By the age of 30 if you dont own anything like a house or apt and have no kids while single i would say abt 35k-40k . Now ofcourse there are alot of factors like ...did you pay for your own schooling > ? College and Masters ? Do you have loans to pay which dont allow you to save as much ? I didnt so i had no excuse but to save . Also how good is your job ? If you are pulling in 80-100k and dont have 30k in the bank , you really have no excuse . There was an MTV show on TrueLife how people who had good jobs that they eventually lost , and mean really good jobs at a young age , while they didnt save anything . Once those jobs were gone , they lived check to check cuz they never saved much . If you are pulling it in , MAKE sure you save it too .
I think no matter what you are trying to do , you should be able to save something . I dont get how people who say they live check to check go out all the time on weekends and more , smoke cigarettes , eat out all the time and cant budget . You dont need a financial advisor for common sense .