Guess it's due to being middle schoolers but not liking someone and just rejecting them don't mean you have no emotions (unless he rejected her the most brutal way possible which I don't think at all because he was nice to her)
As far as I'm concerned, a net-salary of 60k$ is quite a good amount for a lot of us because it's the money you get after all the retentions. Female MC prolly wins double that amount or more.