Should I Be Investing 15% of My Side Income?
Ramsey Everyday Millionaires
Ramsey Network
4.6 • 3.6K Ratings
🗓️ 3 November 2021
⏱️ 5 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to Ramsey everyday millionaires, where we talk retirement, building wealth, |
| 0:10.5 | and outrageous generosity. |
| 0:14.1 | Carla is in San Antonio. |
| 0:15.8 | Carla, welcome to the Ramsey show. |
| 0:17.5 | Hi guys, thanks for taking my call. |
| 0:20.1 | Absolutely. |
| 0:21.1 | How can we help today? |
| 0:22.1 | Okay, so my stuff and I were currently wrapping up on baby steps 3, we'll be done at the end |
| 0:27.4 | of the month and as we start preparing for the 15% into retirement, I have a question |
| 0:33.2 | about volatile income. |
| 0:34.9 | So we have some side hustle income and my spouse is a new real estate agent. |
| 0:40.5 | So I was wondering, is it okay if I take my fixed salary and say 15% of that and then |
| 0:47.6 | take the side hustle money and throw it at the mortgage? |
| 0:52.9 | Or how do I just, or I guess like how do I balance that into the 15%? |
| 0:56.9 | I guess it's my question. |
| 0:58.5 | Okay, so you've got, you have your full time job and you have some side hustle income |
| 1:02.2 | and you're saying, hey, can I invest just my full time job and not the side hustle income? |
| 1:06.6 | Right, it's so volatile, yeah, exactly. |
| 1:09.6 | Yeah, it's a great question. |
| 1:11.6 | We tell people to invest 15% of their household income. |
| 1:14.6 | That means any money coming in that year. |
| 1:17.5 | So if I'm you, I'm taking 15% of the side hustle income and I assume you're still going to |
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