What is your annual cost of living?

How much are single, WSO reading adults spending each year? For responders, it would be to helpful to specify your region/city and include an estimate of your all-in total costs for everything (housing, utilities, car, insurance, clothes, food, bar tab, vacations, etc.). I'll go first:

Region/City: Los Angeles
Annual COL: $60,000
Age: 25-30
Kids: no

 
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Apartment: 3.5k 

Car, insurance gas: 1.5k 

Food/expense/other: 3k 

I'm in another HCOL city in the United States thats not NYC. A nice studio in NYC would cost 5k a month, so the COL of pretty similar since you don't need a car in NYC

Late 20s. 

I would rather be cheap, but have to spend this much at minimum for a decent dating/social life. Need to maintain a "successful" but not gauche image. 

 

Monthly numbers, not annual.

I'm a month to month guy....

 

Man, and I thought I was spending excessively. Feels weird to spend 6 figures on COL as a single person. 

Inflation is terrible though. Costs would be probably be around 60% of what they are now for the same apartment, car, food, etc. when I graduated in the mid 2010s. 

 

Los Angeles, 27-28 years old
 

Housing $2.9k / month

Car: $400 for loan and insurance

Everything else: probably average $3.5k per month

Add it all up, 81,600 per year. Total comp was $250k last year but hopefully higher this year. Should still save $70k after taxes based on the above, but trying to spend more on living life and may go as low as $60k in savings

 
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Love how your “Partying & Whores” budget tops your food budget.

 

21 year old college student

1k-1.5k/month credit card expenses between golf, gym, bar tabs and foodlucky enough to have my parents pay for my groceries, rent and food.

have like 14k saved so should last me until when I start my ft position. also planning on going to europe for 1 month after school and in between ft job starting, no clue how much that will cost. 4-5k?

 

Single 27

Intermountain West

Housing:  16k

Car/Car Insurance/gas/maintenance: 2k (car is paid off)

Everything else: 17k

COL: 35k

EDIT:

80k base + deferred incentive in projects

 

City: Houston

Income: 110,000

COL: 50,000 (estimated)

Notes:

Single, don’t nickel and dime but also not blowing money on stupid things. No student loans, have a car monthly payment and pay above average in rent.

Obviously the COL is based on my projections but have been tracking it really closely over the past 3 months so will be surprised if I am off by more than +- 5,000.

 

An intriguing thread. 

Region: Southwest USA

Age: Early 30's, no kids, single. 

Income: Around $200k.

Annual COL: I've averaged about $50k over the past few years. This year is going to be closer to $60-65k. I splurge on hobbies and save on things I don't care about (cars, big house, etc.) 

Housing: $28k

Groceries: $7k  

 

Age 27, HCOL city

26k Rent + Utilities

30k everything else 

So total 56k 

TC is 140k give or take a few depending on bonus 

Often feel i am not saving enough, but honestly feels like i'm spending the bare minimum to live alone in a SF

I do max out my 401k 

I do go to restaurants pretty frequently and go out on weekends. Otherwise not much of an extraneous spender. My apartment is a shitbox but don't see myself moving until I can afford a baller pad. Everything in between seems like marginal increase in value for a lot more money. 

 

24 y/o (An2)

HCOL in Northeast

Rent/utilities: 2900

CC bill (using as a catch-all for clothing/subscriptions/going out/travel/misc.): try to keep under 2k but ends up being 2500-2750

~67k/year

Edit: TC ~200k

 

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