How to determine precentage to pay bill with boyfriend?

Question

Someone said on here the easiest why they learned with was taking an equal precentage of the paychecks to put towards bills. How do I figure that out? Some weeks are different than others on pay and hours worked.

Answer 1

For now, just go with your 2006 tax return (the one you filed in April 2007), unless your situation has changed a lot. If you've started in a new job, just make your best guess -- you and your boyfriend have to agree on it, but this is a pretty low-level sort of thing to have to sort out. If you make $500-600 per week and he makes $400-500, just call it 550 and 450 and pay 55% and 45% of the joint bills.

Keep a simple spreadsheet on your computer with your income for each month and your jointly-paid bills from each month. Just open it once a month and type in another row of data with ten or twelve numbers -- not hard at all. Then you'll know what your typically monthly income is and will better be able to estimate the percentages each of you should pay (plus, you can use it to track your expenses, which you should care about just as much as you care about your income!).

Good luck to you,

Doug

Answer 2

The easiest thing to do is to add up all your joint bills, divide it by two then divide it by 4 and thats how much you each pay each week. Then you have to pay your individual bills out of your own money.

Answer 3

split half on everything that is neccessary that you share, like rent because you both are living there, then water, electricity, telephone. if he wants to have direct tv mens channel then he pays for that. your clothing you buy is paid by you only. Well this should be a good idea.

Answer 4

You could look at your total income for last year, if nothing has changed much.