Friday, July 10, 2009

How Do You Spend You Money?

The U.S. Department of Labor published the following fun little graphic illustrating how the average family (excuse me, Consumer Unit) consisting of 2.5 persons spends their average $49,638 per year.
I just think this is kind of fun to compare. Now for the record I am single, one full time job, one part time job, three cats. I am sure I spend an above average amount on reading and insurance/pensions (but only because I max out Roth IRA contributions each year). People pay at least my expenses for me to go to classes, so I am below average on education. My car is paid off so you can put below average on transportation and its fairly efficient (could be better) and I own a paid off scooter which gets great mileage so I am below average there as well. I don't see vacation/travel specifically mentioned...maybe lumped under entertainment? I do well at travel and vacation, so I probably spend as much on that as the average 2.5 person family! Tabacco, 0%. I own a townhome and adding everything up, comes up a bit short of average.

Anyway, I thought this was interesting enough to post. Any surprises on how you compare?

4 comments:

kkdither said...

Only $475 for alcohol?????? That is the budget for each JTI gathering. tee hee. Ok, seriously, it is fun to compare.

Huck Finn said...

and nothing for pot? "sheesh"

MinnesotaChick said...

Huck, that would fall under entertainment or personal. ;)

OrbsCorbs said...

They have alcohol and tobacco at a combined 1.6% of expenditures. When I drank and smoked, it was probably 50%.