How Much To Save For Retirement vs Income
You will need about 70% of your pre-retirement income to maintain your standard of living in retirement. The percentage of your pre-retirement income which social security replaces varies by income level. Social security benefits replace nearly 70% of pre-retirement income for people with career average earnings of $12,341 while it replaces around 23.8% of pre-retirement income for people with career average earnings of $120,418.
Individuals with higher average earnings need to provide more income in retirement and therefore need a higher amount of retirement savings than lower average earning individuals.
Assuming a retirement account needs to provide the required retirement income for 35 years with a 50% probability and a 3% real (adjusted for inflation) return. The account would need to have the following values at retirement.
Pre-retirement Income Account Value Multiple of Pre-retirement Income
$12,341 $7,580 0.61
$22,215 $99,970 4.5
$49,366 $351,000 7.1
$78,985 $670,000 8.5
$120,418 $1,175,000 9.8
1) https://www.ssa.gov/oact/NOTES/ran9/an2017-9.pdf
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