I don’t really count employer match as savings — it’s not like I could spend that if I wanted to. I also don’t count my small pension as savings. Nor, for the purposes of this reply, am I counting cash I keep in the bank — only counting what we move into investment/529/retirement/iBond accounts.
So by that standard, we have been saving about 19 percent of our gross up to now. But we also just now both started qualifying for bonuses at our jobs, neither of which we have yet gotten, and we’ll likely save all the non-taxed portions of those, which will kick our savings rate up to around 25 percent.