April sees the start of another finan­cial year and as such I find myself think­ing about finan­cial mat­ters more often than is typical.

I then stum­bled across Plonkee’s How Much Do I Need to Earn? post, detail­ing how she reverse engi­neered her ideal salary. I had a go myself, and it’s quite enlight­en­ing; it reminds me a lot of Tim Fer­riss’ Ideal Lifestyle Cost­ing.

Both are worth check­ing out and run­ning the cal­cu­la­tions purely to see how much you would really need to earn to do what you like… it was way less than I imagined.