How much does a average Jewish family say 4 kids in midwood flatbush NYC area have to make to live comfortably, say yeshiva/beis yaakov for 4, mortgage on (average 1m) house, property tax, insurance, average car, kosher food, and lets not forget pesach, etc?Feel free to pm me if dont want to answer in public
How!?
$140k. Not from experience . But from talking with freinds in the general NY jewish neighborhoods . & that number is basically making it with not much thrills. If you wanna talk comfortable which means your not throwing nasty lines at your wife for her pomegranate supermarket bill, 2 nice cars , 2 vacations a year , making your own Yomim tovim etc... breakdown would prob be something like :60k annual mortgage +48k tuition 20k vacations (two) 25k groceries 20k in cars and insurance And the list goes on to health insurance, miscellaneous expenses like clothing, Shaitel etc....Comfy $250k. By comfy I mean no stress in living comfy Non jewish is not comparable at all
Don't forget Uncle Sam. I would say you need $225+
I would say 140k would get you by on half that mortgage - approx 36k a year. Back of napkin math - after tax your at (approx) 110. Take off 48 for tution your = 62k. Thats approx 5k a month a 500k mortgage with property tax and home insurance would be approx 3,000. Leaves you with about 2k a month for food, car, insurance and misc. Not much room for comfort...
500k mortgage means you put down alot. 2k a month for food, car, and the rest is impossible to keep to.Napkin math: 4 kids means a minivan, so if lucky car and insurance is 400 a mo. (Slightly less if you buy an old one), insurance for the family (deff takes off a chunk). at least $500 (almost forsure more) a mo. in food, way more on sukkos and pesach.
Savings are an absolute necessity, not a luxury. Everybody (seemingly) skipped that.
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