If you’re looking for pointers, one inspiring woman by the name of Caitlin Boston has got your back.

Boston, a 35-year-old tech worker from Brooklyn, recently posted a video conveying her pure unadulterated joy at paying off student loan debt. Which might sound a little extra, until you learn the entire sum was an eye-watering $200,000 that she had amassed since 2009 for both her undergraduate and graduate school loans. Definitely cause for celebration, we think you’d agree, which explains the purple spandex, dollar sign costumes and sassy dance routine.

“I did it all by my single freaking self, as in, no family passing me $$$ at any point,” she wrote in the subtitles. “It was hard but I did it and I did it alone because I am a f****** boss.”

But Boston’s video wasn’t simply an impromptu celebration. When you pay closer attention, you realise that she was able to pay off her tuition debt because she asked for a pay rise, after learning that she was being burnt by a sizeable wage gap as a woman of colour. How did she do it, you ask? With one simple question.

This heroic woman paid off her student debt by asking her male co-workers this one simple question