Tbf your income is also very not normal. The article is a much more typically family income - their combined income is still less than your individual income by

Tbf your income is also very not normal. The article is a much more typically family income - their combined income is still less than your individual income by 50k! Because they are two people, they’re doubling up on things like the 401k deduction. You make far, far more than them. The “average” American would be able to get pretty close to what the article is doing. But probably shouldn’t and won’t because you can also see they’re leaving a pitiful amount for themselves to live on in the moment.