Earning less than $30,000 is a ‘deal breaker’ for daters

One-third of couples don’t talk about their finances until after marriage, according to a new survey of 1,000 adults by Western & Southern Financial Group.

This is especially alarming because, it seems, people have financial problems when looking at people as potential partners.

When asked whether the amount of debt or how low salary will make a potential partner undateable, survey respondents had some surprising answers. Here are two financial deal breakers, according to the study.

This is lower than the median annual salary in the United States, which is $37,522, according to 2021 data from the US Census Bureau.

Salary was the number one financial characteristic that respondents wished they had discussed with their partners sooner.

More than one in four, 27.2%, of those surveyed said they only talked about their salary after marriage. And 18.7% said they talked about salary after getting engaged.

This is less than the average student loan debt with a bachelor’s degree, which is $37,574, according to data from the Education Data Initiative.

Men forgive more debt than women, survey shows. For a man, $31,179 is a crushing amount of debt. For women it is $22,901.

Personal debt and credit card debt are also sources of friction when it comes to dating, according to the survey.