[US] Find out how much you have earned in your lifetime by logging in to your Social Security Account.
https://www.ssa.gov/myaccount/
After creating an account / logging in, click on Earnings, then add the columns. If you have been working for many years, try copying/pasting the column in excel and using the sum function.
The numbers don’t list money not reported to the government, obviously.
I don’t know if the numbers are before or after taxes.
e: Numbers are pretax. Thanks guys!
e2 : From the comments it looks like people don’t know the answers to their security questions or are just discovering their identity is stolen…most likely the former.
e3 : My second post to make it to the front page!
e4 : Canada look here. Austrailia and UK: Sorry mates, haven’t seen anything posted here for you.
Submitted May 11, 2016 at 12:33PM by self-confidence
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