Last time I read the number was 12,000: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/07/02/AR2006070200733.html http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-d

Last time I read the number was 12,000: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/07/02/AR2006070200733.html http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/07... I must say, I got by with 12k (what I made in 2004), but if any emergency would have happened I would have been in trouble. 60k is very comfortable here in Texas. I also know some very miserable millionaires who are depressed no matter how many pills they take.