Most tech workers spend more than 80k a year? Spend, not earn? Are you serious?

People arguing with you are not serious.

Excluding NYC and Silicon Valley, definitely easy to spend $40-50k depending on where you live ... a lot harder to spend the rest ...

Most tech workers in the Bay Area spend $80k/year on housing and commuting expenses, easily. Rents of $5k/mo and mortgage payments (piti) of $7k or more can easily account for almost all of that.

The bay area is a huge outlier when you talk about "most US tech workers"

Right.

The average tech worker family income in the US is well past 50k. Looking at how poor the savings rate is, I would suspect they are spending a lot more than 80k.

For their family? Absolutely.

Even outside the bay area.

Many of us have no desire to retire at 30 and live a life of poverty. To do what? Play video games all day?

Much rather work for longer, and do something...

TIL that making more than the median family in America is poverty ::rolls eyes::