What is your income

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What is your income?

I am primarily on government assistance.	22%	[ 19 ]
Under 10,000 USD	12%	[ 10 ]
10,000 to 20,000 USD	8%	[ 7 ]
20,001 to 30,000 USD	8%	[ 7 ]
30,001 to 40,000 USD	7%	[ 6 ]
40,001 to 50,000 USD	5%	[ 4 ]
50,001 to 60,000 USD	2%	[ 2 ]
60,001 to 80,000 USD	5%	[ 4 ]
80,001 to 100,000 USD	5%	[ 4 ]
100,001 to 150,000 USD	4%	[ 3 ]
150,001 to 200,000 USD	2%	[ 2 ]
Over 200,000 USD	0%	[ 0 ]
I am still in school and make little to no income	20%	[ 17 ]

Total votes : 85

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18 Apr 2013, 10:28 pm

I am just curious how much money most Aspies make. Please answer with only your income, not your spouses too if you are married.

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18 Apr 2013, 10:38 pm

How would you like us to adjust for local Cost of Living (COL)? I usually suggest picking a US city's COL and telling which calculator to use.

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18 Apr 2013, 10:50 pm

DVCal wrote:

I am just curious how much money most Aspies make. Please answer with only your income, not your spouses too if you are married.

I'm still in school and make $18,000/year working (mostly during summers) and mooch about another $20,000 off the government using various loopholes in the American legal system.

There is no option for me. Unfortunately, I feel quite incompetent because I have friends who collect $100,000 + each year from the government, including an ex con I tried to date once. It is just beyond my skill set or courage.

If I had to live my life over again, I would have created a fake disability rating for the Armed Forces and then collected SSDI for this and Asperger's while retiring in Hainan Island of the People's Republic of China and maybe opening an education consulting firm for study abroad while living the good life.

Unfortunately, I have decided to dedicate my life to being a productive, law-abiding citizen. This has both its good and bad sides.

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18 Apr 2013, 11:08 pm

Tyri0n wrote:

DVCal wrote:

I am just curious how much money most Aspies make. Please answer with only your income, not your spouses too if you are married.

Is the 20,000 mostly school money? How are you getting it? Would I qualify?

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18 Apr 2013, 11:27 pm

I think I am between $20,000-$30,000. I would have to add up my paychecks to see.

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18 Apr 2013, 11:30 pm

Should "No income, no disability payments" go in the under 10,000?

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18 Apr 2013, 11:34 pm

Tuttle wrote:

Should "No income, no disability payments" go in the under 10,000?

yea, 0 is under 10,000.

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18 Apr 2013, 11:47 pm

DVCal wrote:

Tyri0n wrote:

DVCal wrote:

I am just curious how much money most Aspies make. Please answer with only your income, not your spouses too if you are married.

Is the 20,000 mostly school money? How are you getting it? Would I qualify?

A lot of it comes through the GI Bill. My school also made a mistake in stacking my scholarships on top of my GI Bill, so I get refunds into my bank account. And food stamps, TANF, medicaid. I claim one of my younger sisters as a dependent, and I actually do help support her because my parents are paupers.

I'm actually not as sociopathic as I sound. I actually went to my university worried about this "problem" with money flowing into my bank account, and they said there was nothing they could do to fix it. This is why I went to school here and did not transfer even though I absolutely hate it. So it's a mixed bag.

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18 Apr 2013, 11:51 pm

I work full-time and make about 14,000 which is just below the poverty line. My wife is on SSD and we get food stamps.

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19 Apr 2013, 12:02 am

When I was a nurse I averaged around $30K - $50K/year. I haven't worked in a year so I collect Unemployment Insurance. It runs out in two months though so, in two months, it's back to the bump and the grind for me.

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19 Apr 2013, 12:02 am

Tyri0n wrote:

DVCal wrote:

Tyri0n wrote:

DVCal wrote:

I am just curious how much money most Aspies make. Please answer with only your income, not your spouses too if you are married.

Is the 20,000 mostly school money? How are you getting it? Would I qualify?

Ah and from what I know GI Bill and all other Vet Benefits do NOT count as income for government assistance, so you can still qualify for those other benefits even with the GI money.

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19 Apr 2013, 2:38 am

I'm wondering if income can be considered relevant to Asperger's. It seems to range anywhere between disability income to Bill Gates.

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19 Apr 2013, 2:46 am

briankelley wrote:

I'm wondering if income can be considered relevant to Asperger's. It seems to range anywhere between disability income to Bill Gates.

This was more for my curiosity what the typical person on WP makes.

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19 Apr 2013, 3:38 am

Disability

That's about 14 a year here (it's also considered an income IIRC).

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19 Apr 2013, 9:22 am

briankelley wrote:

I'm wondering if income can be considered relevant to Asperger's.

It's a fair question, even if I'd prefer a COL baseline to put up a number.

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19 Apr 2013, 2:39 pm

currently in school, though also applying for disability as school has gone on for 8 years now and the last two jobs I've had prompted emotional breakdowns in less than a day.

I actually think I've made less than $10,000 in my entire life, and I've tried full-time work in some of the years I wasn't in school.

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