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WookieMan says

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Damn wookieman. How did you get that much in 401 k

20 k x 30 years about 600 k plus growth. so what n how are you investing 401 k to grow to be 5 million

Yes you are going to need professional help; and I am not talking financial. You are going to be in a mess since you are locked into todays fixed income prices. Buckle up....

Tenpoundbass says

for Retirement, the 401K is the worst way to have it tied up

Yes, that money should have been in either a Roth IRA a/o Roth 401K.

And then, she can take whatever dividend income she earns and pay it out as non-taxable cash.

So in that situation, even an amount like $150K isn't so bad. If you average out the dividends from BHP, Annaly(NLY), Lumen(LUMN), Rio Tinto (RIO), Altria (MO), British-American Tobacco (BTI), National Grid (NGG), Verizon (VZ), ATT (T), and Manulife Financial (MFC), it's some 9%, closer to 10%+ during bearish lows.

Using a simple dividend reinvestment calculator, with additional $7K (Roth IRA limit) per year (I'm assuming she knows nothing about Roth 401Ks w/ higher limits), keeping cap gains down to -1% per annum and then an 8% basket dividend yield. The results aren't so bad in 9 years if cap gains are minuscule for the decade ahead.

Year Balance Additions Growth Dividends Reinvested End Balance
1 150,000 7,000 -1,500 12,000 12,000 167,496
2 167,496 7,000 -1,674 13,399 13,399 186,216
3 186,216 7,000 -1,862 14,897 14,897 206,247
4 206,247 7,000 -2,062 16,499 16,499 227,681
5 227,681 7,000 -2,276 18,214 18,214 250,614
6 250,614 7,000 -2,506 20,049 20,049 275,153
7 275,153 7,000 -2,751 22,012 22,012 301,410
8 301,410 7,000 -3,014 24,112 24,112 329,505
9 329,505 7,000 -3,295 26,360 26,360 359,566

So by her retirement age, she's getting $2K/month from the above, $900 from her pension, and some $1.6K from SS.

That's $4.5K per month of tax free income, which for an ordinary person is $54K/yr or $70K/yr+ (when taxable)

GNL says

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WookieMan says

To truly retire and enjoy it I'm guessing $10M is going to be needed for someone my age.

I agree.

So, maybe 1% of retirees?

What's the point in retiring unless I can do it in Caligulan splendor?

I thought the idea is to take the job for a few years and meet a pilot or businessman, get married, and live happily ever after (or at least have a very lucrative divorce). Same concept as NFL Cheerleader. Either that, or you buckle down and live frugally; then retire pretty well, actually.

I'm not knocking the profession, but this just seems to be a case of failure to have long-term goals and a realistic outlook. At least this "profession" has large upside in the early years. Fast-food workers and 1/2 the college graduates are in far worse shape in short term and no better shape after.

Article is useless without knowing how attractive she might be, even at her age. And article is back.

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