Shockingly, I’m from the place the language was shat into existence from, England, which also happens to use the variety of the language which is still most widely taught worldwide
Is it a lower register thing there? With my limited knowledge of lower register BrE, I can kind of hear it.
Btw, a lot of "weird American things" are just older British things.
Kind of, it’s somewhere in the middle, I actually think “I’m on 20k” is what I’d say the most often talking about this.
Also forgive me for getting wound up about this, I just don’t like being told I’m objectively wrong by closed minded Americans who think they speak the only correct form of the language.
I gotcha. Thank you for explaining!
I totally hear ya. My fellow americans do be saying foolish things sometimes 
That’s alright, you really do find differences in the most random of places between our two varieties of English.
And same with my fellow countrymen (not least myself).
It doesn’t sound natural, but people say things oddly all the time… I can imagine someone saying this about a salary scale: _for every year experience, you get moved up a column. I’m on 10k a year_.
Or as shorthand for _I’m [living] on 10k a year._ which might be used for some kind of passive income or retirement income as opposed to earning/making money with a job.
"I am on" means "I make" or rather, "my salary is" in this context.
The addition of "like" also means "roughly". So if you made say, $11,500 per annum, you could say you "are on like 10k a year"
Yeah you may want to because that is not a normal saying in the US. People will know what you mean but they’ll think you’re taking in a round about way.
I just thought I'd remind you since you saw the need to comment that it wasn't an idiom in the USA. Despite nothing in my comment indicating I am American. I'm also not European. Because the anglosphere covers a third of the world.
UK perspective: I'd either say 'I earn about 10k per year' or more formally 'My salary is about 10k per year'.
(£10k per year would be extremely low for context but just used the same number as the original question.)
Didn't realise this sub was mostly American but here in the UK it's normal to say "I'm on like 10k a year "
Yeah I know, it’s a reasonably fair assumption to make that a sub called “English learning” would actually have English people in it
🤨 america big
U.S.: neither of those would sound natural here.
How would people say it in America?
Just say you “make 10K a year.” That’s really the most natural way to say it.
The second one is fine though?
The first two, I initially interpreted to mean he was trying to say something about running 10k's.
No, not the first one or the second one. Both are awkward
The second one is fine? Is this some weird American thing?
Where are you from that "I am on like 10K a year" sounds normal?
Shockingly, I’m from the place the language was shat into existence from, England, which also happens to use the variety of the language which is still most widely taught worldwide
Is it a lower register thing there? With my limited knowledge of lower register BrE, I can kind of hear it. Btw, a lot of "weird American things" are just older British things.
Kind of, it’s somewhere in the middle, I actually think “I’m on 20k” is what I’d say the most often talking about this. Also forgive me for getting wound up about this, I just don’t like being told I’m objectively wrong by closed minded Americans who think they speak the only correct form of the language.
I gotcha. Thank you for explaining! I totally hear ya. My fellow americans do be saying foolish things sometimes 
That’s alright, you really do find differences in the most random of places between our two varieties of English. And same with my fellow countrymen (not least myself).
It doesn’t sound natural, but people say things oddly all the time… I can imagine someone saying this about a salary scale: _for every year experience, you get moved up a column. I’m on 10k a year_. Or as shorthand for _I’m [living] on 10k a year._ which might be used for some kind of passive income or retirement income as opposed to earning/making money with a job.
In my experience "I'm \[living\] on 10k a year" doesn't necessarily mean passive income.
Agreed, but it kind of emphasizes your total expenses rather than how much you are bringing in.
"I am on" means "I make" or rather, "my salary is" in this context. The addition of "like" also means "roughly". So if you made say, $11,500 per annum, you could say you "are on like 10k a year"
Maybe it’s a European thing, but no one says “I am on” to mean “I make” in the US.
Yeah they do
What region/dialect? I'm from the east coast and I've never heard this.
Nope.
Ok guess I'll go re-learn my native language then 🙄
Yeah you may want to because that is not a normal saying in the US. People will know what you mean but they’ll think you’re taking in a round about way.
I’ve heard multiple US content creators and whatnot say “He’s on like” “I’m on like” to mean making money
It isn’t common
People speak English outside of the USA.
Wow, almost like that’s what I said in the first words of my sentence!
I just thought I'd remind you since you saw the need to comment that it wasn't an idiom in the USA. Despite nothing in my comment indicating I am American. I'm also not European. Because the anglosphere covers a third of the world.
he never stated anything about you being american, i’m pretty sure he’s just referring to himself and saying “as an american” no one says that
Are you Australian? Because I heard an Aussie said “I am like on….” in a clip.
Close! Kiwi
I also think it works and I'm also a kiwi
I never said you were an American. You sure you know English?
UK perspective: I'd either say 'I earn about 10k per year' or more formally 'My salary is about 10k per year'. (£10k per year would be extremely low for context but just used the same number as the original question.)
The first one doesn't work, the second one is very natural
The second one sounds alright, the first one is just incorrect
In most of the UK, second one is common. I had no idea Americans would find it so unnatural
The latter most one is very natural to me