s/o - if you're a fed, how much do you have in TSP & how old are you?

[Anonymous]

42, 9.5 yrs as fed, 200K.

[Anonymous]

49 years old, fed for 21 years, $554,000.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:50 yrs, w $425k. Always pretty maxed out ( btw the amount for 2013 is $17,500 ). I did take a loan out about 15 years ago. I also could have been more aggressive.

FERS sucks compared to CSRS.

Since you're 50, your max is $23,000, with the $5,500 catchup.

[Anonymous]

63/29/850K

[Anonymous]

52 years old/fed for 23 years/$757,000

[Anonymous]

38/6/$300k

[Anonymous]

50, 18 years, 630K

[Anonymous]

39, 7 years of service, 30K

[Anonymous]

41, 15 year fed, about 390k in my TSP. No roll over ; I have some additional accounts. I maxed out in my early years but I haven't for past seven years or so.

[Anonymous]

why is this thread so popular? simply look at the returns from the tsp website. some people put 0, some people put the max every year. some people pick the best fund and some pick the worst fund. so you can make your own assumptions and do the calculation for each scenario pretty easily.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:41 years old, 1 year as a fed, $156K in TSP and other retirement accounts.

Wow, you long time feds have saved a lot!

Yes, Feds in general are big savers compared to your average American. This is true even if you control for Income.

[Anonymous]

Are any of you taking advantage of the Roth option?

[Anonymous]

51/27/~700k

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:39, 7 years of service, 30K

Dang man. What happened?

[Anonymous]

6 years of service, 28, 62k.