Maybe it's because I am so used to getting paid the bare minimum, but the numbers look pretty good to me. Never expected myself to make more than 100K unless I start my own business, so 60K starting is, well, satisfactory.
60k a year works out (very, very roughly because of a lot of factors, like what state you're in, where you set your withholding, deduction for benefits, etc.) to around $3600/month take-home pay.
If you happen to have the avg vet student debt* of $120k, you are paying around $1300/month in loan payments (unless you do something like IBR).
So now your actual income is down to $2300/month. By the time you add in housing, car, food, health insurance, other insurance, utilities ....
.... it's a tight budget. It's by no means unsurvivable, but it's tight. Not much room for 'fun'.
Even then it might seem not so bad to you, but when you start thinking about things like buying a house, having kids, etc.... that salary and student debt combination won't leave you much wiggle room.
One of the issues I have with all the discussions about the economics of the vet industry, though, is that avg vet student debt number. If you read the fine print, that number is always an average *for students who have debt when they graduate*. So in reality, the true avg debt number is somewhat lower because of the number of students who have parents footing the bill. How much lower I don't know. One would suspect not very much, but....