<prompt> Human: Allow me to elaborate. As a 17 Year old, I am one step away from entering the real world. To make it simple entering college soon in computer science. I live near Silicon valley and average starting salary is a nice 100k. However I am rather curious as to where that 100k a year will go. What kind of nice things will I afford? Is 100k a year not that hyped up to be or is it actually pretty nice? Thanks for your input.  <response>: As someone who makes 100k, its unfortunately not that exciting. I dont feel like I have a ton of nice things, but thats just my perspective. How rich you feel with a salary like that is going to depend on how much debt load youre carrying too. If you have another 100k in student loan debt, youre fucked. But if you have none, its much nicer. I take home about 60k after federal and state taxes, health insurance, and retirement contributions and I need to bump up my 401k contributions even more, honestly. Of that, I spend about 27,000yr on my mortgage. 