A good salary for a single lady?

Question

Come next year I'll be graduating college and entering the "real world" (which, btw, sounds completely overrated lol). The job I have in mind would make about $60,000 per year, and I imagine that if I rented an apartment for my first place away from home (besides my lovely little dorm) that included utilities and only sucked away about $1500 a month, I'd be okay. Then there's the car, and the insurance, and all that other wonderful tax chaos that my dad helps me with still, but anyways...I figure that having a $60,000 a year job would be okay for me if I was single and living a decently frugal life. Am I right, or is today's market a little different than back in the day when we still had "Life Issues" in middle school and they tried to teach us about this stuff?

Answer 1

hello - you will be ahead of the game.  take 20% of your salary off the top and put it into retirement fund of some sort and you will start to make money for your future while you can afford it.  good luck!

Answer 2

Yes, and you would be way ahead of a lot of other americans in this economy. Good for you.