While I was living in Seattle it was: $3.3k/mo for rent, like $500 utilities, about $1k for food (I was feeding me and another person, we ate out maybe once every couple months, I did go a bit fancy with our cooking), various things like gym and other stuff to keep my sanity brought it all up to about $5.5k/mo. My health insurance was through my work and I paid about $1.2k and they paid about $2k but that was all handled before I got my paychecks.
So in Seattle at least the answer is make at least $100k/yr before tax, don’t have kids, don’t have a car, be in reasonably good health, have a job that pays for most your insurance premiums, and never have a medical emergency. Or live in a house with 6 other people and dumpster dive for food. Or just go massively into debt.
While I was living in Seattle it was: $3.3k/mo for rent, like $500 utilities, about $1k for food (I was feeding me and another person, we ate out maybe once every couple months, I did go a bit fancy with our cooking), various things like gym and other stuff to keep my sanity brought it all up to about $5.5k/mo. My health insurance was through my work and I paid about $1.2k and they paid about $2k but that was all handled before I got my paychecks.
So in Seattle at least the answer is make at least $100k/yr before tax, don’t have kids, don’t have a car, be in reasonably good health, have a job that pays for most your insurance premiums, and never have a medical emergency. Or live in a house with 6 other people and dumpster dive for food. Or just go massively into debt.