We in the group making over 100k and saving under 50%. Here is the cliff notes version for our chosen path:
We are saving 35% on a pretax income of 150k.
Tax and HDHP Health Insurance - 27.7k
Fixed expenses are 30k - (mortgage, tax, insurance, rental property, cable, telephone, gym, and utilities)
Variable expenses are 32k (Food, travel, clothing, gas, auto maintenance, pets, etc...)
Home renovation expenses 8k
Savings 52k
We have everything broken up in a detailed spreadsheet that is updated once a month. The crazy thing is, we could substantially cut down on our quality of life by not taking any vacations (7k), no going out to dinner (4k), canceling gym memberships (2k), stop drinking good wine (2k), and finish renovating the house (8k) and save an additional 23k per year and put us at a 50% SR. This would cut the amount of time to FI from 16 years 10 months, to 13 years 6 months.
We are 29 and 30. I have no plans to quit working and enjoy my job. My wife will quite her corporate job and pursue her own passions in another 3-4 years. If I work an extra 3 years and 4 months I get:
14 - Trips to Europe
14 - Trips to Central or South America
730 - Meals out
1550 - Bottles of good wine
14 years of Yoga + Climbing gym memberships
and a very nice fully renovated house 2 miles from our workplace.