Past surveys about Prius owners are sadly out of date. To hide absolute numbers, we're asking for the income per person in a household. Divide the approximate adjusted gross income by the number of people living off that income. For example, 10 years ago, $85,000 / 2 = $42,500.00 for me and my late wife. This should be an anonymous poll and certainly, you are welcome to add notes. Your poll answer should be untraceable. Bob Wilson
It's confusing for me because I count all trees and plants in my nursery of 25 years as persons... But I'm thinking maybe $1 per person per year, but probably $1.10 if you account for inflation.
People *always* tell the truth in polls, especially anonymous polls.......leading to their peerless reputation for accuracy. Gross income? Net income? Adjusted gross income? Disclosed income?
Most everyone is gross unless you are a business owner who claims no wage. If you earn 50-150k you do get a large slice off the top before you even get a check though. The us is down to 50% of the population having any job, in combination with record low numbers of kids/teens and record high numbers of those in advanced age working full time. Bobs poll doesn’t get into the gritty of many people’s experiences that one person in a household may only make ~$22k, another may be unemployed and another might be doing okish. (Fewer traditional households these days, even amongst the elderly) we are in a bifurcated economy where the median income values no longer mean much, this state has some counties with very low mode incomes while the median may still appear to be for example $37k this chart is out of date for example and makes things actually look better than they are because of the number of rural home owners that saturate entire counties down towards the bottom.
Every criticism is correct (and many more.) But like my Marine DI once said, ‘A grain of observation out weighs 10 pounds of cattle fecal matter any day.’ This fun poll is more for everyone’s amusement than anything else. Bob Wilson
The problem with the poll as I see it is it doesn't reflect income potential but rather income realized. Nor take into account expenses that must be covered by that income for one person may not be for another. An example. say someone has a 401k and must take a RMD but could take twice that.They have stocks they bought in the 1960s that has appreciated and split and created stock in multiple other corporations. They haven't touched it in all that time. They own two houses, all paid for. 2 cars, paid for. They have health insurance that is subsidized in part by some prior employment. Some or all of the above. Each of those represents the possibility of income they could realize, but elect not to. Or a substitute for income by something being provided by some other means.. A bit different from the person working two jobs with the same income. He may answer the question the same as this but their life style is liable to be different. I think the question should be: Income after rent/mortgage, food, car expenses, insurance, medical insurance. What does the person have to spend at McDonalds? Or on TV service? Or even heat and a/c?
Yes, this is why one person's finances compared to another person's finances isn't allways apples to apples. I think housing is the main difference. If rent in the area averages around $2,000 per bedroom (2 bedroom = $4,000, 3 bed = $6,000, etc.) then a person paying that compared to someone who got a mortgage on a $100,000 foreclosed 3-bedroom house in the 2008 financial crisis in the same area are in two completely different financial situations. Also, the push by subscription service providers is killing some of the free services. The local OTA TV repeater service was decommissioned here in my valley even though we still get taxed for it. Canada decommissioned Weatheradio in the entire country, so you have to pay for an internet plan in order to get weather alerts there now.
