If you have any kind of useful degree, you can make a whole lot more than 60K a year right out of college or graduate school (especially grad school)
What planet do you live on? I want to move there.
Wow! What a coincidence, I was just talking about this very subject, except that we were slanting it form the hippys of the 60'2/70's rebelling against the establishement. Now that they are the establishment they absolutely hate it when rebelled against.....
When I came out of law school in 2000, freshly minted JD's were making $165,000 a year (more, in some cases) at large law firms. Accountants could expect to make $50K plus to start. MBA's could make as much as lawyers, plus the potential for a lot more, very quickly (DLJ was promising its new MBA's $1,000,0000 over their first two years). I knew people from the Cornell Hotel School that were landing high 5-figure salaries with just an undergrad education. Engineers can certainly expect to make well above $60K in well less than 20 years. Nurses will certainly make more than $60K within 5 or so years of getting out of school.
Hell, even a guy who starts his own landscaping company with not much more than a high school degree can make a boatload of money.
I could go on, but I think you get the point.