Good start man!....now go account for the other 75% of my rough list.

Guess you dont save for retirement, college, or plain old savings? Hope your flying job never goes away. Long term plans? A paid off house is a LARGE percentage of a retirement egg. You are a renter. Anyhow, I guess lets not worry about the future?

Guess your company pays 100% of medical/dental/vision? My share at a Fortune 5 department was approx 8k/yr for a family of 4. Do you have life insurance?

Guess you dont put $5/gal SoCal gas in your 8mpg truck? (1k+/month?) Guess you dont register it (is that now approx $1000 in SoCal?) does a Dodge pickup ever break? need tires? (tap that savings we never accounted for?)

Guess you dont have Xmas, vacations, socialize? do you buy clothes? Are these optional items these days?

When did your $2700 extra dollars run out? might wanna cancel the yacht club social with the Joneses and forget hiring the farm workers, in fact you might to ask them if you can fill in during strawberry season.

But of course this back and forth can go on all day and accomplish little....just try to have a grasp of reality before you play the underpaid pilot martyr denouncing all the frivolous SoCal spenders in todays crazy world....

You are currently only accounting for about 1/2 of what most normal people need to have what is considered a decent living......and I disagree 100% - the missing items aren't "choices" - they are required basics.

Again, to each his own is likely the best way to leave it....