What amount do you save per month?

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Not in an investment vehicle but savings?

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In this context, $0 I guess.

I have an emergency fund/savings but it's static and I don't add to nor take away(hopefully) at this point.

Everything else goes into retirement funds(401k, IRA), 529s, taxable brokerage, etc.

I guess I don't see the point in having a dedicated amount of money each month that goes into a savings account to sit there unless it's an emergency fund building or saving for a purpose(down payment mortgage, vehicles etc.)
If I'm not saving for a purpose it's going to go into some type of investment vehicle.

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Zero Savings is investments. Once you hit where you want to be for an emergency fund, there is no more "savings"

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This.

But to add some flavor to the discussion, I maintain 6 months of basic living expenses in a money market fund. I recommend clients have at least 3, and then up to 12 depending on income stability.

Perhaps counterintuitively, many retirees need the lowest amount of emergency cash given the fact you can’t exactly get fired from SS, pensions, portfolio income, etc.

Roughly $500 a month. When it gets to a certain point I take a chunk and pay off a loan. Repeat.

When I was single, roughly $3K per month, which eventually went into a Roth, stock, or other investment.

After being married with one kid and two step-children, and all this inflation: -$2,500 a month.

Several thousand a month probably. I’ve never really looked into it.

Wife and I both max out our 401k’s then I have another $600 month going to Edward Jones to back door my to Roth every year or I’ll just leave it it that account and fund the Roth through my checking.

Rest of the money was just sitting in checking and savings earning nothing every year. I usually end up getting a pretty high balance then go blow it on cars, ATV’s, guns, watches, pool, vacations then build it back up to do it all over again.

I finally opened a capital one 360 account so I’m earning 4.3% on about half but I’m trying to get my wife to move the rest and us just keep around 20k in her checking and 20k in my checking to pay bills out of.

So to answer your question I have no fricking clue Sometimes it could be $4,000 a month and sometimes it could be $20,000 per month.

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60% of monthly pay into investment account

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That is an impressive amount.

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put $600 a month into my savings at all times. By the time it builds a nice chunk, it is also usually time for either a newer car, roof, AC unit, replanted the pool…etc.

It usually hovers between $20k to $50k depending on timing of big ticket expenses.

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That sounds more like car payments, repair bills, maintenance costs, etc. than savings.

$4500

But that includes for 401k, individual brokerage, rainy day/ emergency and travel

$700 into stocks a week and $100 to Ibond weekly on auto. These are in addition to my retirement accounts. Also got $50,000 in a HSA making 5% now.

I max my 403b and backdoor Roth IRA on top of this and also have a 7% deduction for pension.