Thats why I  laugh at yhe ladies that throw out 2 to 5k a month. Very few guys are willing or able to pay those numbers.

then you need a new accountant.  Even if you lived in California or NY, you couldn't get to that kind of tax rate.

If you live in CA, and you're paying under $2K for rent/mortgage, you're most likely living in a hovel, since even divey apartments in bad neighborhoods charge $2K+ for a 2BR. Live someplace upscale, and you're looking at $3-5K/mo.

the sad reality is that the vast majority of these women do not have the financial knowledge to understand it. They have never been wealthy, have not spent a lifetime building and nurturing a personal fortune like we have, and have zero concept of how complex and costly it is to maintain even a modestly affluent lifestyle. All they understand is that seemingly huge $100k income number and their fantasies get fueled up.  It is, and will always be a constant struggle to adjust their fantasies to our realities.  It's one of the biggest reasons that Sugar Dating is way more challenging to navigate successfully than Hobbying.

Something I've never worried about. Btw, I stopped reading your post she. I read "all SDs would have done this"

A) this is Personal Budgeting 101. Anyone who needs this primer shouldn't be playing in the Sugar Bowl.
B) your POT SB already knows this and EXPECTS you to choose Alternate 1, 3, or your other 3. She doesn't really care where the money comes from.

1- As John_Laroche has already alluded above, I wholeheartedly concur with him that a POT SB does NOT care whatsoever as to what your source of "allowance" or its relationship to your over all gross income is. Simply put, you could be pinching from your kids' college funds, driving for Uber to make ends meet, stealing from your wife's 401K, etc; it doesn't really matter to them! Whether as to they are purely uneducated/undereducated ignoramuses or very sharp and devious money grabbers / gold diggers' it really doesn't matter because they are in this foray to pad up their own bottom line. In fact, the OP's reverse argument holds true in some cases whereby the POT SD tries to "justify" his budget in the 1-1.5K per month and then the clever and astute POT SB can work things backward in her mind to nail the POT SD as an "entry level" wannabe SD, simply because she can suss out that the POT SD is a 100K earner as opposed to his lofty profile claim of being a 500K per annum earner.

2- The 3-5K or at times the 5K+ per month POT SDs do exist in all walks of life, but for the sake of simplicity let's confine these "elusive" types to the realm of SA (there are more of these types IRL than we would know of who would never ever get onto a site like SA to expose themselves to potentially disastrous hacking and exposure scandals). Just like we had always thought that all guys on SA must be old, fat and fugly type of fellas (a theory which I dispelled on here by creating a fake female profile) there are also guys on SA who did not really pull themselves up by their own bootstraps from the ground upwards in order to fully appreciate the value of money and as to how hard it can be to accumulate true wealth. Those who are truly wealthy and who can be considered as the true captains of industry (I had mentioned Larry Ellison of Oracle in the past who used to be the biggest whale on SA which was not so much of a secret among the in-the-know people) would very unlikely dish out exuberant sum$ over what their own dotting and completely devoted PAs would earn! No that is not how it works with those guys! The SB will most likely get a pittance amount just to grease the squeaky wheels of their finances but will benefit from HUGE perks such as Micheline winning & dining, private or 1st-Class jetsetting, exotic vacations, glamorous galas and events, etc.

Then there are the guys who had been mid level management at some of our largest Corps such as Home Depot (I just pulled this name and I have no association with this or anyone from there who is or has been as SD!) who retires after putting in 20 years of unfloundering service, gets a very handsome retirement package, decides to cater to his midlife crisis by "leasing" himself a young hottie! He has never played this game before and this is the exact type of guy who also pays hookers 5K+ for a weekend of companionship before he learns the ropes. You find these mid level "wealthy" guys in all walks of life in these US of A, be it from the corporate sector, entertainment (say a guy behind the camera for instance), financial, legal, etc, etc...  

Those of use who have been in the grindstone of life ans have found our way into the vestiges such as TER, have most probably become way too wise to blow 100K annually on hookers, SBs and other paramours, but perhaps I'm just speaking for myself!