throwaway0516

two kids..swimming, dance etc. They all add-up.

ya..usually $100K-$125K is the range of our savings. I don't it is really a huge amount of savings when earning over $500K.

Public schools are no good in SV, so either I have to spend $4500 as rent in a good school district or spend low in rent and send kids to private school. And $3000 is the cheapest you can get in a decent location in SV

We make a little over $500K and I would not say we are struggling day to day, but we won't have so much saved as people expect. We lead a modest life (live in an apt, drive a compact) and live in SV.

Monthly House rent is $3000, Kids schools is $2400, kids activities is $2000, groceries and eating out is $1500, travel expenses averaged is $1000, misc expenses (gas,utils,shopping,car maint) is $2000. We do not have any debt.

We pay over $160k in federal/state income taxes and save $38k in 401k, $15k in 529 accounts annually.

Most of these expenses are regular day to day expenses we can't cut down on to save more.

500k is pre-tax. The federal and state income taxes would be about $150k.