just started a salary job making $43,000 It's not a lot, especially for my area but I've worked my tail off for jobs that underpay for the last decade and it's nice to finally get some money.

I saw my paycheck in our pay system and it said $1,685.35. So I added it up and that comes out to 39,692.4 a year. I thought cool, they're gonna take out like3,300 for taxes and I'll take home $1,685.
Today I get my first check and my take home pay, after taxes is $1324. Which is very underwhelming and honestly depressing because it feels like "what's the point?"

I understand the tax portion but where is the extra 3,300 going? What am I not understanding, or has there been a mistake?

reddit.com/r/personalfinance/s/9f01ZtomAw

to the capitalist

Breaking News y’all!

We making threads about a random Reddit users life?

first comment answers the question, thread is locked, and you post it here?

kill yourself buddy

Mods perma me 🙏

Lock thread ban op. Back to the Reddit sewer you go!

I just cleaned poop out of my dogs mouth

down the hall to the left

Damn whatchall on today? S***

Meant to be a discussion on low salaried jobs out of college and the expectation. Mb y’all want to discuss farts instead

They really shouldn’t of opened registration up cause what the f***

Cronyism and taxes are killing us.

Taxation is armed robbery with a missile

nigga thought they'd only take 2k for taxes

KTT runnin dry because we reposting Reddit threads

If nobody feels like clicking the link, he calculated based on two checks a month (24) when in reality he’s getting 26 checks a year. Lock thread

S i think this is the thread that needs to be the kick off of the ktt2 comeback era. I dont think it can get worse than this. Only up from here 🙏

T***

Stop posting Reddit s*** on here

It’s @op’s account

i get its a reddit post bt this can be a dope conversation with insight being gained from the more experienced ppl on this site.