The FAANG FIRE Audience Insights

The 1st Annual FAANG FIRE Survey is now closed. I am going to need more time to do a proper deep dive. Until then I will leave you with the base pie charts from Google Forms of a number of the questions asked.

Remember, this is anonymous survey data. There will potentially be a bias in who spends the time to take the survey as well as no verification into how someone completes the survey.

Leave a comment to let me know which cuts of the data you are most interested in.

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Question 1: What is your age range?

67% of survey respondents are older than 35.

Question 2: What is your gender?

64% of respondents are male.

Question 3: What is your marital status?

78% married or in a domestic partnership.

Question 3b: What is partner’s employment status?

Lots of dual income households.

Question 4: Do you have children or dependents?

Question 4a: How many children or dependents do you have?

Question 5: Do you own your home or rent?

Unlike me, most of you own your home.

Question 6: Where do you work?

36% work at Meta and FAANG overall makes up 51%. 31% in other tech companies.

Question 7 & 8: What is your current level and how many years have you worked across all role?

Question 9: Total Annual Household Income?

49% reporting >=$500,000 household income.

Question 10: What is your current Net Worth?

53% have a total net worth of between $1,000,000 and $2,999,999.

Question 11: What is your Annual Household Spend?

Very even split across the spend spectrum overall.

Question 12: What is your Target Household Net Worth to Achieve FIRE?

55% are targeting a household net worth of >$5,000,000 to achieve FIRE.

Question 13: How Many Years Until You Plan to Achieve FIRE?

32.8% of you are planning to FIRE in the next 6 years.

Question 14: Do you plan to relocate after achieving FIRE?

Bonus Sub-Analysis

Of Married readers with FIRE goal of more than $6,000,000, 55% would define that as Chubby/Avocado FIRE.

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The first FAANG FIRE Book Club discussion of Christine Benz’s brand new book “How to Retire” kicks off on October 18th from 12-1:30pm PST. We will be discussing the first half of the book and it is open to all FAANG FIRE subscribers.

​Make sure you have a copy of the book. It is available on Amazon Paperback, Kindle, your local bookstore, or as an Audible Audiobook.

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I am curious your initial thoughts on the data? I didn’t fully anticipate how few early career tech workers were among us. Or perhaps they are the most likely to skip taking survey’s?