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

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amber useless brakes point
  12/18/25
710K
Cerise Area Stock Car
  12/18/25
lawyer?
amber useless brakes point
  12/18/25
yea
Cerise Area Stock Car
  12/18/25
Biglaw?
amber useless brakes point
  12/18/25
Me: 842k Wife: 267K Including last year's bonus
Thriller Indigo Hairy Legs
  12/18/25
Lawyers?
puce tripping fanboi
  12/18/25
My wife is in-house and I lie on the internet
Thriller Indigo Hairy Legs
  12/18/25
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cruel-hearted potus pit
  12/18/25
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Swashbuckling Genital Piercing
  12/19/25
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Carnelian address internal respiration
  12/19/25
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Brindle depressive
  12/19/25
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Multi-colored mauve theater stage crotch
  12/20/25
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Trip Erotic Place Of Business Blood Rage
  12/21/25
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Embarrassed to the bone outnumbered selfie parlor
  12/21/25
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Appetizing brunch headpube
  12/21/25
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opaque jap
  12/22/25
$350kish, maybe more depending on how collections come in ov...
learning disabled community account
  12/18/25
Trash or legal fees?
amber useless brakes point
  12/18/25
Picking up trash would be much more dignified
learning disabled community account
  12/18/25
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Swashbuckling Genital Piercing
  12/19/25
$130k in shitlaw
Irate Lay
  12/18/25
as a solo? associate? paralegal?
vermilion awkward puppy
  12/18/25
AssociaTTTe
Irate Lay
  12/18/25
why dont you go solo?
amber useless brakes point
  12/18/25
I thought shitlawyers made $60K in MFH
stimulating institution associate
  12/19/25
Nigger voicemail$
Irate Lay
  12/19/25
A little over $300k as an in house fag. I'm pathetic and poo...
high-end stain property
  12/18/25
When I was a young Inhousemo making $250k, I thought I was t...
high-end stain property
  12/18/25
To be fair, I had a 180 billion lifestyle in my late 20s and...
high-end stain property
  12/18/25
you should've lateraled to $750k 10-2 100% wfh in house ages...
bonkers spot
  12/18/25
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Cerise Area Stock Car
  12/18/25
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Violent lime telephone pisswyrm
  12/19/25
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Shaky Sable Turdskin
  12/21/25
In house is the exit option. There are no exist options from...
Swashbuckling Genital Piercing
  12/19/25
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heady shivering ticket booth
  12/19/25
Why is $300k paycheck to paycheck?
Curious shrine
  12/19/25
Over $400k if you add wife. After tax income: ~200k H...
high-end stain property
  12/19/25
You are doing better than paycheck to paycheck.
Curious shrine
  12/19/25
you are retarded or lying because 400k with a family is not...
carmine tanning salon weed whacker
  12/20/25
I had half my income withheld for taxes. I asked what the fu...
Curious shrine
  12/21/25
286k so far. Prob will make another 15k. Wife 86k
Harsh wild fat ankles
  12/18/25
Does wife's post-tax salary cover the costs of childcare and...
Swashbuckling Genital Piercing
  12/19/25
PATRIARCHY!!! Of course it doesn’t.
Vigorous aqua dilemma
  12/19/25
Oh. So why does she work?
Swashbuckling Genital Piercing
  12/19/25
180k. worst year in total comp since pre covid
fighting nibblets public bath
  12/18/25
don't you brag about being rich?
Violent lime telephone pisswyrm
  12/19/25
sorry to hear it but props for your candor in a thread full ...
Bateful stead
  12/19/25
me: ~$400k wife: ~$325k but i was also laid off
Metal stage
  12/18/25
if u want chandler to slap u with his dick just say so
bonkers spot
  12/18/25
Very gauche to discuss. Any white people left on here?
Bat-shit-crazy field
  12/18/25
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Crystalline beady-eyed orchestra pit
  12/18/25
$790K. Wife made about $15K.
Curious shrine
  12/18/25
Doing what, and why?
amber useless brakes point
  12/18/25
I am atty.
Curious shrine
  12/18/25
I know that, I meant your wife
amber useless brakes point
  12/18/25
He's an attorney. What's so complicated?
high-end stain property
  12/18/25
I understand that he's an attorney
bronze foreskin
  12/19/25
I understand that he's an attorney
bronze foreskin
  12/19/25
I understand that he's an attorney
Copper Cowardly Jew
  12/21/25
He's an attorney. What's so complicated?
coral police squad chapel
  12/23/25
I understand that he's an attorney
bronze foreskin
  12/23/25
Over 50k. Plus I got a $150 honorarium for a talk earlier th...
claret whorehouse regret
  12/18/25
I'd love to get an honorarium one day. Very prestigious.
Swashbuckling Genital Piercing
  12/19/25
yup, I'd love to get an honorarium one day. Very prestigious...
Copper Cowardly Jew
  12/21/25
You joke, but I'm unironically proud of my meagre token of p...
claret whorehouse regret
  12/21/25
I felt the same when I won a $100 poetry prize. In college. ...
Curious shrine
  12/22/25
Lashing out because the board writ large is mocking you for ...
claret whorehouse regret
  12/22/25
? Largely? It’s five unmarried childless losers pissed...
Curious shrine
  12/22/25
I was making fun of honaria. Whatever happened to him?
Copper Cowardly Jew
  12/22/25
lol I make more money than lex tp
Trip Erotic Place Of Business Blood Rage
  12/21/25
Monkey driving a golf cart makes more money than that guy
Curious shrine
  12/21/25
I feel safe in this subthread
Idiotic death wish
  12/22/25
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Idiotic death wish
  12/22/25
lex how’s your dating life? jw
Idiotic death wish
  12/22/25
I only respond to such queries in old fashioned SUMMON: thre...
claret whorehouse regret
  12/22/25
why are u dorks including ur wives' earnings
bonkers spot
  12/18/25
Same reason why they included what their wives harvested in ...
Crystalline beady-eyed orchestra pit
  12/18/25
i don't even know whether my wife has a job
bonkers spot
  12/18/25
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Brindle depressive
  12/19/25
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Swashbuckling Genital Piercing
  12/19/25
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Idiotic death wish
  12/22/25
not enough.
Violent lime telephone pisswyrm
  12/18/25
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soggy base nowag
  12/20/25
little under $6M
hairless arousing messiness
  12/18/25
MFCR. State occupation, thank.
high-end stain property
  12/18/25
271K TOPS
Thriller Indigo Hairy Legs
  12/18/25
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Hilarious tank principal's office
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fighting nibblets public bath
  12/18/25
sorry ur mad
hairless arousing messiness
  12/19/25
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Spectacular Navy Menage Coldplay Fan
  12/20/25
Six figures, champ.
low-t mental disorder
  12/18/25
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cruel-hearted potus pit
  12/18/25
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Violent lime telephone pisswyrm
  12/18/25
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Transparent laughsome market quadroon
  12/20/25
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Appetizing brunch headpube
  12/21/25
-$184K
Concupiscible Lodge Reading Party
  12/18/25
I fail to see how this is relevant.
Glittery Unholy Locale
  12/18/25
Pre tax or post tax? Including expected tax credits, debits,...
ruddy electric furnace indian lodge
  12/18/25
holy fuck how jewish are you
Carnelian address internal respiration
  12/19/25
low-200s
lascivious henna striped hyena casino
  12/18/25
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Razzle magenta school
  12/18/25
like 2 million
silver exhilarant water buffalo cumskin
  12/18/25
$360k in tech
Red Balding Volcanic Crater Pocket Flask
  12/19/25
Less than I want but way more than I deserve
Stubborn theater
  12/19/25
I value my wife’s admiration over tax advantages. The...
Lemon self-centered mediation black woman
  12/19/25
Shrew'd
Stubborn theater
  12/19/25
lol @ this flame. Women only care about what you can buy th...
opaque jap
  12/19/25
She sees the tax return but not the brokerage statement. Sh...
Lemon self-centered mediation black woman
  12/19/25
(guy playing the long game) at the same time, this is the s...
Bateful stead
  12/19/25
thank you
Lemon self-centered mediation black woman
  12/19/25
I mean, don't rule anything out, there's something to be sai...
Crimson forum dingle berry
  12/19/25
Who wants to pay off my house
galvanic hunting ground sweet tailpipe
  12/19/25
negative money (lived off debt)
Ebony Station Idiot
  12/19/25
~250, not bad but half as much as last year. :(
apoplectic kitchen double fault
  12/19/25
what happened
Carnelian address internal respiration
  12/19/25
i made a bunch of money off of JMIA last year. ironically if...
apoplectic kitchen double fault
  12/19/25
if there's one thing I've learned as a solo it's that annual...
Brindle depressive
  12/19/25
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amber useless brakes point
  12/19/25
Around 1.7 which is what I made last year. I'm starting to t...
boyish locus gunner
  12/19/25
$600k as solo lolyer.
heady shivering ticket booth
  12/19/25
Closer to a tenth of that for me. Nasty health problem decim...
fantasy-prone cheese-eating church therapy
  12/20/25
~$900k
Vigorous aqua dilemma
  12/19/25
Paying tax on about $600K, but zero earned income.
geriatric yellow faggotry
  12/19/25
Wow.
soggy base nowag
  12/19/25
Let me know what I can do to earn about $20k from you.
Violent lime telephone pisswyrm
  12/19/25
How many blowjobs can I get for that?
geriatric yellow faggotry
  12/19/25
well my regular price is $20 per nut but since you're buying...
Violent lime telephone pisswyrm
  12/19/25
That 1/3 sounds disappointing.
geriatric yellow faggotry
  12/19/25
lol
hideous library
  12/19/25
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Violent lime telephone pisswyrm
  12/22/25
you guys are a bunch of studs, i'm in the 20th decile or so ...
Bateful stead
  12/19/25
the only threads on XO more full of shit than income threads...
maniacal heaven ape
  12/19/25
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Bateful stead
  12/19/25
I can do 12 full-extension, 13 with a bit of english on the ...
coral police squad chapel
  12/19/25
Lol rfk did 20pullups on video.
Orange windowlicker parlour
  12/19/25
if i used the same form and ROM as him i could crank off lik...
salmon out-of-control gaming laptop
  12/19/25
Try actually doing pull-ups. You will not get much more by s...
Orange windowlicker parlour
  12/20/25
LOL boor, his form was trash. controlled full ROM pullups fr...
maniacal heaven ape
  12/21/25
You sound poor
opaque jap
  12/19/25
but self-selection...
Transparent laughsome market quadroon
  12/20/25
I dunno, like 10-15x the American average and also not nearl...
zombie-like school cafeteria haunted graveyard
  12/19/25
XO to young poasters, " Do NOT go to law school!" ...
Gold step-uncle's house ceo
  12/19/25
Survivor bias. The people from my class who didn’t sur...
zombie-like school cafeteria haunted graveyard
  12/19/25
Soo cr. Maybe half of the dudes I know about are still lawye...
Stubborn theater
  12/20/25
It would be fascinating to see some actual ROI data on law s...
zombie-like school cafeteria haunted graveyard
  12/20/25
back in the day standard advice was only go to ls if you're ...
Cerise Area Stock Car
  12/20/25
Only once ITE hit. Before that, Gen Xers sleepwalked off a c...
Idiotic death wish
  12/20/25
TITCR. The Bill Henderson “Bi-modal distribution of st...
zombie-like school cafeteria haunted graveyard
  12/20/25
this is correct. I started with 26 people in my summer c...
hairless arousing messiness
  12/20/25
amazing how XO gets the top 1% of lawyers to poast here
Gold step-uncle's house ceo
  12/20/25
The personality that really likes it here actually thrives i...
soggy base nowag
  12/20/25
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amber useless brakes point
  12/20/25
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Cerise Area Stock Car
  12/20/25
$160k. The same I made as a first year. Good thing there&r...
Multi-colored mauve theater stage crotch
  12/19/25
I paid just under that in taxes this year
Red Balding Volcanic Crater Pocket Flask
  12/20/25
somewhere around $220k pre-bonus. bonus will likely be shit ...
Cocky people who are hurt national security agency
  12/20/25
this number includes all income, not just wagecucking.
Cocky people who are hurt national security agency
  12/20/25
actually it might be closer to $240k. idfk i don't keep clos...
Cocky people who are hurt national security agency
  12/20/25
A little over a mil. “Worked” ~10 hours a week. ...
Electric cream senate
  12/20/25
How do you get your taxable income lower?
fluffy aggressive stag film knife
  12/20/25
Bought a car (100% depreciation) Pay myself rent -- I own ...
Electric cream senate
  12/20/25
Creative but nothing fraud tp
amber useless brakes point
  12/20/25
Tell more about paralegal. How does she bring in cases?
Curious shrine
  12/21/25
Just by being likeable and talking to people and knowing wha...
Electric cream senate
  12/21/25
...
Curious shrine
  12/21/25
About 1mil , I wagecucked a lot and this is my ceiling. Anyo...
Orange windowlicker parlour
  12/20/25
425k in a litigation boutique as a non-equity “partner...
carmine tanning salon weed whacker
  12/20/25
still waiting for bonus which will be 30% of my comp
Smoky provocative brethren french chef
  12/21/25
it's likely going to be around $580k this year. i started th...
Copper Cowardly Jew
  12/21/25
That’s good. Do you have to leave a bunch of money in?...
Curious shrine
  12/21/25
at the prior firm, i bought in like $20k worth of shares. th...
Copper Cowardly Jew
  12/21/25
We just work hard all year then deduct costs from fees earne...
Curious shrine
  12/22/25
Looks like I peaked in 2023 at $500k and I've been earning l...
amber useless brakes point
  12/21/25
it's surprising to me bc i used to not give a fuck about the...
Copper Cowardly Jew
  12/21/25
are you hiring? can you mentor me? i really enjoyed ur saltw...
amber useless brakes point
  12/21/25
if i could, i would man. are you open to learning traditiona...
Copper Cowardly Jew
  12/21/25
i dont think i wanna learn that. do you think i can bottom f...
amber useless brakes point
  12/21/25
yes but i am not sure what i can pay u. can i finish in ur a...
Copper Cowardly Jew
  12/21/25
are you still pozzed?
amber useless brakes point
  12/21/25
undetectable brother
Copper Cowardly Jew
  12/21/25
i guess you can finish in my ass. $50 if u can host
amber useless brakes point
  12/21/25
wow this is hot, let's take this off boart
Copper Cowardly Jew
  12/21/25
$595k (which is like $390k after taxes)
Chocolate Prole Ladyboy
  12/21/25
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Embarrassed to the bone outnumbered selfie parlor
  12/21/25
Should be $1.036m with rents and assuming the lab business c...
comical trailer park
  12/21/25
600-800k in tech depending on stock price, haven’t rea...
Irradiated partner stage
  12/21/25
180 last note
claret whorehouse regret
  12/22/25
About 1.3 mil. Shitlaw boss, real estate investing and othe...
fluffy aggressive stag film knife
  12/21/25
that is 180, very impressive. very unlikely everything wi...
Copper Cowardly Jew
  12/21/25
I think he has posted about her before. He’s doing a ...
Curious shrine
  12/21/25
i can't advocate for doing that, but that's just me. nobody ...
Copper Cowardly Jew
  12/21/25
just do discreet affairs bro
vermilion awkward puppy
  12/21/25
Lol at all the poasters counting unrealized investment gains...
fluffy aggressive stag film knife
  12/24/25
I wouldn’t include it in my headline number but I do t...
jet-lagged state halford
  12/26/25
CSLG free thread. Odd case.
Cerebral green scourge upon the earth
  12/22/25
Great q. Most in-housemos have no idea since most won't kno...
Appetizing brunch headpube
  12/22/25
count any bonus you received in calendar 2025
Cerise Area Stock Car
  12/23/25
I just started new job. Finished last shift of nights at 5am...
Orange windowlicker parlour
  12/22/25
About $310k in W2/1099, $50k in rental profit, and I think $...
jet-lagged state halford
  12/22/25
Up $415,290. W2 wages are about 65% of that.
soggy base nowag
  12/22/25
whats the other 35%
Cerise Area Stock Car
  12/23/25
cap gains
coral police squad chapel
  12/25/25
are we counting cap gains in what we made this year? id need...
Cerise Area Stock Car
  12/25/25
I'm up like $440k now on the year.
soggy base nowag
  12/25/25
~$500k
Smoky provocative brethren french chef
  12/25/25


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Date: December 18th, 2025 3:47 PM
Author: amber useless brakes point



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Date: December 18th, 2025 3:48 PM
Author: Cerise Area Stock Car

710K

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Date: December 18th, 2025 3:50 PM
Author: amber useless brakes point

lawyer?

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Date: December 18th, 2025 3:54 PM
Author: Cerise Area Stock Car

yea

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Date: December 18th, 2025 3:55 PM
Author: amber useless brakes point

Biglaw?

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Date: December 18th, 2025 3:51 PM
Author: Thriller Indigo Hairy Legs

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: puce tripping fanboi

Lawyers?

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Date: December 18th, 2025 6:07 PM
Author: Thriller Indigo Hairy Legs

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

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Date: December 18th, 2025 6:07 PM
Author: cruel-hearted potus pit



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Date: December 19th, 2025 10:23 AM
Author: Swashbuckling Genital Piercing



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Date: December 19th, 2025 11:16 AM
Author: Carnelian address internal respiration



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Date: December 19th, 2025 11:19 AM
Author: Brindle depressive



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Date: December 20th, 2025 9:01 AM
Author: Multi-colored mauve theater stage crotch



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Date: December 21st, 2025 5:33 PM
Author: Trip Erotic Place Of Business Blood Rage



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Date: December 21st, 2025 5:53 PM
Author: Embarrassed to the bone outnumbered selfie parlor



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Date: December 21st, 2025 6:28 PM
Author: Appetizing brunch headpube



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Date: December 22nd, 2025 5:50 PM
Author: opaque jap



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Date: December 18th, 2025 3:55 PM
Author: learning disabled community account

$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: amber useless brakes point

Trash or legal fees?

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Date: December 18th, 2025 4:58 PM
Author: learning disabled community account

Picking up trash would be much more dignified

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Date: December 19th, 2025 10:23 AM
Author: Swashbuckling Genital Piercing



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Date: December 18th, 2025 3:56 PM
Author: Irate Lay

$130k in shitlaw

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5811768&forum_id=2:#49519936)



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Date: December 18th, 2025 3:57 PM
Author: vermilion awkward puppy

as a solo? associate? paralegal?

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Date: December 18th, 2025 4:35 PM
Author: Irate Lay

AssociaTTTe

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Date: December 18th, 2025 4:35 PM
Author: amber useless brakes point

why dont you go solo?

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Date: December 19th, 2025 12:20 PM
Author: stimulating institution associate

I thought shitlawyers made $60K in MFH

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Date: December 19th, 2025 8:41 PM
Author: Irate Lay

Nigger voicemail$

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Date: December 18th, 2025 4:00 PM
Author: high-end stain property

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: high-end stain property

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: high-end stain property

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: bonkers spot

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: Cerise Area Stock Car



(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: Violent lime telephone pisswyrm



(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: Shaky Sable Turdskin



(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: Swashbuckling Genital Piercing

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: heady shivering ticket booth



(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: Curious shrine

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: high-end stain property

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: Curious shrine

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: carmine tanning salon weed whacker

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: Curious shrine

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: Harsh wild fat ankles

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: Swashbuckling Genital Piercing

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: Vigorous aqua dilemma

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: Swashbuckling Genital Piercing

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: fighting nibblets public bath

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: Violent lime telephone pisswyrm

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: Bateful stead

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: Metal stage

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: bonkers spot

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: Bat-shit-crazy field

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: Crystalline beady-eyed orchestra pit



(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: Curious shrine

$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: amber useless brakes point

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: Curious shrine

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: amber useless brakes point

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: high-end stain property

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: bronze foreskin

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: bronze foreskin

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: Copper Cowardly Jew

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: coral police squad chapel

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: bronze foreskin

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: claret whorehouse regret

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: Swashbuckling Genital Piercing

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: Copper Cowardly Jew

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: claret whorehouse regret

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: Curious shrine

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: claret whorehouse regret

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: Curious shrine

? 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: Copper Cowardly Jew

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: Trip Erotic Place Of Business Blood Rage

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: Curious shrine

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: Idiotic death wish

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: Idiotic death wish



(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: Idiotic death wish

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: claret whorehouse regret

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: bonkers spot

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: Crystalline beady-eyed orchestra pit

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: bonkers spot

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: Brindle depressive



(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: Swashbuckling Genital Piercing



(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: Idiotic death wish



(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: Violent lime telephone pisswyrm

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: soggy base nowag



(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: hairless arousing messiness

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: high-end stain property

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: Thriller Indigo Hairy Legs

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: Hilarious tank principal's office



(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: fighting nibblets public bath



(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: hairless arousing messiness

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: Spectacular Navy Menage Coldplay Fan



(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: low-t mental disorder

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: cruel-hearted potus pit



(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: Violent lime telephone pisswyrm



(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: Transparent laughsome market quadroon



(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: Appetizing brunch headpube



(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: Concupiscible Lodge Reading Party

-$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: Glittery Unholy Locale

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: ruddy electric furnace indian lodge

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: Carnelian address internal respiration

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: lascivious henna striped hyena casino

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: Razzle magenta school



(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: silver exhilarant water buffalo cumskin

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: Red Balding Volcanic Crater Pocket Flask

$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: Stubborn theater

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: Lemon self-centered mediation black woman

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: Stubborn theater

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: opaque jap

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: Lemon self-centered mediation black woman

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: Bateful stead

(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: Lemon self-centered mediation black woman

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: Crimson forum dingle berry

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: galvanic hunting ground sweet tailpipe

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: Ebony Station Idiot

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: apoplectic kitchen double fault

~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: Carnelian address internal respiration

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: apoplectic kitchen double fault

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: Brindle depressive

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: amber useless brakes point



(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: boyish locus gunner

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: heady shivering ticket booth

$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: fantasy-prone cheese-eating church therapy

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: Vigorous aqua dilemma

~$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: geriatric yellow faggotry

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: soggy base nowag

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: Violent lime telephone pisswyrm

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: geriatric yellow faggotry

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: Violent lime telephone pisswyrm

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: geriatric yellow faggotry

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: hideous library

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: Violent lime telephone pisswyrm



(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: Bateful stead

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: maniacal heaven ape

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: Bateful stead



(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: coral police squad chapel

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: Orange windowlicker parlour

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: salmon out-of-control gaming laptop

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: Orange windowlicker parlour

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: maniacal heaven ape

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: opaque jap

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: Transparent laughsome market quadroon

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: zombie-like school cafeteria haunted graveyard

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: Gold step-uncle's house ceo

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: zombie-like school cafeteria haunted graveyard

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: Stubborn theater

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: zombie-like school cafeteria haunted graveyard

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: Cerise Area Stock Car

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: Idiotic death wish

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: zombie-like school cafeteria haunted graveyard

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: hairless arousing messiness

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: Gold step-uncle's house ceo

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: soggy base nowag

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: amber useless brakes point



(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: Cerise Area Stock Car



(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: Multi-colored mauve theater stage crotch

$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: Red Balding Volcanic Crater Pocket Flask

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: Cocky people who are hurt national security agency

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: Cocky people who are hurt national security agency

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: Cocky people who are hurt national security agency

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: Electric cream senate

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: fluffy aggressive stag film knife

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: Electric cream senate

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: amber useless brakes point

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: Curious shrine

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: Electric cream senate

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: Curious shrine



(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: Orange windowlicker parlour

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: carmine tanning salon weed whacker

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: Smoky provocative brethren french chef

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: Copper Cowardly Jew

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: Curious shrine

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: Copper Cowardly Jew

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: Curious shrine

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: amber useless brakes point

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: Copper Cowardly Jew

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: amber useless brakes point

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: Copper Cowardly Jew

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: amber useless brakes point

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: Copper Cowardly Jew

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: amber useless brakes point

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: Copper Cowardly Jew

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: amber useless brakes point

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: Copper Cowardly Jew

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: Chocolate Prole Ladyboy

$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: Embarrassed to the bone outnumbered selfie parlor



(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: comical trailer park

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: Irradiated partner stage

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: claret whorehouse regret

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: fluffy aggressive stag film knife

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: Copper Cowardly Jew

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: Curious shrine

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: Copper Cowardly Jew

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: vermilion awkward puppy

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: fluffy aggressive stag film knife

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: jet-lagged state halford

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: Cerebral green scourge upon the earth

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: Appetizing brunch headpube

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: Cerise Area Stock Car

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: Orange windowlicker parlour

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: jet-lagged state halford

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: soggy base nowag

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: Cerise Area Stock Car

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: coral police squad chapel

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: Cerise Area Stock Car

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: soggy base nowag

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: Smoky provocative brethren french chef

~$500k

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