$100k today is worth the same as a $50k salary from 2000. >However, taxes on $50k are 30% but remain at 60% for $100k.
Your 2025 takehome on $100k after taxes is the equivalent of $20k in 2000.
Housing, however, is 5x what it was in 2000. Add in the tax rate difference, and that's 10x.
So, in 2025 dollars, if you make $100k, then in 2000 if you would have paid the burden of $900 for housing, but today you're paying the equivalent burden of $9,000 per month.

What "felt" like $900/month in 2000 "feels" like $9,000 today.