Devonte Duncan, 27, lives in Brooklyn, New York, and works as a software engineer at a tech company, earning $159,000 a year. After reaching a six-figure salary, his spending quickly caught up with his income and led him into debt.<\/p>\n
Now, Devonte takes a much more deliberate approach to his finances, balancing stricter budgeting with a lifestyle that still allows him to enjoy his money.<\/p>\n
In this episode of Cost of Living, Devonte breaks down exactly how he earns, spends, budgets, and invests while living in one of the most expensive cities in the US.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Devonte Duncan, 27, lives in Brooklyn, New York, and works as a software engineer at a tech company,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":327350,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[98,7739,27776,123157,123155,1618,1603,232,5069,237,9,11,10,21043,68462,123156,73797],"class_list":["post-327349","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-brooklyn","tag-budget","tag-cost","tag-deliberate-approach","tag-devonte-duncan","tag-episode","tag-finance","tag-lifestyle","tag-living","tag-money","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-headlines","tag-new-york-news","tag-salary","tag-spend","tag-strict-budgeting","tag-tech-company"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/327349","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=327349"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/327349\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/327350"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=327349"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=327349"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=327349"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}