How much are you earning per annum?

2015 - $36K
2018 - $100K
2022 - $200K
2026 - $300K
Job - Dreamer

Originally Posted by Unregistered

Typical farmer….MX11a

Why are you saying it like it's a massive gotcha to be ashamed of? Just like you... there are millions of people both ahead of and behind me in terms of professional success and wealth. And perhaps not just like you, I have everything I want in life.

Originally Posted by Unregistered

Civil service: 147,000 per annum

Thank you for sharing

How many years of experience do you have?

Originally Posted by Unregistered

Congrats. Can you share a bit more like how you achieve it? How did you negotiate a new salary unlinked to last drawn? Was it networking into the role or open app? I think many of use will benefit from the tips. Hope you are able to help.

Got into the new role due to network in the industry. The firm has its own compensation policy, which they offer me according to the benchmark of my peers (I did share my last drawn). Keep the connections warm

Time flies, another 4 years have passed since my last posting. Here's the latest stats:

Age: 51, 49
Family: wife with 2 kids, aged 19 and 16
Work: both STILL in financial industry, STILL in a support function (so not your banker, salesperson, trader etc)
Total income: $953K, $325K
Residence: Upgraded to FH Semi-D in Oct 2021 and sold off our leasehold terrace and 5rm HDB. Just bought a $3.5m invt pty in Jan 2025 under construction.
Car: new China EV @ $248k, collected car in Nov 2025.
Income tax for FY2026: $120K, $22K (wife's tax bill significantly increased from 2014 cos of $80k cap on reliefs).
Savings: $5.6m
Networth: $13.6m currently.

A few thoughts. As we get into our 50s, a new phase of life where kids are starting to have their own friend/network although still studying, and our plans to take a slight step back and enjoy ourselves abit more. No big ambitions to climb the career ladder, or upgrade from Semi-D to Detached/GCB. Just looking for a stable live with no drama, children finishing their studies and start support themselves, and we take more time to travel and "smell the flowers" so to speak.

Originally Posted by Unregistered

It's been a while since I logged in to this forum. Another 4 years have passed. Our latest info as follows:

Age: 47, 44
Family: wife with 2 kids, aged 15 and 12
Work: both STILL in financial industry, STILL in a support function (so not your banker, salesperson, trader etc)
Total income: $800K, $272K
Residence: Upgraded to FH Semi-D in Oct 2021 and sold off our leasehold terrace and 5rm HDB.
Car: 3.5yr Conti ride.
Income tax for FY2022: $140K, $14.4K (wife's tax bill significantly increased from 2014 cos of $80k cap on reliefs).
Savings: $5.1m
Networth: $9.2m currently.

Male 37 Specialist in gov hospital 355k
Wife 33 General practitioner 240k

mid 30s male, just married. not much of a salary story but hustle story.
in my mid 20s i was working/studying in a local uni.
i was doing sales and made 4k in my first month. then i realized, damn if i started out my salary less than my summer work doing sales. so my perspective greatly shifted since then. ever since graduation in mid 2010s i did not get a fulltime job but was hustling around. i was lucky as i did not have parents to support (they are self-sufficient)

now in 2026
NW - ~6M SGD ( i earned 8+m the last few years, but i bought a 200k EV, enjoyed my life quite abit, good food/hotels/travelling, bought alot of watches ~500k value that i can liquidate at or above profit as well)
wife ~ 1.5M SGD
no property, waiting to flip maybe 2-3x on a possible upcoming recession.
no debt/liabilities.
No i'm not from rich family, no i'm not doing anything illegal. and it's totally legit.
we're 100% self made, wife did her own business for over 10 years and kinda slowing down to start a family.

I've been in crypto the last 8 years, in the beginning of my career i was buying/selling on behalf of people wanting to invest into bitcoin charging them a premium. (good money like 20k+/month) few months in I lost a huge ton of money (mid 6 figures) earlier from being cheated. was stuck in a bad place both financially and mentally and health wise for maybe 1-2 years. But I bounced back and persevered, slowly crawling back the debt, maybe earning 10-20k slowly.

in 2022 I got a breakthrough in my career, I found an opportunity to arbitrage across different markets. I found myself working everyday 16hrs even sleeping for a few hours to wake up to my tradingview alerts, do some trading then go back to sleep; for 1 month. Then i wrote my own trading program to basically do it for me 24/7. because there was the opportunity (maybe in a few years when i can no longer do this i will update exactly what i did haha). took me a couple weeks but then basically everything was on autopilot for a few years.

it's 2026 now and certain things happened and some system stuff got patched so arbitrage isn't that profitable anymore. but i'm/we're kinda semi retired now maybe waiting for bitcoin to dip to 50k.

expecting our daughter soon so too bad for her both her parents will be home all the time to annoy her hahahaha.

yeah we're really rich now and nobody knows except my wife because i'm really chill about it and i'm just hoarding cash waiting for a recession but maybe when we buy our first property together it'll be lul.

looking around i'm probably up at the top but i'm incredibly lucky, and have some long term serious health issues due to stress/trauma/ptsd from losing so much money in my late 20s and it could have gone either way (some people might commit suicide if they went through what i went through). then again, the price of greatness. if i got a job from graduation yeah i'd be pretty ok now, in my mid 30s, but probably nowhere near my current actual state.

This post smells like bs. Support function makes nowhere close to 900k.

Originally Posted by Unregistered

Time flies, another 4 years have passed since my last posting. Here's the latest stats:

Age: 51, 49
Family: wife with 2 kids, aged 19 and 16
Work: both STILL in financial industry, STILL in a support function (so not your banker, salesperson, trader etc)
Total income: $953K, $325K
Residence: Upgraded to FH Semi-D in Oct 2021 and sold off our leasehold terrace and 5rm HDB. Just bought a $3.5m invt pty in Jan 2025 under construction.
Car: new China EV @ $248k, collected car in Nov 2025.
Income tax for FY2026: $120K, $22K (wife's tax bill significantly increased from 2014 cos of $80k cap on reliefs).
Savings: $5.6m
Networth: $13.6m currently.

A few thoughts. As we get into our 50s, a new phase of life where kids are starting to have their own friend/network although still studying, and our plans to take a slight step back and enjoy ourselves abit more. No big ambitions to climb the career ladder, or upgrade from Semi-D to Detached/GCB. Just looking for a stable live with no drama, children finishing their studies and start support themselves, and we take more time to travel and "smell the flowers" so to speak.

Originally Posted by Unregistered

This post smells like bs. Support function makes nowhere close to 900k.

Let him dream….life is sad…can only post fake stuff to make themselves feel better