Anonymous
Post 01/20/2012 16:17     Subject: s/o - if you're a fed, how much do you have in TSP & how old are you?
37, 8 years of service, $140k.
Anonymous
Post 09/13/2011 17:32     Subject: s/o - if you're a fed, how much do you have in TSP & how old are you?
12 years, $300K. About $150K in a 401(k) plan at another, non-fed organization. 50 years old.
Anonymous
Post 09/13/2011 15:47     Subject: Re:s/o - if you're a fed, how much do you have in TSP & how old are you?
Did any of the PP put more than 20% or additional amounts? I am wondering if I should put away more than the limits...41, about $160K and about 10 years of services.


What do you mean by more than 20% or the limits? Do you mean outside of the TSP, like in an IRA? I don't have anything in an IRA. The TSP limit is $16,500; I don't know if there's also a percentage limit but I don't think so.

I have always put the max in my TSP, but through 2005, instead of a dollar amount limit, it was limited to a percentage of salary. So in previous years, when I took a lot of unpaid time off for maternity leave, I contributed very little. I would have liked, when I returned to work, to increase my contributions to get as close to the max as possible for the year, but when the contribution was limited to a percentage of salary, it was impossible to do that. Once they changed it to a fixed dollar limit in 2006, I started contributing the maximum dollar amount ($15K - $16.5K). But I have a couple of years pre-2005 where I was out on extended LWOP for maternity and I contributed barely anything in those years.

Anonymous
Post 09/13/2011 10:51     Subject: s/o - if you're a fed, how much do you have in TSP & how old are you?
42, 16 years, $272,000. I maxed my contributions most years. No additional contributions. Wish it was more, but the C fund has taken large hits in those 16 years which have been hard to recover from.
Anonymous
Post 07/25/2011 11:10     Subject: Re:s/o - if you're a fed, how much do you have in TSP & how old are you?
I put in the max for the past 15 years.....
Anonymous
Post 07/24/2011 12:21     Subject: Re:s/o - if you're a fed, how much do you have in TSP & how old are you?
Did any of the PP put more than 20% or additional amounts? I am wondering if I should put away more than the limits...41, about $160K and about 10 years of services.
Anonymous
Post 07/24/2011 12:12     Subject: s/o - if you're a fed, how much do you have in TSP & how old are you?
37 yo, 4 years as fed, $87K in TSP. This thread is good motivation to keep savings through the daycare years!
Anonymous
Post 07/24/2011 08:19     Subject: Re:s/o - if you're a fed, how much do you have in TSP & how old are you?
41 years old, 1 year as a fed, $156K in TSP and other retirement accounts.

Wow, you long time feds have saved a lot!
Anonymous
Post 07/21/2011 10:16     Subject: Re:s/o - if you're a fed, how much do you have in TSP & how old are you?
Anonymous wrote:OP here. I should have included mine. I am 41 with 12 yrs of service & have about $220K in my TSP.

I wonder if I can possibly get close to $475K by 48 like PP. Probably not!


I have 20 years in with the TSP. You can do it!
Anonymous
Post 07/21/2011 07:38     Subject: s/o - if you're a fed, how much do you have in TSP & how old are you?
40, 3 years in, $70k
Anonymous
Post 07/20/2011 22:56     Subject: s/o - if you're a fed, how much do you have in TSP & how old are you?
$605k ... 56.
Anonymous
Post 07/20/2011 21:42     Subject: Re:s/o - if you're a fed, how much do you have in TSP & how old are you?
OP here. I should have included mine. I am 41 with 12 yrs of service & have about $220K in my TSP.

I wonder if I can possibly get close to $475K by 48 like PP. Probably not!
Anonymous
Post 07/20/2011 16:17     Subject: Re:s/o - if you're a fed, how much do you have in TSP & how old are you?
48, $475,000
Anonymous
Post 07/20/2011 16:11     Subject: Re:s/o - if you're a fed, how much do you have in TSP & how old are you?
43 about 200K in TSP. Currently a GS 15-7 with 11 years in.
Anonymous
Post 07/20/2011 14:24     Subject: s/o - if you're a fed, how much do you have in TSP & how old are you?
I am early 40s, and the other thread got me thinking about how much I should hope/expect to have in my TSP by 50-ish. I am a FERS employee.