My rent is a little over a third of my take home paycheck (after tax and benefits and all that get taken out), and I think that's about normal for around here.
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Mine's about just under a third, and comes to an even third if I count gas&electric.
Good luck, job seekers.
Also, for Buffistas who rent: approximately how much of your monthly income do you spend on rent? And how much is too much?
I pay slightly less than 20%. But rent is very cheap. If I buy, I'll likely be paying close to 50% in mortgage and other costs.
We spend about 7% on our rent.
I think I'm inching closer to half than I'd like with parking and utilities. I need to do some budget number crunching.
mine's like 40 - 45% of take-home. it sux.
I'm just now watching the Cobert Report from last night. Love the Tim Robbins-Colbert audience bit.
I have a roommate who pays rent that goes right to my mortgage, so counting only my share, I'm paying about 18% of my take-home.
The answer to my problems is, of course, that some employer needs to pay me a very large amount of money because I'm awesome.
Rent is about 30% of my take-home pay, which is I think is average for the US but low for NYC.