[joshuaheard]

I live in a large suburban home. I spend $1,000/mo on landscaping services and $1,000/mo on maid services. If I could buy a $10,000 robot that could do those things, as well as have apps for doing dinner dishes, laundry, making the bed, and feeding the pets, I would do it in a second.

[nebula8804]

You really sound like the exception even for this forum. Either that or I am woefully underpaid.

[simantel]

At $250/visit, that's just weekly landscaping and housecleaning. More than I pay for myself (we have a housecleaner that comes monthly), but not unreasonable, especially for a well-paid dual-income household.

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[nebula8804]

The person said $1,000 a month for landscaping and $1,000 a month for house cleaning. Thats like 1/3 of my take home. Is that really normal for people?

Regarding salary, Looking at my area, unless im in FAANG seems like im making around what the site says. I feel like that expense would be too much but maybe I just didnt get into stocks or crypto as much as others have done here.

[simantel]

Yeah $1,000 a month would be $250 a week, which is 2-3 person hours of a housecleaner or landscaper's time, so like a 2 person crew for an hour or 90 minutes.

If you and your spouse each make $150k (so $300k household income), paying 8% of your income ($24k/year) to have 6 extra hours a week to spend with your kids seems like a fair trade.

Two people working in tech could easily be making more like a $5-600k household income though, at which point $24k is only 4-5%.

[nebula8804]

I guess since im not married I looked at it differently. Sill is both spouses making that kind of money really that common?

[simantel]

$300k puts you in the 94th percentile for household income, so objectively no, it's not that common.

In tech though, especially in the Bay Area, it feels like the norm.