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Medical insurance is more like $1,600+/month for a married couple, even more if you have kids. That's ~$20k/year which brings you down to $85k after tax.

And did you factor-in having to pay both halves of Social Security and Medicare? I believe that's another 15.3% [0]

[0] https://www.google.com/amp/s/turbotax.intuit.com/tax-tips/se...



I just used this actually; I presume they included both halves of Medicare & Social Security: https://www.irscalculators.com/tax-calculator

I was assuming single/young (so low-cost insurance), I wasn't really thinking of family/children but that's a good point!




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