{"id":1017032,"date":"2026-08-22T12:40:17","date_gmt":"2026-08-22T12:40:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/1017032\/"},"modified":"2026-08-22T12:40:17","modified_gmt":"2026-08-22T12:40:17","slug":"breaking-down-my-159000-salary-in-brooklyn-new-york","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/1017032\/","title":{"rendered":"Breaking Down My $159,000 Salary in Brooklyn, New York"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>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","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":3,"featured_media":1017033,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5122],"tags":[5229,1121,3232,13332,406984,406982,3404,525,1165,18302,6459,405,403,5226,5225,5228,5227,16931,220729,406983,38485,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":["post-1017032","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-america","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-city","tag-newyork","tag-newyorkcity","tag-ny","tag-nyc","tag-salary","tag-spend","tag-strict-budgeting","tag-tech-company","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-unitedstates","tag-unitedstatesofamerica","tag-us","tag-usa"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1017032","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1017032"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1017032\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1017033"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1017032"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1017032"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1017032"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}