Age 27 retirement
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Anonymous
| Hi everyone. I'm curious as to how much I should have in retirement around age 27. I know that the numbers vary but I wanted to know what you would say is about average? Thanks! |
Anonymous
| $100k |
Anonymous
| my husband and i are your age. we have around 200k in retirement savings combined excluding cash and brokerage savings and excluding real estate |
Anonymous
| You're doomed, OP. Hope you like the taste of cat food. |
Anonymous
| I had about $20k in tsp. Just turned 30 last month and have $38K in tsp now. |
Anonymous
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Uh, I'm 29 and only have maybe 15k in retirement. I do own a house, however, so it is my goal to ramp up contributions as soon as I have replenished savings.
I highly highly doubt many people outside this bubble have 100k! |
Anonymous
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Impossible to say.
We had less than 100k at 27 (which felt inadequate) and more than 5M a little less than 20 years later Keep saving and take the opportunities when they find you. |
Anonymous
| How long have you been working and what is your HHI? |
Anonymous
| Can you guys share how you got to o/a 100k by age 27? I am genuinely curious. When I was 23 at my first job I made 40k and needed pretty much every penny of it to live in this area and pay my bills. |
Anonymous
| By 30 you should have your annual salary saved |
Anonymous
| About 75% of one year's salary |
Anonymous
NP here. Have you both been maxing since the day you graduated undergrad? I am 25 and DH is 27 and we have $95k which I thought was not too bad... |
Anonymous
I didn't enter the job force until 25 after law school and bar since I went straight through. I've been working 4.5 years, and have $38K. My salary is $115K, but a significant portion goes towards loan repayment. It'll be a while before I get there! |
Anonymous
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Just keep going OP. It eventually turns a corner and starts to grow vs relying mostly on your contributions. The first few 100k are truly the hardest (plus we've had a huge run in recent years). At 27, DH and I each had around 80k (160k). Now 5 years later, we have nearly 500k combined. Incomes went up, we had living cost savings by getting married so we could throw more at it, matches, growth.
You'll be fine. |
Anonymous
Maxing each year along with 6% match and 4% match along the way has helped us out a lot. We got married when we were 21 and lived way below our means the first few years (shop at Target, expense all meals to our employers). Both of us in finance. We picked low cost Target Retirement funds - nothing fancy |