My wife scored a $944 commission this check from her company this month!

Her commission checks are great because they are “extra” money that we can put towards savings and/or retirement investments since our regular saleries cover our month-to-month expenses. What a blessing.

May is turning into a very good net worth increase month for us. I can’t wait to update our numbers at the end of the month.

Great news! My wife has been working on a large business deal and last week obtained the signed contract. It’s great to see her hard work pay off. She will receive a $3,800+ commission from the sale when the invoice is paid in a couple of months.

In addition to the awesome initial commission, there is a good likelihood that this account will produce additional commissions for her down the road thru maintenance of the system she sold and other work this customer needs done.

My wife is a CLOSER.

My wife is really getting consistent with earning commission checks each month. This month, she received a $448.15 commission check – just like clockwork. The great news is that she has a number of orders she will receive commissions for in the next few months. She’s done a impressive job of cold calling and expanding her customer base.

Since our monthly expenses are already covered by our base salaries, any commission checks that she receives can go directly to investments, savings, paying off debt, etc. Most of the money she earned in this commission check is going to be deposited into our savings account.

As I posted about previously, my company is resetting everyone’s review date to the anniversary of their hire date. Most employee reviews already fall on the anniversary of their hire date, but, in the past, if you received a promotion, the date that you received your promotion became your new annual review date.

I received a promotion in January of 2006, thus, changing my annual review from my April hire anniversary to January. Since my company is resetting everyone back to the anniversary of their hire date, I received another review this week.

I was blessed to receive a very positive review that included a 2.07% bump up in pay, from $69,030/annually to $70,460/annually. Combined with my 4.5% increase in January, I’m up 6.57% this year.

We’ve decided to increase my 401(k) contribution by 1%, to a total of 5%. The reminder of the raise money will be used to help us try to keep up with the cost of living.

Why? Because my wife is way too profitable.

She just received a $1,292.50 commission check from her company. That’s some serious extra cash. Instead of going out and buying a home theater system (because we already did that last week), we’re going to be more responsible with the money. Our plan is to tithe a portion of the commission, put a portion into savings for taxes, and the rest will go towards funding our Roth IRAs.

If my wife keeps this up, maybe I can be a stay at home husband.

I had my annual review today and received good marks, as well a 4.5% raise. This $2,880 raise brings my annual salary to $69,030.

The raise was a bit lower than I usual receive because I will be getting another review, and hopefully another raise, in April. They are doing this in an effort to get all employee’s annual review dates back to their date of hire anniversary (April for me). I had received a promotion a couple of years ago (in January) that threw my annual review date off from of my date of hire.

I was updating my work calendar for 2008 (holidays, paydays, etc.) and noticed that I will receive 3 months of 3 checks in 2008. This discovery was a nice surprise.

I get paid every two weeks, which usually results in 2 months with 3 checks. But, in 2008 it works out where there will be 3 months with 3 checks (January, July, and December). This “extra” money will go towards paying down our 2nd mortgage.

I call this “extra” money since our budget is based on my wife and I each earning 2 paychecks a month. I thought by chance my wife might also be getting 3 months with 3 checks in 2008, but it turns out she will be getting her standard 2 months with 3 checks.

My wife just received a $491.22 commission check from her new job as well as a $158.78 mileage reimbursement check. It’s amazing how she is able to pull in some extra money almost every month.

We plan to use $350 of the money to help pay down our 0% interest credit card. Our goal is to have this paid off by the end of the year. The remainder will be put into savings and a portion will be given to our church. Beginning in 2008, we will use her commission checks help us pay down our 2nd mortgage.