The results of our poll are in.
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Last week, over 90,000 readers visited our poll on money habits, spilling the beans about what they're making, how they're spending it, and what they're spending it on.
Given this poll's completely unscientific nature — about 75,700 people responded to the first question, but that number dropped to 45,100 by the last, for one thing — we can't really extend these results to make any meaningful conclusions about a population beyond the BuzzFeed readers who decided to click. But still, those readers revealed some interesting things! Here's what we learned:
Almost half of the respondents bring in less than $20,000 a year, which is lower than both the national U.S. median wage ($28,031 as of 2013) and, by a much greater margin, the national U.S. average wage ($43,041 as of 2013).
It's a near tie between those with budgets and those without, though less than a quarter of those who do budget actually stick with it. Likely, the 38% who disregard the budgets they've put together are all-too-familiar with the “time to stare at my Mint graphs and think about how next month will be better” feeling.
