A HENRY is a High Earner, Not Rich Yet, and describes individuals who earn a high income but haven’t YET accumulated significant wealth yet (maybe due to lack of planning, being in an expensive phase of life, having prohibitively expensive goals, or simply due to age).
Making a "dangerous" amount of money is a real thing. If your income in 2023 was in the $150,000-$750,000 range you want to continue reading. If you're making $75k-$80k you probably have to have a pretty good handle on how much you're spending, how much you're saving and what is left over each month because you have to. There's not so much "extra" and so it requires you to be extra diligent about how you are spending your money (even more so if you're committed to a savings goal).
We can't control a lot right now. Our day to day lives. Our work. Maybe even our health...it's all scary to think about. And as we all know, we definitely can't control what's going on in the stock market. So lets make sure that we're controlling the areas of our life and our finances that we can. Here's one: Make it your mission to understand the tax opportunities ahead of you and the tax discounts staring us all in the face right now. Be proactive. Don't let this financial low point go to waste!
