{"id":131762,"date":"2025-11-13T21:04:26","date_gmt":"2025-11-13T21:04:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/131762\/"},"modified":"2025-11-13T21:04:26","modified_gmt":"2025-11-13T21:04:26","slug":"how-your-savings-compare-to-the-average-retiree","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/131762\/","title":{"rendered":"How Your Savings Compare to the Average Retiree"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

How much will you need to retire, how much does the average person have saved and how does your nest egg stack up<\/a>?<\/p>\n

The 2025 Northwestern Mutual Planning and Progress<\/a> study found that Americans think they\u2019ll need $1.26 million to retire comfortably, but most aren\u2019t on track to save enough and more than half expect to outlive their savings.<\/p>\n

No one number is right for everyone, and the same dollar amount can buy two very different retirements depending on variables like your health, location, lifestyle and retirement age. However, it can be useful to examine what average people actually have saved, rather than what they expect to need, to see how your savings measure up<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Watch Out: Avoid This Retirement Savings Mistake That\u2019s Costing Americans Up To $300K<\/a><\/p>\n

Read Next: 5 Clever Ways Retirees Are Earning Up To $1K Per Month From Home<\/a><\/p>\n

Fidelity qualifies its data reports by noting the challenges of estimating average retirement savings. That\u2019s because many people contribute at least some of their savings to vehicles and investments that aren\u2019t exclusively designed for retirement planning, such as the 401(k)s and IRAs.<\/p>\n

They include:<\/p>\n

With that in mind, the average values of 401(k)s, IRAs and other retirement-specific accounts offer valuable insight into how your savings compare to the typical American.<\/p>\n

Learn More: How Far $500,000 in Retirement Savings Plus Social Security Goes in Every State<\/a><\/p>\n

Your place in your financial journey plays the biggest role in the size of your savings. Recent data from two industry giants shows how average retirement savings vary by age.<\/p>\n

The financial services company Empower<\/a>, which has $1.8 trillion in assets under administration, reports the following decade-based data on retirement savings in the U.S.<\/p>\n

Note that the median is substantially lower than the average throughout. Since a small percentage of ultra-high-net-worth savers can artificially inflate the average, the median \u2014 or middle number \u2014 can provide a more realistic benchmark.<\/p>\n

Decade<\/p>\n

Average retirement savings<\/p>\n

\u00a0 \u00a0 Median retirement savings<\/p>\n

20s<\/p>\n

$115,162<\/p>\n

\u00a0 $36,812<\/p>\n

30s<\/p>\n

$249,774<\/p>\n

\u00a0 $91,128<\/p>\n

40s<\/p>\n

$545,424<\/p>\n

\u00a0 $213,645<\/p>\n

50s<\/p>\n

$970,570<\/p>\n

\u00a0 $441,611<\/p>\n

60s<\/p>\n

$1,148,441<\/p>\n

\u00a0 $539,068<\/p>\n

70s<\/p>\n

$994,140<\/p>\n

\u00a0 $432,043<\/p>\n

80s<\/p>\n

$787,424<\/p>\n

\u00a0 $326,960<\/p>\n

The following generation-based data is from Fidelity<\/a>, which manages $16.4 trillion in assets under administration. Note that the combined averages of IRAs and 401(k)s roughly align with the median savings cited by Empower at each generation\u2019s corresponding decade(s) over age 30.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"How much will you need to retire, how much does the average person have saved and how does…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":131763,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[114,268,85,46,266,267,6300],"class_list":["post-131762","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-personal-finance","tag-business","tag-finance","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-personal-finance","tag-personalfinance","tag-retirement-savings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131762","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=131762"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131762\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/131763"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=131762"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=131762"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=131762"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}