<prompt> Human: So the IRS put out some aggregate information on 2016 taxable gross income reported by single people under age 26.80 earned up to 25,000. Another almost 16 earned 25,000 to 50,000. So thats collectively 96 of people in that age group who filed tax returns.About 3 made up to 75K, and the remaining 1 made more than that. That 1 is 185,000 people, so quite a few, though not a big percentage of the population. There are about 4 million people of any given age, i.e. 4 million 25-year-olds, roughly.1400 of them make over 1M in 2016. 45 made over 10M. So, not everybody is a Silicon Valley software developer making six figures, it just seems that way sometimes if you read a lot of posts here.  <response>: 25k-50k is too wide of a range. Theres quite a difference in making 30k and 50k. When youre making that much, an extra 5k is a pretty huge deal compared to the 5k between 75k and 80k. If youre at 25k, its barely livable and not enjoyable at all, while 50k would be a breeze to live off of for me. Im at 41k and its already easy to live off of. 