“I make a hundred k a year” [closed]

abbreviations numbers

You are correct. K is short for kilo. 1K is one thousand, as in:

  • Kilometer: 1000 meters
  • Kilogram: 1000 grams
  • Kilobyte: 1000 bytes (actually 1024)

To say that you earn 100K means that you earn 100,000.

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