How much do you save?

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  1. Jingo

    Jingo Well-Known Member

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    Throughout our investing journey, we have managed to save a portion of our income each year. I'd be interested to hear from others how much of your income you save. (In percentage terms).

    For those investors with a number of investments, do you still save and why?

    My wife and I manage to save approximately 55% of our take home pay each year. We are currently investing the money into shares and ETF's to generate further income streams.
     
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    Can you provide context? Children? I think this makes all the difference
     
  3. Sackie

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    Did a rough calculation and back then we probably saved around 75% of our salary. But no kids.

    No we don't save much anymore - little point for us to. Our yearly equity created far exceeds any salary we need to save for further deposits. Once the equity machine (your portfolio) produces 2-300k a year and more, trying to save an extra 15k from salary to invest really becomes redundant imo. We do save some of our investment profits though, most goes back into other investments in Australia and abroad.
     
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  4. Fielding

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    Save about 50% in total. 30% reinvestment and 20% holiday and enjoying myself fund. No kids.
     
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    Save about 75% of total net pay each week. All savings going into offset for further purchases and building share portfolio.
     
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    Wow and I thought we were saving a lot! We save 40% of our take home pay.
     
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  7. Ace in the Hole

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    Not counting property income which is slightly positive.
    With 1 child we save about 90% of our salaries and net business income.
     
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    That's fantastic Pins!! When I used to work in the private sector, most of my colleagues had a negative saving rate..lol Their pay check was spent on credit days before they even got paid. Unbelievable.
     
  9. Biz

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    We earn decent incomes but find it really hard to save anything significant. We probably save about 20-30k a year. The bulk of what we are worth has come via investment returns.
     
  10. Pistonbroke

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    More to the point, how much don't you spend? 15-20% goes directly to tax effective salary sacrifice so I don't spend it on tax ;)
     
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    Impressive
     
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  12. Ace in the Hole

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    Thanks, high income helps.
    Our spending has not increased at the same rate our incomes have increased when we started from a low base 10 years ago.
     
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  13. KDP

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    DINK, atm 60% is going into investments or cash savings.
     
  14. S.T

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    I find I don't actually save much, rather invest it into lower risk investments.
     
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    Re plough investment/development profits back into more deals. Savings don't apply really. Having said that, if you spend aggressively while turning over property deals you will most likely end up spending everything and not getting ahead.
     
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    I tracked every dollar in 2013, while saving deposits:

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    In 2015, a notably higher proportion (and amount) is going in to business and investment.
     
  18. aussieshorter

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    We've always aimed at spending less than 50% on living expenses (including holidays), and the remaining 'savings' is put into investments.

    With our first baby about to start daycare that will be tested though!
     
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    I'd class that as discretionary spending.
     
  20. aussieshorter

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    True, but my 50% target includes all living expenses, which by my definition includes discretionary spending.