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Will i be able to retire at 80% at 56?
04-17-2008, 07:54 PM
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Dryer sheet wannabe
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Will i be able to retire at 80% at 56?
Hi everyone. I am 47 years old. When I retire at age 56, I will get 55% of my salary on a defined pension plan. I will continue contributing $18k to my 403b , $10k to my 457B and maximum amount to my Roth IRA until age 56.
Presently I have $280k in my retirement plan. The money is in Vanguard with a 75 to 80% stock to bond ratio.
Will the extra money I have and will continue to contribute to my retirement give me the other 25% I need to reach 80 %?
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04-17-2008, 08:02 PM
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Welcome, silvia. You might want to check FIRECalc to answer your own question -- see the link at the bottom of the page. It will use historic stock returns and other details to help you get a handle on things.
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04-17-2008, 08:03 PM
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Hi Silvia. I'd recommend you go to FIRECalc, read a little about how that program works, then plug in your numbers. That should give you a good indication whether your current nest egg plus planned savings will result in the amount you are seeking.
Cross-posted with Rich...what he said.
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04-17-2008, 10:10 PM
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Do the math - FireCalc helps - if there's just no way it can come up to enough, there is one number that you do have control over to make the ER calculation work - that is, you can always change your plan by adjusting your future lifestyle financial needs downward to make a happy comfortable ER possible. (provided you have medical needs covered) This results in a more modest ER than you might have hoped for, but ER nonetheless. Though I am not ER yet (another year or so) I believe there is an intrinsic value just in the fact of being ER that can't be put on a spreadsheet.
If I may wax philosophical for a moment:
I've realized that at age 49, we have to accept (& get past) the truth of what what we did or didn't do in our past (things that were both within & out of our control) has affected our financial situation now that we are hitting our 50's.
Some folks can be very happily retired on 30K (today's dollars) a year.
This is a very individual tradeoff decision some of us have to make - Do you want to retire at 56 with what you'll have accepting whatever more modest lifestyle that provides? Or continue being a wage slave (assuming you're not self-employed) until it reaches your ideal at whatever age that works out to be?
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04-18-2008, 12:42 PM
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Don't assume you need 80% of your pre-ER income. Analyze your income over the next few years to come to a good understanding of your actual needs - only you can identify that. Then add things like healthcare - if you don't have retirement healthcare - etc.
Your tax rate in ER may be much lower than your current tax rate. You're putting money away each year - those are outflows that you will not have after ER.
I read Bob Clyatt's Work Less Live More when I started this journey and I found it helped me a lot. There are other books too on the subject which will be time well spent.
All the best.
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04-18-2008, 04:53 PM
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Dryer sheet wannabe
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additional information
Upon retirement, my house will be paid off. Presently, the house is worth about 900k in CA. I won't need to worry about paying enormous fees for healthcare as I will be moving back to Canada. I have dual citizenship.
Will this change the picture of 80% pre-retirement income?
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04-18-2008, 09:54 PM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by silvia
Hi everyone. I am 47 years old. When I retire at age 56, I will get 55% of my salary on a defined pension plan. I will continue contributing $18k to my 403b , $10k to my 457B and maximum amount to my Roth IRA until age 56.
Presently I have $280k in my retirement plan. The money is in Vanguard with a 75 to 80% stock to bond ratio.
Will the extra money I have and will continue to contribute to my retirement give me the other 25% I need to reach 80 %?
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Assuming a return rate of 7%, your investment will grow to $964,743 by age 56. If we assume a safe withdrawal rate of 4%, you can determine whether you can reach 80% by the following calculation:
0.55x + 0.04*964,743 = 0.8x
x is salary at age 56.
If the left side is greater than the right side, that means that you will have enough funding to provide 80% of salary needed for living expenses.
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04-19-2008, 07:07 AM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by silvia
Upon retirement, my house will be paid off. Presently, the house is worth about 900k in CA. I won't need to worry about paying enormous fees for healthcare as I will be moving back to Canada. I have dual citizenship.
Will this change the picture of 80% pre-retirement income?
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Probably. Health insurance is about 15% of my retirement budget.
But rather than trying to find a "percentage of current income", you should develop a budget in retirement, based on your best estimate of actual expenses. I suspect if you polled the folks on here, that "percentage of current income" would vary between 50% or less (downsizing, moving to a low-cost area), and 150% or more (extensive travel, buying a sailboat). This is an area where one size does not fit all.
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