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View Poll Results: What %age of household gross income do you save per year? include pre & post tax
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1-5%
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3.11% |
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6-10%
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2.59% |
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11-15%
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4.66% |
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16-20%
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7.25% |
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21-25%
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10.88% |
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26-30%
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13.47% |
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31-35%
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11.40% |
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36-40%
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8.81% |
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41%+
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37.82% |
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05-19-2012, 12:38 PM
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#41
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Recycles dryer sheets
Join Date: Jan 2012
Posts: 141
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Originally Posted by Mike1968
Roth IRA Max of $6,000 (includes catch-up contributions). Funded from Savings Acct.
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I don't think funding an IRA from a savings account would be appropriate to count when determining the % of salary that you save. You are just shifting assets you have already saved from one investment vehicle to another.
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05-19-2012, 12:41 PM
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Join Date: Jan 2012
Posts: 141
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I am amazed at the amount/percentage of income that people are saving here. I just did a back of the envelope calculation, and came up with 33% of gross (38% if you include employer contributions). No wonder the economy can't get any legs under it--all you guys savings 50%+ of income are killing us!! LOL
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05-19-2012, 01:04 PM
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#43
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Join Date: Aug 2010
Posts: 102
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Originally Posted by W2R
The OP can correct me if desired, but my understanding was that "gross income" means the original amount, which is indeed an illusory number for all of us.
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Illusory indeed. Ours: a bit over 70% of net and a bit less than 50% of gross.
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05-19-2012, 01:09 PM
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gone traveling
Join Date: May 2012
Location: Fairfax, VA
Posts: 209
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I'm 30, and we put away ~25% of our gross income. However, we're paying double mortgage payments to pay it down, on top of triple payments on student loans (which disappear this summer, yay!). I'm envious of those who dump 50% into savings. Reading these forums makes me feel like a schmuck, knowing that our income is 170k-ish. Living in a high-cost area is brutal though. Our modest 40yr old townhome was 400k! Cripes. We'll be getting out of dodge whenever we retire... hopefully cashing in on some equity. Unfortunately, our home is one of our main investment vehicles.
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05-19-2012, 02:01 PM
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Thinks s/he gets paid by the post
Join Date: Mar 2009
Posts: 2,985
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In our case the % went up this year. DW retired last year and we're saving the same amount of $ on less income . The plan is to save less and enjoy ourselves more. However, old habits die hard.
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05-19-2012, 02:05 PM
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Join Date: Jan 2004
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This thread started one on ERE.
What Percent of Gross Income Saved? « Early Retirement Extreme Forums
It's inspiring what some on ERE save (though some figure it as net instead of gross). Without including P of the P&I, and not including extra principal payments, I saved 32% of gross (line 22 on the 1040).
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05-19-2012, 03:12 PM
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#47
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Join Date: May 2007
Posts: 1,251
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Originally Posted by Spanky
We max out on our 401K ($50,000) and Roth IRA ($12,000).
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How do you do that? My plan allows me to only do 15% a year up to15,000 and my employer contributes profit sharing up to 15,000.
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05-19-2012, 07:18 PM
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#48
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Join Date: Jan 2004
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Sounds like a solo 401k.
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05-19-2012, 07:50 PM
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Join Date: Mar 2012
Location: Virginia
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I'm currently at approx. 31% but will soon pay off my house and then up it to roughly 50% for the time being. Unfortunately I really don't like my house/neighborhood so I'm itching to buy in another area and will likely spend more than this house and may finance some of it so the 50% may be short-lived. 
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05-20-2012, 04:58 PM
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Location: South Texas~29N/98W Just West of Woman Hollering Creek
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Since I retired several years ago, my "savings program" consists of transferring any cash over $1000 in my checking account each month to my savings account. I always do this after I reconcile the checkbook.
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05-21-2012, 12:02 PM
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Join Date: Aug 2011
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Originally Posted by Letj
How do you do that? My plan allows me to only do 15% a year up to15,000 and my employer contributes profit sharing up to 15,000.
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Some older Mega Corps allow After Tax contributions to the 401(k)s in addition to the more common Pre Tax contributions.
My Mega Corp allows up to 50% of Salary to be deferred into the 401(k) each year. The IRS limit of total contributions (currently $50,000/year in 2012) needed to be complied with. Only $17,000, however can be Pre Tax contributions.
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05-21-2012, 03:12 PM
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I am in the 41%+ category. Home is paid for and although I make a better than average salary, in alot of ways I live like a miser LOL. Best of both worlds. My car is 12 years old and I have no interest in replacing it for example. Works great, why would I?
I am hoping this will enable me to retire at 45 or at the very least enter the world of contract work at that age and ride that out until 50. There has to be some upside for living like this!
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05-21-2012, 05:20 PM
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Originally Posted by accountingsucks
I am in the 41%+ category. Home is paid for and although I make a better than average salary, in alot of ways I live like a miser LOL. Best of both worlds. My car is 12 years old and I have no interest in replacing it for example. Works great, why would I?
I am hoping this will enable me to retire at 45 or at the very least enter the world of contract work at that age and ride that out until 50. There has to be some upside for living like this!
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ha ha @ your user name 
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05-22-2012, 01:24 PM
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Join Date: Oct 2010
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I'm saving 38% but I'm retired. I double checked it because it seems so high but it is correct. When I was working I saved about 45% but then I had a mortgage to pay so that cut into what I could save. When I start SS it'll probably be back into the 45% range.
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05-22-2012, 02:09 PM
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gone traveling
Join Date: May 2012
Location: Fairfax, VA
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Originally Posted by veremchuka
I'm saving 38% but I'm retired. I double checked it because it seems so high but it is correct. When I was working I saved about 45% but then I had a mortgage to pay so that cut into what I could save. When I start SS it'll probably be back into the 45% range.
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How exactly does one "save" during retirement? Is your passive income high enough to pay for expenses and high enough to put 38% away? Nice.
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05-22-2012, 03:00 PM
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Give me a museum and I'll fill it. (Picasso)
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Originally Posted by bo_knows
How exactly does one "save" during retirement? Is your passive income high enough to pay for expenses and high enough to put 38% away? Nice.
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I answered similarly to veremchuka (#26) and for me the answer to your question is "yes."
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05-22-2012, 04:15 PM
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Join Date: May 2007
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It would be interesting to see what % people save based on income... Someone who makes $1m/year can easily save 50% of gross, but someone making $70K may have trouble doing that.
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05-22-2012, 04:27 PM
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Give me a museum and I'll fill it. (Picasso)
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Location: New Orleans
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Originally Posted by lightspeed
It would be interesting to see what % people save based on income... Someone who makes $1m/year can easily save 50% of gross, but someone making $70K may have trouble doing that.
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I was thinking the other way - - that the guy making $1M/year is probably in a much higher tax bracket than I was with just a five figure salary, so for him a bigger percentage is skimmed right off the top before he ever see it. But either way, I'm sure that individual financial situations and obligations probably vary tremendously. Imagine the difference between my situation as a single, and that of someone living on the same salary with a disabled wife and six kids to support, and/or alimony, or caregiver responsibilities for aged relatives.
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05-22-2012, 05:06 PM
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Join Date: Feb 2007
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Where are the negative % options? Since I retired 10 years ago the money is coming out - not going in!
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05-22-2012, 05:19 PM
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Join Date: Jul 2005
Location: N. Yorkshire
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Originally Posted by ejman
Where are the negative % options? Since I retired 10 years ago the money is coming out - not going in!
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I'm impressed by the retirees on this thread who are still saving. I'm certainly in the "negative %" club.
Here is a thread from a few months ago where some retirees shared their actual withdrawal rates since retiring.
http://www.early-retirement.org/foru...-wr-59518.html
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