Whoa. Let's not forget that 80k/year puts a person among the top 0.78% richest people in the world. [1] Just offering a bit of perspective.

[1] http://www.globalrichlist.com/how.html

Depending on where you live that can be considered to be in the higher scale as far as pay grades go - and obviously in other places it might be lower or average. You can't only go by what people are paid where you live.

You have to realize that in Quebec, Canada, that's actually a high-level salary.

If you are living in NYC, nah.

I don't know what you consider high paying but to me that seems like high pay