Given that the typical American saves next to nothing, that isn't really a fair comparison. All my figures "should" be doubled - "should" being in quotes because they really shouldn't be doubled except for comparison purposes.
Proportionally, I spend about the same as the typical American on housing and food - the two biggest items.
The biggest differences:
- Education (+29pt): I spend about 10x on education (32%, although averaged out throughout my life, it's probably not so bad.
- Travel (+10pt): I spent 10% on travel. It looks like typical people don't travel at all?
- Entertainment (+2pt): The big difference is that my main entertainment cost is skiing, whereas most people enjoy movies, TV, etc.
- Transportation (-8pt): The typical American spent 14% on transport. I spent 6%. Breaking that down further, my car expenses were 4%, compared to 12.6% for the typical American. That's a pretty huge difference.
- Healthcare (-6pt): I had a "Cadillac" health insurance plan so I basically spent zero instead of 6%.
- Housing (-2pt): Surprisingly, despite living in a city that's believed to have a higher cost of living, my housing costs aren't too crazy.
- Utilities (-1pt): Yay for low electricity rates in Seattle!~
- Other (-16pt): For some reason this data only sums up to 84%. Where the other 16% goes? I have no idea.
