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

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Beta vibrant associate
  12/18/25
710K
fuchsia space quadroon
  12/18/25
lawyer?
Beta vibrant associate
  12/18/25
yea
fuchsia space quadroon
  12/18/25
Biglaw?
Beta vibrant associate
  12/18/25
Me: 842k Wife: 267K Including last year's bonus
swollen milk casino
  12/18/25
Lawyers?
iridescent aphrodisiac legend
  12/18/25
My wife is in-house and I lie on the internet
swollen milk casino
  12/18/25
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Anal appetizing scourge upon the earth
  12/18/25
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Big-titted bawdyhouse sandwich
  12/19/25
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Provocative Den
  12/19/25
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Adventurous copper antidepressant drug
  12/19/25
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Wonderful Laser Beams Stage
  12/20/25
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Thriller nursing home
  12/21/25
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Trip spot main people
  12/21/25
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violent love of her life
  12/21/25
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Know-it-all Location
  12/22/25
$350kish, maybe more depending on how collections come in ov...
Twinkling lettuce
  12/18/25
Trash or legal fees?
Beta vibrant associate
  12/18/25
Picking up trash would be much more dignified
Twinkling lettuce
  12/18/25
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Big-titted bawdyhouse sandwich
  12/19/25
$130k in shitlaw
Silver Field
  12/18/25
as a solo? associate? paralegal?
bull headed set cuck
  12/18/25
AssociaTTTe
Silver Field
  12/18/25
why dont you go solo?
Beta vibrant associate
  12/18/25
I thought shitlawyers made $60K in MFH
judgmental racy pistol ratface
  12/19/25
Nigger voicemail$
Silver Field
  12/19/25
A little over $300k as an in house fag. I'm pathetic and poo...
vengeful corner persian
  12/18/25
When I was a young Inhousemo making $250k, I thought I was t...
vengeful corner persian
  12/18/25
To be fair, I had a 180 billion lifestyle in my late 20s and...
vengeful corner persian
  12/18/25
you should've lateraled to $750k 10-2 100% wfh in house ages...
Hairraiser amber internal respiration
  12/18/25
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fuchsia space quadroon
  12/18/25
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Odious stead
  12/19/25
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dull state queen of the night
  12/21/25
In house is the exit option. There are no exist options from...
Big-titted bawdyhouse sandwich
  12/19/25
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Irradiated magenta giraffe hospital
  12/19/25
Why is $300k paycheck to paycheck?
heady university coldplay fan
  12/19/25
Over $400k if you add wife. After tax income: ~200k H...
vengeful corner persian
  12/19/25
You are doing better than paycheck to paycheck.
heady university coldplay fan
  12/19/25
you are retarded or lying because 400k with a family is not...
dashing feces rehab
  12/20/25
I had half my income withheld for taxes. I asked what the fu...
heady university coldplay fan
  12/21/25
286k so far. Prob will make another 15k. Wife 86k
Pea-brained Angry Church
  12/18/25
Does wife's post-tax salary cover the costs of childcare and...
Big-titted bawdyhouse sandwich
  12/19/25
PATRIARCHY!!! Of course it doesn’t.
Cerise gay wizard resort
  12/19/25
Oh. So why does she work?
Big-titted bawdyhouse sandwich
  12/19/25
180k. worst year in total comp since pre covid
Drab mad cow disease
  12/18/25
don't you brag about being rich?
Odious stead
  12/19/25
sorry to hear it but props for your candor in a thread full ...
Spectacular Indigo Tattoo
  12/19/25
me: ~$400k wife: ~$325k but i was also laid off
Slate Trust Fund Goal In Life
  12/18/25
if u want chandler to slap u with his dick just say so
Hairraiser amber internal respiration
  12/18/25
Very gauche to discuss. Any white people left on here?
cheese-eating abusive temple
  12/18/25
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outnumbered stag film goyim
  12/18/25
$790K. Wife made about $15K.
heady university coldplay fan
  12/18/25
Doing what, and why?
Beta vibrant associate
  12/18/25
I am atty.
heady university coldplay fan
  12/18/25
I know that, I meant your wife
Beta vibrant associate
  12/18/25
He's an attorney. What's so complicated?
vengeful corner persian
  12/18/25
I understand that he's an attorney
Well-lubricated emerald box office
  12/19/25
I understand that he's an attorney
Well-lubricated emerald box office
  12/19/25
I understand that he's an attorney
low-t people who are hurt
  12/21/25
He's an attorney. What's so complicated?
Comical Zombie-like Newt Site
  12/23/25
I understand that he's an attorney
Well-lubricated emerald box office
  12/23/25
Over 50k. Plus I got a $150 honorarium for a talk earlier th...
Ebony hell gaming laptop
  12/18/25
I'd love to get an honorarium one day. Very prestigious.
Big-titted bawdyhouse sandwich
  12/19/25
yup, I'd love to get an honorarium one day. Very prestigious...
low-t people who are hurt
  12/21/25
You joke, but I'm unironically proud of my meagre token of p...
Ebony hell gaming laptop
  12/21/25
I felt the same when I won a $100 poetry prize. In college. ...
heady university coldplay fan
  12/22/25
Lashing out because the board writ large is mocking you for ...
Ebony hell gaming laptop
  12/22/25
? Largely? It’s five unmarried childless losers pissed...
heady university coldplay fan
  12/22/25
I was making fun of honaria. Whatever happened to him?
low-t people who are hurt
  12/22/25
lol I make more money than lex tp
Thriller nursing home
  12/21/25
Monkey driving a golf cart makes more money than that guy
heady university coldplay fan
  12/21/25
I feel safe in this subthread
mind-boggling parlor turdskin
  12/22/25
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mind-boggling parlor turdskin
  12/22/25
lex how’s your dating life? jw
mind-boggling parlor turdskin
  12/22/25
I only respond to such queries in old fashioned SUMMON: thre...
Ebony hell gaming laptop
  12/22/25
why are u dorks including ur wives' earnings
Hairraiser amber internal respiration
  12/18/25
Same reason why they included what their wives harvested in ...
outnumbered stag film goyim
  12/18/25
i don't even know whether my wife has a job
Hairraiser amber internal respiration
  12/18/25
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Adventurous copper antidepressant drug
  12/19/25
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Big-titted bawdyhouse sandwich
  12/19/25
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mind-boggling parlor turdskin
  12/22/25
not enough.
Odious stead
  12/18/25
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pale ceo
  12/20/25
little under $6M
Marvelous Karate Sound Barrier
  12/18/25
MFCR. State occupation, thank.
vengeful corner persian
  12/18/25
271K TOPS
swollen milk casino
  12/18/25
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massive son of senegal dopamine
  12/18/25
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Drab mad cow disease
  12/18/25
sorry ur mad
Marvelous Karate Sound Barrier
  12/19/25
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Free-loading curious cruise ship old irish cottage
  12/20/25
Six figures, champ.
disgusting electric theatre
  12/18/25
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Anal appetizing scourge upon the earth
  12/18/25
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Odious stead
  12/18/25
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Flirting supple elastic band
  12/20/25
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violent love of her life
  12/21/25
-$184K
Frozen place of business
  12/18/25
I fail to see how this is relevant.
Drunken ocher house candlestick maker
  12/18/25
Pre tax or post tax? Including expected tax credits, debits,...
Cerebral selfie
  12/18/25
holy fuck how jewish are you
Provocative Den
  12/19/25
low-200s
swashbuckling messiness menage
  12/18/25
0
Multi-colored violet pozpig shrine
  12/18/25
like 2 million
Saffron Histrionic New Version
  12/18/25
$360k in tech
tan sick toaster psychic
  12/19/25
Less than I want but way more than I deserve
Soul-stirring very tactful puppy
  12/19/25
I value my wife’s admiration over tax advantages. The...
boyish transparent juggernaut
  12/19/25
Shrew'd
Soul-stirring very tactful puppy
  12/19/25
lol @ this flame. Women only care about what you can buy th...
Know-it-all Location
  12/19/25
She sees the tax return but not the brokerage statement. Sh...
boyish transparent juggernaut
  12/19/25
(guy playing the long game) at the same time, this is the s...
Spectacular Indigo Tattoo
  12/19/25
thank you
boyish transparent juggernaut
  12/19/25
I mean, don't rule anything out, there's something to be sai...
Fear-inspiring wagecucks locus
  12/19/25
Who wants to pay off my house
opaque immigrant
  12/19/25
negative money (lived off debt)
Razzle underhanded whorehouse
  12/19/25
~250, not bad but half as much as last year. :(
Rambunctious Blood Rage Range
  12/19/25
what happened
Provocative Den
  12/19/25
i made a bunch of money off of JMIA last year. ironically if...
Rambunctious Blood Rage Range
  12/19/25
if there's one thing I've learned as a solo it's that annual...
Adventurous copper antidepressant drug
  12/19/25
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Beta vibrant associate
  12/19/25
Around 1.7 which is what I made last year. I'm starting to t...
Sooty jewess
  12/19/25
$600k as solo lolyer.
Irradiated magenta giraffe hospital
  12/19/25
Closer to a tenth of that for me. Nasty health problem decim...
charismatic market
  12/20/25
~$900k
Cerise gay wizard resort
  12/19/25
Paying tax on about $600K, but zero earned income.
laughsome mad-dog skullcap
  12/19/25
Wow.
pale ceo
  12/19/25
Let me know what I can do to earn about $20k from you.
Odious stead
  12/19/25
How many blowjobs can I get for that?
laughsome mad-dog skullcap
  12/19/25
well my regular price is $20 per nut but since you're buying...
Odious stead
  12/19/25
That 1/3 sounds disappointing.
laughsome mad-dog skullcap
  12/19/25
lol
domesticated roommate
  12/19/25
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Odious stead
  12/22/25
you guys are a bunch of studs, i'm in the 20th decile or so ...
Spectacular Indigo Tattoo
  12/19/25
the only threads on XO more full of shit than income threads...
Awkward abode
  12/19/25
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Spectacular Indigo Tattoo
  12/19/25
I can do 12 full-extension, 13 with a bit of english on the ...
Comical Zombie-like Newt Site
  12/19/25
Lol rfk did 20pullups on video.
Garnet legal warrant
  12/19/25
if i used the same form and ROM as him i could crank off lik...
motley learning disabled station
  12/19/25
Try actually doing pull-ups. You will not get much more by s...
Garnet legal warrant
  12/20/25
LOL boor, his form was trash. controlled full ROM pullups fr...
Awkward abode
  12/21/25
You sound poor
Know-it-all Location
  12/19/25
but self-selection...
Flirting supple elastic band
  12/20/25
I dunno, like 10-15x the American average and also not nearl...
vivacious school cafeteria
  12/19/25
XO to young poasters, " Do NOT go to law school!" ...
mentally impaired dilemma
  12/19/25
Survivor bias. The people from my class who didn’t sur...
vivacious school cafeteria
  12/19/25
Soo cr. Maybe half of the dudes I know about are still lawye...
Soul-stirring very tactful puppy
  12/20/25
It would be fascinating to see some actual ROI data on law s...
vivacious school cafeteria
  12/20/25
back in the day standard advice was only go to ls if you're ...
fuchsia space quadroon
  12/20/25
Only once ITE hit. Before that, Gen Xers sleepwalked off a c...
mind-boggling parlor turdskin
  12/20/25
TITCR. The Bill Henderson “Bi-modal distribution of st...
vivacious school cafeteria
  12/20/25
this is correct. I started with 26 people in my summer c...
Marvelous Karate Sound Barrier
  12/20/25
amazing how XO gets the top 1% of lawyers to poast here
mentally impaired dilemma
  12/20/25
The personality that really likes it here actually thrives i...
pale ceo
  12/20/25
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Beta vibrant associate
  12/20/25
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fuchsia space quadroon
  12/20/25
$160k. The same I made as a first year. Good thing there&r...
Wonderful Laser Beams Stage
  12/19/25
I paid just under that in taxes this year
tan sick toaster psychic
  12/20/25
somewhere around $220k pre-bonus. bonus will likely be shit ...
Stirring Pearly Tank
  12/20/25
this number includes all income, not just wagecucking.
Stirring Pearly Tank
  12/20/25
actually it might be closer to $240k. idfk i don't keep clos...
Stirring Pearly Tank
  12/20/25
A little over a mil. “Worked” ~10 hours a week. ...
kink-friendly unhinged friendly grandma public bath
  12/20/25
How do you get your taxable income lower?
Bat-shit-crazy school pocket flask
  12/20/25
Bought a car (100% depreciation) Pay myself rent -- I own ...
kink-friendly unhinged friendly grandma public bath
  12/20/25
Creative but nothing fraud tp
Beta vibrant associate
  12/20/25
Tell more about paralegal. How does she bring in cases?
heady university coldplay fan
  12/21/25
Just by being likeable and talking to people and knowing wha...
kink-friendly unhinged friendly grandma public bath
  12/21/25
...
heady university coldplay fan
  12/21/25
About 1mil , I wagecucked a lot and this is my ceiling. Anyo...
Garnet legal warrant
  12/20/25
425k in a litigation boutique as a non-equity “partner...
dashing feces rehab
  12/20/25
still waiting for bonus which will be 30% of my comp
exhilarant topaz ape center
  12/21/25
it's likely going to be around $580k this year. i started th...
low-t people who are hurt
  12/21/25
That’s good. Do you have to leave a bunch of money in?...
heady university coldplay fan
  12/21/25
at the prior firm, i bought in like $20k worth of shares. th...
low-t people who are hurt
  12/21/25
We just work hard all year then deduct costs from fees earne...
heady university coldplay fan
  12/22/25
Looks like I peaked in 2023 at $500k and I've been earning l...
Beta vibrant associate
  12/21/25
it's surprising to me bc i used to not give a fuck about the...
low-t people who are hurt
  12/21/25
are you hiring? can you mentor me? i really enjoyed ur saltw...
Beta vibrant associate
  12/21/25
if i could, i would man. are you open to learning traditiona...
low-t people who are hurt
  12/21/25
i dont think i wanna learn that. do you think i can bottom f...
Beta vibrant associate
  12/21/25
yes but i am not sure what i can pay u. can i finish in ur a...
low-t people who are hurt
  12/21/25
are you still pozzed?
Beta vibrant associate
  12/21/25
undetectable brother
low-t people who are hurt
  12/21/25
i guess you can finish in my ass. $50 if u can host
Beta vibrant associate
  12/21/25
wow this is hot, let's take this off boart
low-t people who are hurt
  12/21/25
$595k (which is like $390k after taxes)
Fragrant mildly autistic cuckold home
  12/21/25
...
Trip spot main people
  12/21/25
Should be $1.036m with rents and assuming the lab business c...
Glittery kitchen
  12/21/25
600-800k in tech depending on stock price, haven’t rea...
Lascivious Dragon
  12/21/25
180 last note
Ebony hell gaming laptop
  12/22/25
About 1.3 mil. Shitlaw boss, real estate investing and othe...
Bat-shit-crazy school pocket flask
  12/21/25
that is 180, very impressive. very unlikely everything wi...
low-t people who are hurt
  12/21/25
I think he has posted about her before. He’s doing a ...
heady university coldplay fan
  12/21/25
i can't advocate for doing that, but that's just me. nobody ...
low-t people who are hurt
  12/21/25
just do discreet affairs bro
bull headed set cuck
  12/21/25
Lol at all the poasters counting unrealized investment gains...
Bat-shit-crazy school pocket flask
  12/24/25
I wouldn’t include it in my headline number but I do t...
cobalt useless brakes
  12/26/25
CSLG free thread. Odd case.
chartreuse galvanic point knife
  12/22/25
Great q. Most in-housemos have no idea since most won't kno...
violent love of her life
  12/22/25
count any bonus you received in calendar 2025
fuchsia space quadroon
  12/23/25
I just started new job. Finished last shift of nights at 5am...
Garnet legal warrant
  12/22/25
About $310k in W2/1099, $50k in rental profit, and I think $...
cobalt useless brakes
  12/22/25
Up $415,290. W2 wages are about 65% of that.
pale ceo
  12/22/25
whats the other 35%
fuchsia space quadroon
  12/23/25
cap gains
Comical Zombie-like Newt Site
  12/25/25
are we counting cap gains in what we made this year? id need...
fuchsia space quadroon
  12/25/25
I'm up like $440k now on the year.
pale ceo
  12/25/25
~$500k
exhilarant topaz ape center
  12/25/25


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Date: December 18th, 2025 3:47 PM
Author: Beta vibrant associate



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5811768&forum_id=2#49519900)



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Date: December 18th, 2025 3:48 PM
Author: fuchsia space quadroon

710K

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5811768&forum_id=2#49519904)



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Date: December 18th, 2025 3:50 PM
Author: Beta vibrant associate

lawyer?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5811768&forum_id=2#49519912)



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Date: December 18th, 2025 3:54 PM
Author: fuchsia space quadroon

yea

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5811768&forum_id=2#49519925)



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Date: December 18th, 2025 3:55 PM
Author: Beta vibrant associate

Biglaw?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5811768&forum_id=2#49519931)



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Date: December 18th, 2025 3:51 PM
Author: swollen milk casino

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: iridescent aphrodisiac legend

Lawyers?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5811768&forum_id=2#49520498)



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Date: December 18th, 2025 6:07 PM
Author: swollen milk casino

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

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5811768&forum_id=2#49520499)



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Date: December 18th, 2025 6:07 PM
Author: Anal appetizing scourge upon the earth



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Date: December 19th, 2025 10:23 AM
Author: Big-titted bawdyhouse sandwich



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5811768&forum_id=2#49522136)



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Date: December 19th, 2025 11:16 AM
Author: Provocative Den



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Date: December 19th, 2025 11:19 AM
Author: Adventurous copper antidepressant drug



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Date: December 20th, 2025 9:01 AM
Author: Wonderful Laser Beams Stage



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Date: December 21st, 2025 5:33 PM
Author: Thriller nursing home



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Date: December 21st, 2025 5:53 PM
Author: Trip spot main people



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5811768&forum_id=2#49528449)



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Date: December 21st, 2025 6:28 PM
Author: violent love of her life



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5811768&forum_id=2#49528567)



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Date: December 22nd, 2025 5:50 PM
Author: Know-it-all Location



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5811768&forum_id=2#49531910)



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Date: December 18th, 2025 3:55 PM
Author: Twinkling lettuce

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

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5811768&forum_id=2#49519929)



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Date: December 18th, 2025 3:55 PM
Author: Beta vibrant associate

Trash or legal fees?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5811768&forum_id=2#49519933)



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Date: December 18th, 2025 4:58 PM
Author: Twinkling lettuce

Picking up trash would be much more dignified

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5811768&forum_id=2#49520159)



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Date: December 19th, 2025 10:23 AM
Author: Big-titted bawdyhouse sandwich



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Date: December 18th, 2025 3:56 PM
Author: Silver Field

$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: bull headed set cuck

as a solo? associate? paralegal?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5811768&forum_id=2#49519937)



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Date: December 18th, 2025 4:35 PM
Author: Silver Field

AssociaTTTe

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5811768&forum_id=2#49520075)



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Date: December 18th, 2025 4:35 PM
Author: Beta vibrant associate

why dont you go solo?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5811768&forum_id=2#49520077)



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Date: December 19th, 2025 12:20 PM
Author: judgmental racy pistol ratface

I thought shitlawyers made $60K in MFH

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5811768&forum_id=2#49522472)



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Date: December 19th, 2025 8:41 PM
Author: Silver Field

Nigger voicemail$

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5811768&forum_id=2#49523830)



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Date: December 18th, 2025 4:00 PM
Author: vengeful corner persian

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

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5811768&forum_id=2#49519948)



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Date: December 18th, 2025 5:07 PM
Author: vengeful corner persian

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: vengeful corner persian

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: Hairraiser amber internal respiration

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: fuchsia space quadroon



(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: Odious stead



(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: dull state queen of the night



(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: Big-titted bawdyhouse sandwich

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: Irradiated magenta giraffe hospital



(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: heady university coldplay fan

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: vengeful corner persian

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: heady university coldplay fan

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: dashing feces rehab

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: heady university coldplay fan

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: Pea-brained Angry Church

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: Big-titted bawdyhouse sandwich

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: Cerise gay wizard resort

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: Big-titted bawdyhouse sandwich

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: Drab mad cow disease

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: Odious stead

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: Spectacular Indigo Tattoo

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: Slate Trust Fund Goal In Life

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: Hairraiser amber internal respiration

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: cheese-eating abusive temple

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: outnumbered stag film goyim



(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: heady university coldplay fan

$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: Beta vibrant associate

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: heady university coldplay fan

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: Beta vibrant associate

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: vengeful corner persian

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: Well-lubricated emerald box office

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: Well-lubricated emerald box office

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: low-t people who are hurt

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: Comical Zombie-like Newt Site

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: Well-lubricated emerald box office

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: Ebony hell gaming laptop

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: Big-titted bawdyhouse sandwich

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: low-t people who are hurt

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: Ebony hell gaming laptop

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: heady university coldplay fan

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: Ebony hell gaming laptop

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: heady university coldplay fan

? 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: low-t people who are hurt

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: Thriller nursing home

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: heady university coldplay fan

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: mind-boggling parlor turdskin

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: mind-boggling parlor turdskin



(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: mind-boggling parlor turdskin

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: Ebony hell gaming laptop

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: Hairraiser amber internal respiration

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: outnumbered stag film goyim

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: Hairraiser amber internal respiration

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: Adventurous copper antidepressant drug



(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: Big-titted bawdyhouse sandwich



(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: mind-boggling parlor turdskin



(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: Odious stead

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: pale ceo



(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: Marvelous Karate Sound Barrier

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: vengeful corner persian

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: swollen milk casino

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: massive son of senegal dopamine



(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: Drab mad cow disease



(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: Marvelous Karate Sound Barrier

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: Free-loading curious cruise ship old irish cottage



(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: disgusting electric theatre

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: Anal appetizing scourge upon the earth



(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: Odious stead



(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: Flirting supple elastic band



(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: violent love of her life



(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: Frozen place of business

-$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: Drunken ocher house candlestick maker

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: Cerebral selfie

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: Provocative Den

holy fuck how jewish are you

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



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Date: December 18th, 2025 6:24 PM
Author: swashbuckling messiness menage

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: Multi-colored violet pozpig shrine

0

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



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Date: December 18th, 2025 8:07 PM
Author: Saffron Histrionic New Version

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: tan sick toaster psychic

$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: Soul-stirring very tactful puppy

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: boyish transparent juggernaut

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: Soul-stirring very tactful puppy

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: Know-it-all Location

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: boyish transparent juggernaut

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: Spectacular Indigo Tattoo

(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: boyish transparent juggernaut

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: Fear-inspiring wagecucks locus

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: opaque immigrant

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: Razzle underhanded whorehouse

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: Rambunctious Blood Rage Range

~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: Provocative Den

what happened

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



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Date: December 19th, 2025 11:37 AM
Author: Rambunctious Blood Rage Range

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: Adventurous copper antidepressant drug

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: Beta vibrant associate



(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: Sooty jewess

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: Irradiated magenta giraffe hospital

$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: charismatic market

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: Cerise gay wizard resort

~$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: laughsome mad-dog skullcap

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: pale ceo

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: Odious stead

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: laughsome mad-dog skullcap

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: Odious stead

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: laughsome mad-dog skullcap

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: domesticated roommate

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: Odious stead



(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: Spectacular Indigo Tattoo

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: Awkward abode

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: Spectacular Indigo Tattoo



(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: Comical Zombie-like Newt Site

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: Garnet legal warrant

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: motley learning disabled station

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: Garnet legal warrant

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: Awkward abode

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: Know-it-all Location

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: Flirting supple elastic band

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: vivacious school cafeteria

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: mentally impaired dilemma

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: vivacious school cafeteria

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: Soul-stirring very tactful puppy

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: vivacious school cafeteria

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: fuchsia space quadroon

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: mind-boggling parlor turdskin

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: vivacious school cafeteria

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: Marvelous Karate Sound Barrier

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: mentally impaired dilemma

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: pale ceo

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: Beta vibrant associate



(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: fuchsia space quadroon



(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: Wonderful Laser Beams Stage

$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: tan sick toaster psychic

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: Stirring Pearly Tank

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: Stirring Pearly Tank

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: Stirring Pearly Tank

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: kink-friendly unhinged friendly grandma public bath

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: Bat-shit-crazy school pocket flask

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: kink-friendly unhinged friendly grandma public bath

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: Beta vibrant associate

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: heady university coldplay fan

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: kink-friendly unhinged friendly grandma public bath

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: heady university coldplay fan



(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: Garnet legal warrant

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: dashing feces rehab

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: exhilarant topaz ape center

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: low-t people who are hurt

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: heady university coldplay fan

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: low-t people who are hurt

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: heady university coldplay fan

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: Beta vibrant associate

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: low-t people who are hurt

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: Beta vibrant associate

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: low-t people who are hurt

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: Beta vibrant associate

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: low-t people who are hurt

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: Beta vibrant associate

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: low-t people who are hurt

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: Beta vibrant associate

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: low-t people who are hurt

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: Fragrant mildly autistic cuckold home

$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: Trip spot main people



(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: Glittery kitchen

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: Lascivious Dragon

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: Ebony hell gaming laptop

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: Bat-shit-crazy school pocket flask

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: low-t people who are hurt

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: heady university coldplay fan

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: low-t people who are hurt

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: bull headed set cuck

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: Bat-shit-crazy school pocket flask

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: cobalt useless brakes

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: chartreuse galvanic point knife

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: violent love of her life

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: fuchsia space quadroon

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: Garnet legal warrant

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: cobalt useless brakes

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: pale ceo

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: fuchsia space quadroon

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: Comical Zombie-like Newt Site

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: fuchsia space quadroon

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: pale ceo

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: exhilarant topaz ape center

~$500k

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