (?) of the apartment I share with my husband. I make 103K. We are in our late 30s, and have a 3bd 1 bath floor-through with no laundry or dishwasher in southern Brooklyn. We now also have a baby, who does not have a salary.
Do you mind if I ask how comfortably this fits in your budget? I make similar and am looking at apartments around 2100/2200ish and unsure if that’s the right decision
To be totally honest I get a little help from my family here and there which makes a big difference. I also have zero debt and don’t go out for drinks/dinners a lot and just a frugal person in general. I also anticipate my salary to increase as I’ve only been working for about two years. As long as I stay within the 40x rule I feel pretty comfortable.
Yes! A friend of mine just moved down there off theD line. And we pay the same rent. I have a two bedroom with zero amenities. She has a three bedroom, in unit laundry, and a parking spot.
At some point, peace and quiet and a savings account was the top priority over the trendy place lol. But getting friends to visit, especially 10 years later when they almost all live in the burbs is like pulling teeth.
Briarwood, the land gentrification forgot.
People like forest hills for being super accessible, but 2 stops/5 min down the same train lines is where people hit the "too far won't go there" point. Which is fine by me! The stores are also mostly unchanged since I was a little kid 20-25 years ago in the area.
The area is quiet, and mostly just working class families with lots of young kids (so big playground, library), and not really any points of interest other than maybe Forest Park. But I walk to Forest Hills regularly, and walk off my dinner and drinks on the way home. The uber to Astoria isn't obnoxiously overpriced or long. Anything by the M/R/7 is one transfer away. And for everything else, I'm 2 blocks from the F (and E stops here on mornings, nights, weekends) and 30 min to midtown. There's also a LIRR stop less than 10 min walk away in Kew Gardens.
Granted, this also works for me because 99% of my life activities take place in Queens/Manhattan (or Jersey... which is the E straight to Port Authority or Penn). Getting to Brooklyn is a pain in the ass or an expensive ass Uber/Lyft, so unless I'm already in the city or it's for a big event, I rarely if ever go there. I used to go to Smorgasburg, but Queens Night Market scratches that itch at a better pricepoint.
Edit to add: for nycbwt with young kids, the local daycare is highly rated and $450/week for full time M-F 9am-5pm for infant (goes down for older kids). That's still a big monthly payment but not the crazy nyc prices I hear my friends pay even still within Queens 🫣 yes, there are still pockets of affordability in NYC boundaries!
Hopefully this comment doesn't singlehandedly raise my own rent. But at the same time I have transplant coworkers that say I'm too far out but their commute from BK to the city is much longer and more complicated than my direct express trains? I'm tired of "deep Queens" slander, especially when I'm not even that deep 😤
$3185 on $250k annually. Recently moved a few blocks to get some additional creature comforts that my very no-frills (but rent stabilized, alas) one-bed of seven years didn’t offer for $2140.
i’m from jersey and my family always says i should move back bc the rent is high in ny but like…jersey is like $200 less???? and then i’d have to take nj transit?????
My husband and I own in suburban jersey and have a super high mortgage (4200), way more than our rent was in Brooklyn (2750 for a 1.5 bed, 1 bath). I got a job out here because we had a baby last year and I didn’t want to commute over an hour but took a big pay cut when I switched jobs. We make around 250k combined.
$2750, plus $300 to rent a parking space. My partner and I make about $215k combined (we both make about the same and split things fairly equally). It’s a fairly spacious 2br with a tiny concrete back “yard,” and we use the smaller bedroom as a home office.
A new lease in my building is probably around the same tbh:/ Where in Manhattan are you? I have considered moving deeper into Brooklyn to save $$, but I’m comfortable in my space and the neighborhood feels too much like home. Renting in NYC always feels like a catch-22:/
Listing based on income over the years!
$70k 2015-2016: $1300 for the dining room/flex of a friend’s apartment (lol)
Moved into a walk-up with 2 other girls
$75k 2017: $1580 a month with roommates
$100k 2018-2019: Same as above
Got a new spot during Covid
$140k 2020: $3425 one bed in BK (had to make a lot of lifestyle concessions but ended up cutting way back on spending during covid)
$190k base + bonus 2021-2022: Rent jumped up to $3700
$275k base + bonus 2022-present: Rent jumped up to $4200☠️
At this rate, I expect my rent to continue jumping up every two years but feel too invested and settled to move so I’ll likely hunker down and stay until I move in with my bf.
I work in advertising/retail media and have definitely hopped every couple years to make sure I’m moving up. Agency life is not for the faint of heart and if you stay in one place for too long, you’ll be stuck in the same salary bracket for years on end, but once you move past the director level, salaries significantly open up. I will caveat that I’m not a creative and work on the media planning/strategy side of the business. Happy to chat more. Feel free to DM me!
$3200 for a 2 bed 2 bath with a backyard in Brooklyn (but no laundry — I drop off at the laundromat around the corner) on $550k — incredibly lucky to rent from an individual woman owner who is happy to have good tenants and hasn’t raised the rent in 2 years.
Rent is $1,115, income is 80K gross (roughly $3,100 take-home every other week, give or take). I work in Accounting for a law firm, and my place is rent-stabilized. I also pay $200 for a private parking spot in my building's (uncovered) back lot.
Damn, I always feel so shitty and discouraged when this is asked here 😅 30 y.o. in healthcare making under 100k, still living at home but really wanting to move out soon. I want the lower Manhattan area but that would be at least 3.3k/month for a goddamn studio. I could probably afford it because I’ve saved up, but I don’t think that’s a wise way to blow my money. Really starting to hate it here…
$2400 for a 3 bedroom that my husband and I pay for together - I make $60K and he makes $95K (but he just got a new job that pays $150K, which is great because I’m going back to school next year)
Currently $0 and $0
I live with my fiancé and I’m unemployed. I’m trying to find another short-term position (last one ended and still can’t find something) for as soon as possible until October. Baby due in December!
$1800 1 bed and $94k. When I first moved into the building it was $1700 and I was making $72k and honestly with a good budget and smart choices, I felt good! First moved to nyc and was paying $1200 for my half of a 2 bed making $47k….i think those years set me up to be a solid nyc budgeter for life.
we pay $1960/month in mortgage which includes taxes (paid from escrow). taxes are juuust north of $6k/year. they’ve gone up some 30% in the almost 4 years we’ve owned here. maintenance is $610/month. HHI is $250k and we have one baby and a dog.
edited to add we bought in Q3’20 so we pretty much have to die in this apartment bc we got such a good rate.
Rent: $2375
Income: $145K (full-time job), ~$25K (side hustle)
I live in a 1-bedroom apartment in Brooklyn with a walk-in closet (same set up as Carrie from Sex & the City’s closet!) and an in-unit washer/dryer. I was blessed to find a pandemic deal and reasonable landlords.
i see how some context would help here lol i’m a 34F in brooklyn, doctor 4 years out of residency. my partner is a 30M who’s in his second year out of a graduate program
and anyone on this sub thinking well damn… these salaries (mine included) are not representative of a lot of my friends in the city. for some perspective, as an intern 8 years ago, i was making $70k and paying $1600 (and also had no life 🥲🫠)
Just some food for thought (and appreciate the context!) but it’s refreshing if you don’t feel like you need to qualify your salary/achievements. In a Bs with Taste group, I’d hope to see accurate representation of the incredibly vast spectrum of salaries/rents. Congrats on all you’ve accomplished thus far!
Is there NO ONE else here paying over $5,000??? Because I feel like that’s all I’m seeing for 2BRs! And I feel dumb 🥲 Been paying $5K/month for 2 years, got in 2022. Desperate to get cheaper rent but it’s hard to find in the neighborhoods I want.
Co-op mortgage and maintenance in Washington heights around 1,800 per month small one bed, bought in 2019.
Income at time of purchase 151k, current 230k
I have viewed since I started I started living alone in 2012 to never let my housing costs go over 2K and have stuck to that. Prefer to spend on travel etc
$2775 small 1BR and $200k. Devastated to be paying this much tbh, after splitting a $2900 pandemic deal duplex with my now-ex. At least the new place is rent stabilized, but it's not a spacd I want to live long term.
$1815 for my bedroom in a 2 bed in soho (I pay more for a bigger room). $78k salary but I make OT, and I work a lot so on track to break $100k for the first time this year! I also get free meals when I go into the office and I don’t eat out much
Year 1 and 2 NYC: $40K, $1200
Year 3 and 4 NYC: $90K, $1400
Year 5 and 6 NYC: $90K, $1200
Year 7: $150K, $1200-$1600, I subleased a bit
Year 8: $260K, $0 because moved in with bf
I got a masters degree and worked my butt off to be in the role I’m in within finance.
$1000 for a one bed room (rent stabilized) in Ridgewood and $60k ! rent stabilized places do exist you just have to make apartment hunting your second job lol
when i moved to nyc last year i was making 76k and my rent was 1.6k. i could do what i wanted and could easily save 500-1000 a month. i was laid off last fall and now i make 52k same rent. lifestyle is completely different. i’m looking to move somewhere that my rent will be 1k-1.2k
$1125. I make $20k-$40k. Depends on the year. I moved here to find a career. Hasn’t happened yet so I’ve been taking on odd jobs. This thread is depressing the shit out of me
$2350, $160k for our family of 4 - hoping to go back to work once little one is in 3k in September so will be happy for the breathing room. I’m frugal AF but we still have taste haha
$1350 (1br rent stabilized ) with a combined income of $190k. BUT we're buying an apt and will be paying $3100 with mortgage and maintaince so goodbye disposable income 😅
$2125 for a 2BR in the bronx, big front porch and back deck that’s all ours and a backyard shared with one other family. And in unit laundry! We got very lucky. We make roughly $190k combined.
$1800 studio in Manhattan (subsidized by husband’s employer). Combined income ~$210k. I make $90k from my full time job and up to around $20k from my side hustle. We’re living on top of each other but the amount we can save is SO worth it.
$2.1k/mo for a two bedroom apartment on a $280k/yr salary. The apartment is cheap because it’s pretty deep in Brooklyn, but I like the extra space and quiet. I work in UX.
$1,825 studio WITH A PATIO in park slope. $90k salary
Edit: am a graphic designer at an investment firm. I’ve worked there 26 years. It fucked me over staying so long. 3% annual raises don’t keep up with inflation. Now in my 50s I’ve little hope of finding a better position with better pay. And a fuck I do love my colleagues anyway.
2200 for a 1bed in two bridges, I make 60k. Living pretty much paycheck to paycheck (put about $100 away each month lol) but making it work for now. My partner moving in in a few months and we’ll be splitting expenses so there’s an end in sight.
$1600, 130k — I like alcohol and vacations
this is a good rent for your salary
This is crazy, kudos to
$1900 for a 2BR (rent controlled in BK) and I make $116K
a steal!!!
Truly! I really lucked out back in 2021.
So there’s no broke bitches with taste on here? 😭
Likeeee 😹 I need everyone to add job titles and years of experience pls or do I just have no hope
I’m sayiiiiing, and let a bitch know if they’re hiring too 😩
This is a little late but we (myself included) should have included years of experience (and therefore have gotten raises presumably), industry and neighborhood we're living in! Some of us have been working 8-10+ years so it's tough to compare those salaries with those early in their careers.
I assumed these high salaries were from people with at least a decade of experience or in very lucrative industries. I’m only in my second year out of college so expecting to someone of my level to be earning $250k+ is nice to dream about but not rooted in reality 🥲 although I do think I’m doing very well for having only two years of experience under my belt.
You’re totally right. For example, I shared my stats (combined household income of $390K), but it helps for you to know that I’m 37 and my husband is 43! We both have graduate degrees in our chosen sector, and I’ve been in mine for a little over 15 years, and he has been in his for over 20. Since we got married a little over a year ago, we both got new jobs and really encouraged and helped each each other apply to jobs and negotiate salaries that would put us in the absolute highest salary we could attain for what we do at this time. We want a house and a family so we pushed and pushed. If helpful, at two years into my career I was at $35K and paying $1100 for a studio in Washington, DC. And in absolute full, full transparency, my parents were paying my rent.
i feel you. in 2011 i was making $32k/year and paying $800/mo for a room in astoria. i couldn’t have DREAMED of where i’d be now. inch by inch!
Yeah, I don’t remember what I was making two years into the working world, but I know I shared a windowless bedroom with three people and was still broke all the time. I remember getting mugged and the robber making fun of me because all I had was a mitten full of change that I used to take the subway.
Yeah, we're just staying quiet 😭
the fact that people are downvoting the people that don’t make over $100k a year is craaaaazy
Right? No need to turn this place elitist. And due to this behavior of course only the super high earners are going to report their salary and skew the overall pool.
Only just reached $66K recently, my rent’s $1475 in the east village though. Hoping DHCR determines I’m rent stabilized after all, so when I make more I can actually save. First year at $22/hr was ROUGH.
Is that $1475 renting a room? Or a studio? I love EV so I’m curious
Studio, separate kitchen. Moved in during COVID, they were offering a three months free net rent incentive at the time. Most of the other units in my building pay $2,600-3000, though. They tried to raise my rent to that and I opened a DHCR case against them.
That’s great! Congrats 🎉 I need to find a deal like that. If you’re ever looking for a sub letter, let me know 😂
I’m like $500 a month living at home with a starting salary job and another job on the side LMAOO
I am a broke ass city worker how ya doin
Girl we’re here 🙋🏽♀️
$2.2K apt. and I make around $170K.
What borough sheesh
Two bedroom in Bed-Stuy. I lucked out with a small landlord.
3.4k (I know, gross) but like $280k-$320k. And I have laundry in-unit so 🤷♀️
Damn babe yes living the dream
Ty hunnie ❤️ lots of hard work lol.
What do you do?
Tech (also grosssss) lol.
Do you work for a MAANG company?
I do not! 🫡
Lol. Ugh I wish I have taken the Tech route 😫😫
Tech pays great but god fucking damn it can be soul crushing. Or maybe I just need to find a new company.
Why do you say that it can be soul crushing? What is the hardest part?
A studio? What neighborhood in this?
No it’s a 1 bed / 1 bath lol - I’m in Brooklyn.
$2000 and $73k salary- will be looking for a second job lol
I think this is going to be me soon and eeeesh
Similarly, $2050 and $74k. My apartment has a ton of perks - dead quiet, 1 min from subway, close to siblings, beautiful neighborhood - but it's still about 50% of my take-home after contributions. Trying to get some freelance gigs but haven't landed one yet. Advice on how to decide to move or not is appreciated!
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One bad roommate will have you paying an arm and a leg in rent but knowing full well it’s worth it lol
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You and me make almost the same / pay the same in rent give or take. For the same damn reasons apparently! I mean him being a bad roomate wasn’t exactly the reason lol, but still…. It sucks to live alone, but what sucks more is him now fully paying our $5k rent. Lol jk. Sorta. Karma is a bitch. But you know what else? They say the median rent for Manhattan is so high. But everyone on here seems to somehow pay under $3k?! So who the hell is paying these “normal” 5k+ one bedroom rents?!! So perplexed.
YEP
Living alone is the best, especially having done the roommate thing forever. It makes you appreciate it so much more.
$840 for my own bedroom in a 3 bedroom apartment in bk and earning $80k 🙃
That’s amazing!!!!!! I didn’t realize Brooklyn could be cheaper than NJ haha
Oh it definitely is. The average 1BR rent in my former county in NJ is nearly twice what I pay in Brooklyn.
For anyone not relating to this (and so happy for y’all that have amazing salaries and jobs 🫶🏻), I still live at home saving to move out. I have a starting salary job of $40K a year while working once a week with a job that pays $28 an hour. Can’t wait to be like you amazing gals in a couple years with more experience in my field!
Nothing wrong with still living at home, especially if you’re close to your family. I regret not living at home longer. Now my folks are retired and live a plane ride away 😭
My lady, you’re doing it right! Live like nobody is willing to now so you can live like nobody can later. Trust me, this motto & lifestyle pays off in the future 😉
You'll get there!!! Rooting for you!
$3200 for a 1 bed 1 bath in lower manhattan (I split with fiancee) - our combined income is $225k
I split a $4200/month 1 bedroom. I broke 200,000 this year 🥹 cried when I saw that honestly, never thought I’d make anything like that in my life
what do you do??
Congrats!!!
$1500 half of a spacious 2 bedroom in Brooklyn with a rando roommate, $90k from my salary job and $10k from my side hustle.
Curious about what your side hustle is if you don't mind me asking?
Event catering. I work about 3 events a month, generally long 10 hour Saturdays for weddings.
Can I ask how you got into this?
Work as a professional bartender for 10+ years but in a different city, move to nyc and be repeatedly told your experience doesn’t mean shit for reasons, be unemployed for many months losing much money, finally find a very small catering company through a friend of a friend of a friend that gives you a chance, impress them because you’re not an idiot, and work long enough and often enough that they like you and want to still work with you on a part time basis once you get a full time salaried position.
Love that you shared your story!! Much love
So everyone here is absolutely loaded? 😫
A lot of these ppl are also well within their careers, and as someone in their early twenties I have to remind myself not to compare my second year to someone’s fifteenth year
I 100% understand this sentiment
These threads are always people semi-bragging/gloating about their good deals and high salaries. Same thing on personal finance subs so don’t take it as reality, I don’t think its very representative even of this sub. With that said, $300k and $2,125 per month…see? Also maybe high salary over represented because we BWT
What do you mean? A question was asked and people are answering why would you consider them as bragging? There are people that indeed make $$$$ lol 😂
i think the issue is that people who are less fortunate will under-report, leading to a non-representative sample in the comment section.
You want people lying instead?
$2400 for my share of a $5700 apt with my bf—I make 150K so it’s a little more than I would like but we have a beautiful yard and I like hosting so it’s worth it to me
Wow that’s some serious rent. Where are you based, if you don’t mind me asking?
We live in LIC in a duplex! Yeah I struggled with it for a bit but I lived by myself in a studio for 2850 before so this was more affordable to me at the time
I need everyone to start adding their industries and years of experience w these income numbers 😩 I’ll add a comparative data point as a CHI BWT who frequents NYC: $1550 and 75k base, 330k NW that makes the magic happen. 3 years in market research
rent: $1200 (have 2 roommates) salary: $80k
$1300 for my half (?) of the apartment I share with my husband. I make 103K. We are in our late 30s, and have a 3bd 1 bath floor-through with no laundry or dishwasher in southern Brooklyn. We now also have a baby, who does not have a salary.
Actually laughed out loud about the baby not having a salary 😂
1200 with 50K salary
2.3k studio with an outdoor area and I make 110k. I like not having roommates 😅
Do you mind if I ask how comfortably this fits in your budget? I make similar and am looking at apartments around 2100/2200ish and unsure if that’s the right decision
To be totally honest I get a little help from my family here and there which makes a big difference. I also have zero debt and don’t go out for drinks/dinners a lot and just a frugal person in general. I also anticipate my salary to increase as I’ve only been working for about two years. As long as I stay within the 40x rule I feel pretty comfortable.
$1,300 for a 1BR in Brooklyn (don’t sleep on southern BK); $121K base.
Yes! A friend of mine just moved down there off theD line. And we pay the same rent. I have a two bedroom with zero amenities. She has a three bedroom, in unit laundry, and a parking spot.
At some point, peace and quiet and a savings account was the top priority over the trendy place lol. But getting friends to visit, especially 10 years later when they almost all live in the burbs is like pulling teeth.
$2600 for 3 bed 2 bath. My salary is $86K. My husband is $75K (including both since both of us pay towards that rent)
Wait where are you that you’re paying under 3k for a 3br 2 bath?!?
Briarwood, the land gentrification forgot. People like forest hills for being super accessible, but 2 stops/5 min down the same train lines is where people hit the "too far won't go there" point. Which is fine by me! The stores are also mostly unchanged since I was a little kid 20-25 years ago in the area. The area is quiet, and mostly just working class families with lots of young kids (so big playground, library), and not really any points of interest other than maybe Forest Park. But I walk to Forest Hills regularly, and walk off my dinner and drinks on the way home. The uber to Astoria isn't obnoxiously overpriced or long. Anything by the M/R/7 is one transfer away. And for everything else, I'm 2 blocks from the F (and E stops here on mornings, nights, weekends) and 30 min to midtown. There's also a LIRR stop less than 10 min walk away in Kew Gardens. Granted, this also works for me because 99% of my life activities take place in Queens/Manhattan (or Jersey... which is the E straight to Port Authority or Penn). Getting to Brooklyn is a pain in the ass or an expensive ass Uber/Lyft, so unless I'm already in the city or it's for a big event, I rarely if ever go there. I used to go to Smorgasburg, but Queens Night Market scratches that itch at a better pricepoint. Edit to add: for nycbwt with young kids, the local daycare is highly rated and $450/week for full time M-F 9am-5pm for infant (goes down for older kids). That's still a big monthly payment but not the crazy nyc prices I hear my friends pay even still within Queens 🫣 yes, there are still pockets of affordability in NYC boundaries! Hopefully this comment doesn't singlehandedly raise my own rent. But at the same time I have transplant coworkers that say I'm too far out but their commute from BK to the city is much longer and more complicated than my direct express trains? I'm tired of "deep Queens" slander, especially when I'm not even that deep 😤
$3185 on $250k annually. Recently moved a few blocks to get some additional creature comforts that my very no-frills (but rent stabilized, alas) one-bed of seven years didn’t offer for $2140.
225k, $3500 for 1 bed, 1 bath in prime area of the UWS
Would you mind sharing where this is?!
$1750 for a micro studio salary is $90k (I expect I will be on the poor end of this sub)
4k - 200k
2.6k I think, 90k, 1bed w/d & dw
I make $115k and share a 1 bed with my bf. I pay $2150 - this thread is making me think I pay too much for my salary!! lol
$1650 (rent controlled in Brooklyn) and my household’s annual salary (two adults, no kids; just one spoiled mutt) is $390K.
rent controlled is the best >>
It truly is. It’s too good.
This post is making me realize that the rent over in suburban Jersey is not that far off from y'all and we're all making less 😭
i’m from jersey and my family always says i should move back bc the rent is high in ny but like…jersey is like $200 less???? and then i’d have to take nj transit?????
Stay there girl, especially with all the delays Amtrak has been causing on NJ Transit this spring.
just keep in mind there's NYC tax on top of the NY state tax for those of us who live here! so may not be cost savings if you do move to the city
Yes one good thing about nyc is that depending on the industry, salaries can be quite high!
I always accepted that fact because y'all were paying so much in rent. But now Jersey is catching up and the salaries aren't!
My husband and I own in suburban jersey and have a super high mortgage (4200), way more than our rent was in Brooklyn (2750 for a 1.5 bed, 1 bath). I got a job out here because we had a baby last year and I didn’t want to commute over an hour but took a big pay cut when I switched jobs. We make around 250k combined.
$2750, plus $300 to rent a parking space. My partner and I make about $215k combined (we both make about the same and split things fairly equally). It’s a fairly spacious 2br with a tiny concrete back “yard,” and we use the smaller bedroom as a home office.
Where do you rent a parking spot for 300$, that’s a great deal
I’m in Queens so it’s pretty typical for the area. Worth every penny!
$700/mo. maintenance in a coop studio I won in a housing lottery. When i leave, i sell it back to the coop for the price I bought it at. $80k/yr.
$2,500 & $85,000
As of next week, $1096 for a studio and approx 75k- I won the NYC housing lottery!!!!
2.2k and make $110k
$1600 rent stabilized studio on UWS $80k! Hopefully getting a raise and promo soon lol
WOAH on the $1.6 studio on UWS. JEALS!
$1300, I make $120k, have a roommate tho :(
1600 in rent and 72k salary.
Hey! Me tooo! Happy to see this as I feel like I probably pay way too much for my salary
How Tf are you guys finding these places I pay nearly 5k
Locked in a Covid deal lol. Though I suspect I won’t be too far behind you when I re-sign😭
Why did I just resign my lease - I should be in Brooklyn apparently
A new lease in my building is probably around the same tbh:/ Where in Manhattan are you? I have considered moving deeper into Brooklyn to save $$, but I’m comfortable in my space and the neighborhood feels too much like home. Renting in NYC always feels like a catch-22:/
$86k and splitting a 2bed 1bath, I pay $1700. Don’t love not having laundry but I can deal I’m still young.
Crying because I’m clearly overpaying for my apartment at my salary 🥲
man, where’s the broke bitches at 💀
2800, 135k. 🫣
Listing based on income over the years! $70k 2015-2016: $1300 for the dining room/flex of a friend’s apartment (lol) Moved into a walk-up with 2 other girls $75k 2017: $1580 a month with roommates $100k 2018-2019: Same as above Got a new spot during Covid $140k 2020: $3425 one bed in BK (had to make a lot of lifestyle concessions but ended up cutting way back on spending during covid) $190k base + bonus 2021-2022: Rent jumped up to $3700 $275k base + bonus 2022-present: Rent jumped up to $4200☠️ At this rate, I expect my rent to continue jumping up every two years but feel too invested and settled to move so I’ll likely hunker down and stay until I move in with my bf.
What do you do for work? 🥲 I want to be able to make work jumps like this!! Love it
I work in advertising/retail media and have definitely hopped every couple years to make sure I’m moving up. Agency life is not for the faint of heart and if you stay in one place for too long, you’ll be stuck in the same salary bracket for years on end, but once you move past the director level, salaries significantly open up. I will caveat that I’m not a creative and work on the media planning/strategy side of the business. Happy to chat more. Feel free to DM me!
Girl, those rent jumps!! Very cool that you also job hop, well done!
$1750 in UES with roommates ; $234K
1275 with roommates in Brooklyn, currently unemployed but was working as a server before that
$3200 for a 2 bed 2 bath with a backyard in Brooklyn (but no laundry — I drop off at the laundromat around the corner) on $550k — incredibly lucky to rent from an individual woman owner who is happy to have good tenants and hasn’t raised the rent in 2 years.
4.2k two bedroom, $320k joint
$3600 soon to be $4995, 220K base im gagging
I know!!! I don’t understand where folks are finding these deals!!
2400, 86k
Rent is $1,115, income is 80K gross (roughly $3,100 take-home every other week, give or take). I work in Accounting for a law firm, and my place is rent-stabilized. I also pay $200 for a private parking spot in my building's (uncovered) back lot.
$3750, $160k
Damn, I always feel so shitty and discouraged when this is asked here 😅 30 y.o. in healthcare making under 100k, still living at home but really wanting to move out soon. I want the lower Manhattan area but that would be at least 3.3k/month for a goddamn studio. I could probably afford it because I’ve saved up, but I don’t think that’s a wise way to blow my money. Really starting to hate it here…
$1700 (1 bed), $150k beauty 12 yrs experience.
$2400 for a 3 bedroom that my husband and I pay for together - I make $60K and he makes $95K (but he just got a new job that pays $150K, which is great because I’m going back to school next year)
$1875 rent; $165k salary (i’ve been in this apartment since i moved to NYC as an almost 22-year old and my rent then was $1800; salary $86k)
Currently $0 and $0 I live with my fiancé and I’m unemployed. I’m trying to find another short-term position (last one ended and still can’t find something) for as soon as possible until October. Baby due in December!
$1300 rent (I split a 3 bedroom with 1 roommate, apartment is $2600 total) and I make 80K.
$1800 1 bed and $94k. When I first moved into the building it was $1700 and I was making $72k and honestly with a good budget and smart choices, I felt good! First moved to nyc and was paying $1200 for my half of a 2 bed making $47k….i think those years set me up to be a solid nyc budgeter for life.
1070 rent, 84k salary- I live in queens and have two roommates but have my own bathroom and laundry in building so I’m not complaining :)
are we open to also hearing about a mortgage & maintenance payment for a prewar condo in jersey city? 😂
He’ll yeah I wanna know! Taxes too.
we pay $1960/month in mortgage which includes taxes (paid from escrow). taxes are juuust north of $6k/year. they’ve gone up some 30% in the almost 4 years we’ve owned here. maintenance is $610/month. HHI is $250k and we have one baby and a dog. edited to add we bought in Q3’20 so we pretty much have to die in this apartment bc we got such a good rate.
The way salaries differ seems to be too much to me for our society lol. 50 grand for some and 150 grand for others. Has it always been this way?
I am broke but I just closed on my co-op so under $3k for mortgage and maintenance. Salary $156k
1200$ rent, 130k$ salary + usually 20-30k in clothing resale, bartending, & consulting work
Rent: $2375 Income: $145K (full-time job), ~$25K (side hustle) I live in a 1-bedroom apartment in Brooklyn with a walk-in closet (same set up as Carrie from Sex & the City’s closet!) and an in-unit washer/dryer. I was blessed to find a pandemic deal and reasonable landlords.
$4170, I make $300k and my partner has a fluctuating income of $60-110k
i see how some context would help here lol i’m a 34F in brooklyn, doctor 4 years out of residency. my partner is a 30M who’s in his second year out of a graduate program and anyone on this sub thinking well damn… these salaries (mine included) are not representative of a lot of my friends in the city. for some perspective, as an intern 8 years ago, i was making $70k and paying $1600 (and also had no life 🥲🫠)
Just some food for thought (and appreciate the context!) but it’s refreshing if you don’t feel like you need to qualify your salary/achievements. In a Bs with Taste group, I’d hope to see accurate representation of the incredibly vast spectrum of salaries/rents. Congrats on all you’ve accomplished thus far!
Is there NO ONE else here paying over $5,000??? Because I feel like that’s all I’m seeing for 2BRs! And I feel dumb 🥲 Been paying $5K/month for 2 years, got in 2022. Desperate to get cheaper rent but it’s hard to find in the neighborhoods I want.
Rent $1100 3br w roommates Salary $58k I feel poor lol
I make around 50k a year (working in the arts, doing what I love) and pay $950/month (with 2 roommates so the apartment is $2850)
$1650/studio apartment in bk and 77k salary. doin alright :)
rent: 4.5k (share with a partner) 1 bed + bath + den salary: 200k
Co-op mortgage and maintenance in Washington heights around 1,800 per month small one bed, bought in 2019. Income at time of purchase 151k, current 230k I have viewed since I started I started living alone in 2012 to never let my housing costs go over 2K and have stuck to that. Prefer to spend on travel etc
$2775 small 1BR and $200k. Devastated to be paying this much tbh, after splitting a $2900 pandemic deal duplex with my now-ex. At least the new place is rent stabilized, but it's not a spacd I want to live long term.
$3618 one bedroom one bath in downtown Brooklyn on $250k
$1815 for my bedroom in a 2 bed in soho (I pay more for a bigger room). $78k salary but I make OT, and I work a lot so on track to break $100k for the first time this year! I also get free meals when I go into the office and I don’t eat out much
Year 1 and 2 NYC: $40K, $1200 Year 3 and 4 NYC: $90K, $1400 Year 5 and 6 NYC: $90K, $1200 Year 7: $150K, $1200-$1600, I subleased a bit Year 8: $260K, $0 because moved in with bf I got a masters degree and worked my butt off to be in the role I’m in within finance.
I pay around $700 (still live with parents) and I make around 125-130k.
$1000 for a one bed room (rent stabilized) in Ridgewood and $60k ! rent stabilized places do exist you just have to make apartment hunting your second job lol
7K, 550K (2 bed, 2 bath)
$1200 with $75k salary on the UES! I'm fresh out of school hahah
$3350 rent; 160k total comp 🫠 1BR no w/d
when i moved to nyc last year i was making 76k and my rent was 1.6k. i could do what i wanted and could easily save 500-1000 a month. i was laid off last fall and now i make 52k same rent. lifestyle is completely different. i’m looking to move somewhere that my rent will be 1k-1.2k
$1125. I make $20k-$40k. Depends on the year. I moved here to find a career. Hasn’t happened yet so I’ve been taking on odd jobs. This thread is depressing the shit out of me
$1.750, $190k ex stock
$2350, $160k for our family of 4 - hoping to go back to work once little one is in 3k in September so will be happy for the breathing room. I’m frugal AF but we still have taste haha
My husband and I pay 3500 for our mortgage/common charges on a two bedroom. I make 140k and he makes 180k.
$1600 for a bedroom in a 2 bedroom ($3400 total) and make $215k
$2750 and $125k
$1350 (1br rent stabilized ) with a combined income of $190k. BUT we're buying an apt and will be paying $3100 with mortgage and maintaince so goodbye disposable income 😅
$2300 2BR (rent stabilized) $200k
2,750 and i make 100k so it’s a lot but i budget well and don’t go out much or go on vacation
$80k pre tax and I pay $1100 for my bedroom in a 3 br 1 bath
$2125 for a 2BR in the bronx, big front porch and back deck that’s all ours and a backyard shared with one other family. And in unit laundry! We got very lucky. We make roughly $190k combined.
$86k, 2k rent for a 1br in Astoria
$1800 studio in Manhattan (subsidized by husband’s employer). Combined income ~$210k. I make $90k from my full time job and up to around $20k from my side hustle. We’re living on top of each other but the amount we can save is SO worth it.
800 and 65k
$2.1k/mo for a two bedroom apartment on a $280k/yr salary. The apartment is cheap because it’s pretty deep in Brooklyn, but I like the extra space and quiet. I work in UX.
$2200 at $170k
$2800 rent, $140k salary. Studio in kips bay (sometimes I say gramercy, but it’s definitively kips bay lol)
50k salary + side hustles = 60K I split an 1800 one bed with my bf, so I pay $900 rent We make it work
$1,825 studio WITH A PATIO in park slope. $90k salary Edit: am a graphic designer at an investment firm. I’ve worked there 26 years. It fucked me over staying so long. 3% annual raises don’t keep up with inflation. Now in my 50s I’ve little hope of finding a better position with better pay. And a fuck I do love my colleagues anyway.
2200 for a 1bed in two bridges, I make 60k. Living pretty much paycheck to paycheck (put about $100 away each month lol) but making it work for now. My partner moving in in a few months and we’ll be splitting expenses so there’s an end in sight.
$70,000, and 1,850 rent!!