Originally Posted by
time_stamp
Actually Chase claims those users have an average income of 180K and they need 13K or less in bonus categories to not lose money. Do you think most people with 180K income have less than 13K dining, airfare, hotel, and misc travel combined? I make less than that and I have much more than that.
Unless they are pumping reimbursable business expenses through the card, yes I think $13k/$39k is a lot of credit card spend for a $180k income. Of course, people who don't save any money could easily do so.
I have relatively little "travel" spend. I use points for all my fights and hotels.