7 Minutes To Calculate A Real Retirement Savings Goal

The other day I wrote about a simple formula to calculate what you need to save for retirement in a post called “What’s your retirement number?”,

It’s the million dollar question… How much do you need to save for retirement?  In that article we calculated your retirement needs in literally 1 minute.

But that level of simplicity doesn’t tell the whole story.

Today, we’re going to dig in a bit deeper.

7 Minutes For A Better Retirement

If you remember the other day, we simply took your monthly expenditures in retirement, and did a little calculation.

This was the formula:  Monthly retirement expenses multiplied by 12 months = Annual Expenses

Annual Expenses Divided by 5% = Needed Retirement Savings.

Easy as pie.  But we left some stuff out.

Do you really need $1.2 million to retire?  When doing our calculations, we figured you’d need $1.2 million to retire.

That’s a lot of money!

The reality is, when you calculate your retirement number, your actual needs might be a bit lower.

Let’s stick with our original assumptions. You need $5,000 a month or $60,000 a year to retire.

In the other article we only focused on what you’d need to save. We ignored other income streams like Social Security.

Will You Receive Social Security?

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