A ton because you don’t have time to go out, and likely will be single or functionally single, so it’s hard to spend on a SO. Usually women are the biggest suck of your income because they like to do activities, dinners, potentially gifts etc. If you are looking for a dollar amount, from my experience, taxes are about 30% of your earnings. I take home post tax 7k a month, and bonuses are prob post tax 3k a month for 120k post tax (this would give you roughly all in comp at 170k a year). I think people often advocate spending your salary banking your bonus.

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At least 50k a year easily. Some much more depending on bonuses / 20%+ annual stock market returns. Base salaries where they are now makes it easier to save.

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