One of the pieces of career advice I've given my kids is: when your pay goes up, be very cautious about changing your lifestyle to match it. Going up that ladder is easy -- going back down is painful.
Ideally, your standard of living should cost you a fraction of what your income is.
I was making $x in 2020 as a CRUD developer in Georgia.
I got a job at Amazon and was making $x+$100K
I was Amazoned last year from a remote position. By then, I had paid off debt, downsized from my big house in the burbs to a condo one third the size in state tax free Florida and could easily live off of $x- $30K even though I’m making around $50K more than I was making 3 years ago.
Guess how much I stressed when Amazon started Amazoning?
Ideally, your standard of living should cost you a fraction of what your income is.