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Personal Finance. Learn about budgeting, saving, getting out of debt, credit, investing, and retirement planning. Join our community, read the PF Wiki, and get on top of your finances! Founded 2009 · 21.8M members · text posts only

21.9M members. The best post we have captured here reached 75.5K upvotes, which works out to 3 per 1,000 members.

3peak upvotes per 1,000 members
21.9Mmembers
75.5Kbest post
7.1Kmost comments
5.6Kposts we track

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What actually lands here

The mix of post types among everything we have captured. Posting a link where almost nothing but images lands is wasted effort, and this is the fastest way to see it.

57% 40%
Text 57% Question 40% Link 3%

The topics it labels

Flairs are the community's own categories, and the closest thing a subreddit has to telling you what it wants.

Other 294 Retirement 251 Investing 230 Debt 179 Planning 174 Saving 139 Housing 120 Budgeting 112 Credit 106 Auto 98

What the ceiling looks like

The biggest posts we have captured here. Links go to the original on Reddit.

You are not "family" to your company. If you have an opportunity to better yourself, take it. They will do the same when it comes to cutting ties wit…

↑ 75.5K 💬 596 text 2020

Warning: AT&T applying "customer loyalty speed upgrades" without customer consent

↑ 62.2K 💬 2.4K text 2018

If you’re ripped off by Comcast (or any internet company), Wells Fargo (or any bank/student lender), or Aetna (or any health insurance company), here…

↑ 56.2K 💬 2.3K text 2018

U.S. Breaks Up Fake I.R.S. Phone Scam Operation -- 21 people sentenced for up to 20 yrs, 32 in India indicted

↑ 55.5K 💬 830 text 2018

I made a spreadsheet for people who don't know how to budget!

↑ 50.8K 💬 1.6K text 2019

Stop Spending Money on Food! -- BUY A CROCKPOT

↑ 46.2K 💬 4.2K text 2017

Quick Reminder to Not Give Away Your Salary Requirement in a Job Interview

↑ 44.4K 💬 3.6K text 2018

Bank of America just imposed a new $60 annual fee on their previously free personal savings account.

↑ 42K 💬 3.5K text 2017

For everyone shopping on Amazon's Prime Day: "savings" from sales aren't savings if you weren't already planning on buying the item.

↑ 39.5K 💬 1.9K text 2018

In most cases, it will cost your employer far more to replace you than it would to give you a raise. So ask firmly.

↑ 37.1K 💬 2K text 2018

Communities its size

Within four times the member count either way, so the comparison is fair. Sorted by upside.

r/personalfinance, in numbers

Answered from the posts ViralHunt holds from this community, not from Reddit's own about page.

What is r/personalfinance?
r/personalfinance ("Personal Finance") describes itself this way: Learn about budgeting, saving, getting out of debt, credit, investing, and retirement planning. Join our community, read the PF Wiki, and get on top of your finances. It was founded in 2009 and has 21.8M members.
How many members does r/personalfinance have?
r/personalfinance has about 21.9M members. ViralHunt has tracked 5.6K of its posts; the biggest reached 75.5K upvotes, which is 3 per 1,000 members.
What is the most viral post on r/personalfinance?
"You are not "family" to your company. If you have an opportunity to better yourself, take it. They will do the same when it comes to cutting" reached 75.5K upvotes and 596 comments in 2020, the highest score among the posts we hold from r/personalfinance.
What subreddits are similar to r/personalfinance?
Communities of a comparable size we track: r/dankmemes, r/therewasanattempt, r/BlackPeopleTwitter, r/me_irl, r/nextfuckinglevel, r/WatchPeopleDieInside.
What kind of posts do best on r/personalfinance?
Of the posts we hold, 57% are text posts and 40% are question posts.
When is the best time to post on r/personalfinance?
Across 5.6K timestamped posts we hold, the slots whose posts averaged the highest score are Saturday at 08:00 UTC (4.9K avg upvotes), Tuesday at 13:00 UTC (3.9K avg upvotes), Thursday at 07:00 UTC (3.6K avg upvotes). The busiest day is Monday. For Reddit as a whole, see the best time to post on Reddit page.
How many upvotes does a post need to reach the top of r/personalfinance?
The 20th-best post we hold from r/personalfinance has 28.5K upvotes, so that is roughly the bar for the top twenty. We captured 789 posts from it in the last 30 days.

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Every figure here is what ViralHunt has captured from r/personalfinance, not everything the community has ever posted. We deliberately do not publish an average score: our sample is weighted toward a community's best posts, so an average would be flattering and wrong. Peak per 1,000 members is computed the same way for every community listed. See how we measure.