Moving from central Illinois. Got a job offer today for a company in Englewood. First year salary will be 85,000 (73,000+12,000 sign-on). Realistically, after taxes, I've calculated my first year take home to be ~60,000, after which (if no raises or bonuses, only riding my salary) take home will be ~55,000. Not sure on the accuracy of that, just used smartasset.com. Source: 7 months ago

That is ordinary income taxes. If it was qualified I’d pay $0 on first $81,000 I make. You can calculate taxes with smartasset.com . Federal taxes are pretty low on mere mortals. The rich really do pay their fair share. Source: 12 months ago

I use smartasset.com Good tax calculator. Assume $100,000/ yr from JEPI/JEPQ. Married filing jointly I get effective Fed rate of 8.48% with $8481. My state is listed as eff rate of 4.87% or $4868. No FICA of course. Taxes total about 15%. Big deal. Now if you have $300,000 in dividends I would either go with qualified dividends or long term gains rate on selling shares. Source: about 1 year ago

Net (w/taxes etc): $70,000 (per SmartAsset.com) breaks down to $5,000/month net ($2,500 bi-weekly). Source: about 1 year ago

I'm not cherry-picking here. I'm picking out random cities, typing them into smartasset.com, and typing out the results as they come. Source: about 1 year ago

I would make sure that you lock down your and your husband's credit. I would check creditsesame.com and creditkarma.com to check out your credit file. This woman is sounds like she will go to extremes to get money. Source: over 2 years ago

Shut down your credit with all three bureaus. You can get free credit reports and views at creditsesame.com and creditkarma.com. If you think that reporting your nmother to the SS administration would get you thrown out, I would wait until you can escape. Source: over 2 years ago