Exactly the same.
I have never understood these types of financial comparisons.
As above, they are completely unrelated and would be quite meaningless to us as ours would be to others.
+1. If I were to try to compare someone else's number to mine, I would probably need to match the following for their number to be meaningful to me.
- What is their net worth that they can tap for retirement spending, along with pension and SS benefits? This is the biggie. As some pretty solidly in 7 figure territory, spending numbers from someone in 8 or higher figures, or 6 or lower (unless pension+SS is high) really doesn't apply to me.
- Same marital status?
- Similar age? This might influence activity and health care expenses
- Own or rent?
- Do they have a mortgage? How big? How many years left?
- How large of a house, which could influence utilities, upkeep and repair. Age of house matters too.
- Are they counting taxes from Roth conversion? How much?
- How does where they live compare to mine in cost of living?
- Similar vacation expenses to me?
- How much gifting do they do, compared to me?
- Any kids dependent on them?
- Do they replace cars more or less often than me? New or used?
- Do they have a boat and/or RV? Vacation house?
- Paid or subsidized medical plan?
- Do they eat out often, or mostly at home?
And so on. Most of these can result in enormously different spending amounts from mine. Some people are just giving a number, which was all that was asked in the OP. Meaningless to anyone else. Others break it down some, but probably not enough, and it wold be a lot of work to adjust their numbers to yours.
20 years down the line, is someone going to go broke from spending too much, and are they going to moan that John and Jane Doe from e-r.org spent that much, why did I go broke spending the same amount?
Some have said these numbers encourage them to spend more. I don't see how, without knowing the above, but if they are sure they have room to spend more, the "Blow that Dough" thread seems more relevant. They might find ideas on what might bring value to them.