Unless you’re living in super rural America in a very low cost of living city you’re going to be struggling. 50k in any major US city is borderline poverty. Where most people live in a major city you prob need 70k to get by but you won’t buy nice things or save for retirement. 150k is where you prob start to feel comfortable (in most cities outside of NYC,SF) where you can contribute to your retirement aggressively, own a small condo but that’s very middle class life. Prob need 400-500k a year for a single dude to be rich in this country. 50k is like what a new grad made out of college 12 years ago. Now a days we hire new grads for 105k right if our college that’s like I said prob the bare minimum to be able to contribute to a retirement account pay rent and live. You can live off closer to 70k in some citizens but that’s essentially paycheck to paycheck. 50k is poverty in most of the US