{"id":341545,"date":"2026-09-09T07:18:58","date_gmt":"2026-09-09T07:18:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/341545\/"},"modified":"2026-09-09T07:18:58","modified_gmt":"2026-09-09T07:18:58","slug":"breaking-down-my-159000-salary-in-brooklyn-new-york-cost-of-living","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/341545\/","title":{"rendered":"Breaking Down My $159,000 Salary In Brooklyn, New York | Cost Of Living"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"attributed-text-segment-list__content text-color-text !text-sm whitespace-pre-wrap break-words&#10;        attributed-text-segment-list__content-truncated\" dir=\"ltr\" data-test-id=\"main-feed-activity-card__commentary\">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<p>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<p>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<p>Watch full video: <a class=\"link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/redir\/redirect?url=https%3A%2F%2Flnkd%2Ein%2FeFVtrKxh&amp;urlhash=Cf6c&amp;trk=public_post-text\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" data-tracking-control-name=\"public_post-text\" data-tracking-will-navigate=\"\">https:\/\/lnkd.in\/eFVtrKxh<\/a><\/p>\n<p>      \u2026more<\/p>\n<p>  <a class=\"social-action-bar__button social-action-bar__button--transcript p-0 pl-0 pb-0.5 pt-0.5\" href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/signup\/cold-join?session_redirect=https%3A%2F%2Fwww%2Elinkedin%2Ecom%2Fposts%2Fbusinessinsider_breaking-down-my-159000-salary-in-brooklyn-activity-7503197993735647232-ZbCe&amp;trk=public_post_like-cta\" data-tracking-control-name=\"public_post_like-cta\" data-tracking-will-navigate=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><\/p>\n<p>      Like<\/p>\n<p>  <\/a><\/p>\n<p>  <a class=\"social-action-bar__button social-action-bar__button--transcript\" href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/signup\/cold-join?session_redirect=https%3A%2F%2Fwww%2Elinkedin%2Ecom%2Fposts%2Fbusinessinsider_breaking-down-my-159000-salary-in-brooklyn-activity-7503197993735647232-ZbCe&amp;trk=public_post_comment-cta\" data-tracking-control-name=\"public_post_comment-cta\" data-tracking-will-navigate=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><\/p>\n<p>      Comment<\/p>\n<p>  <\/a><\/p>\n<p>            Transcript<\/p>\n<p>            Transcript<\/p>\n<p>\n            Transcript<br \/>\n          My name is Devonte Duncan, I&#8217;m a software engineer living in Brooklyn, NY. My base salary is $159,000 a year. I&#8217;m going to be sharing everything about my finances. This is cost of living. I&#8217;m a Level 3 software engineer at a tech company in New York City. My annual base salary is about $159,000. I did get a sign on bonus of about $20,000 and I did spend that on a Tesla Model 3 back when it was super expensive. When I got hired I received $100,000 in equity in the form of RSU that vested over the period of four years, so yearly that brought my total salary up to around 215. The $240,000 and that ran out pretty much so now I&#8217;m back down to the base $159,000 a year. My monthly salary is $13, 250. My take home after taxes, after healthcare, after every deduction is about $7752 a month. The only additional side income that I earn is from my YouTube channel which is dose of Devi and I believe at its peak I was earning about 300 to $400. A month and now it&#8217;s about $100 a month just because I haven&#8217;t been making videos as often as I was before. I work five days a week and there was an RTO olicy at my job so I go in Tuesdays and Thursdays and the other days I just work from home.\n        <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Devonte Duncan, 27, lives in Brooklyn, New York, and works as a software engineer at a tech company,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":341546,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[98,100,99,9,24,63],"class_list":["post-341545","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn-headlines","tag-brooklyn-news","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/341545","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=341545"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/341545\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/341546"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=341545"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=341545"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=341545"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}