See What the Average American Has in Retirement Savings Right Now

Aug 10, 2018, 05:52 PM

There are a variety of decent retirement savings benchmarks out there. How much other people your age have saved isn’t necessarily one of them.

After all, age is just one factor in how much you should have saved for retirement, and it assumes you and everyone else who hit their Sweet 16 in 1999 will also retire at the same time.

Even so, it’s natural to wonder how much Joe around the corner has in his IRA, or whether Betsy in the marketing department is maxing out her 401(k).