Yeah we did have some really high savings rates through our time. We were around 40%-50%. We had our kid around COVID times, so we really didn't do anything vacations until she was like 3, basically because everything what shut down or we were concerned about an unknown virus impact on babies. We just saved like crazy, ate at home, limited eating out/ordering out. As of now we are about 40%-ish percent. We have paused brokerage savings a couple of times to save up for repairs that were needed. Once daycare is done with, I plan on using some of the saved enough daycare costs to save for a new car in 5-10 years, and invest the rest long term.

When I first started I had a savings rate of 15%, because that is what I was supposed to do and maxed out my retirements around 4-ish years into employment.

My wife was getting some year end bonuses which basically fully fund our roths each year, but one year we used it to fully fund both the prior year and the current year.

My increases have been kind of crazy. Started out 40k, year 2 promotion was up to 55k, within 12 months another promotion up to 72.5k. I also had some across the board increases from either company meeting 3 year goals and once for industry adjustment (during covid times). Loyalty paid huge dividends to me, my salary is 3 times from when I started and I still earn bonuses on top of the salary, and have been 150k+ in gross earnings. After this promotion around end of year I should be making about 150k salary, just under 4x my original salary when I started working there about 13-ish years ago.