How much should we be saving for retirement?My husband only works, I am a stay at home mother of four children ( I worked for 8 years as a lab manager before having children). How much should we be saving for retirement? He is 35 years old, I am 36 years old. We currently max out his 401K at 15% of his pre-tax salary. We also save 10% post tax into an annuity type account (life insurance also). When I use retirement calculators, they usually say we should be saving only 5% of our pre-tax income actually since we started at age 26 or so, but I believe that this is only for 1 person, and we are actually saving for both of us. The Yahoo retirement calculator says we should have ,000,000 in all based on 8% return. Should this be ,000,000 instead for 2? We have no debt except for a ,000 mortgage with 9 years left. None of our friends or family save as much as we do, but are we really going overboard here with savings? Or is it better to save as much as we can now and ease up later when our children are in college? Mail this post
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