It's not huge. That's bills together with all of your everyday spending. It's certainly possible to get that down to less than $1000 a month but you can easily spend $1000 a month without doing anything extravagant.

Food, insurance, gas, water, electricity, student debt, etc. At least by half? Come on. Let's be real.

You might want to save, but there's no need to be a total miser on any >100k salary.