You Try to Live on 500K in This Town
- Private school: $32,000 a year per student.
- Mortgage: $96,000 a year.
- Co-op maintenance fee: $96,000 a year.
- Nanny: $45,000 a year.
We are already at $269,000, and we haven’t even gotten to taxes yet.
Five hundred thousand dollars — the amount President Obama wants to set as the top pay for banking executives whose firms accept government bailout money — seems like a lot, and it is a lot.
To many people in many places, it is a princely sum to live on.
But in the neighborhoods of New York City and its suburban enclaves where successful bankers live, half a million a year can go very fast.
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