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Subject:
What are retirement benefits worth in terms of salary?
Category: Business and Money > Employment Asked by: nmegill-ga List Price: $7.00 |
Posted:
19 May 2005 08:54 PDT
Expires: 18 Jun 2005 08:54 PDT Question ID: 523313 |
My fiance is 45 years old and has the following retirement plan at her current job. Each year she works, an additional 1.65% of her annual income will be paid to her for the rest of her life, starting at age 65. In other words, if she earns $50,000, for every year that she completes at work she will get another $825 of annual income for the rest of her life, starting at age 65. She is thinking of switching jobs to a company that does not offer a retirement plan. She won't lose benefits she has already accumulated. My question: What is her retirement "worth", in other words how much extra salary would she need without a retirement plan to "break even" with her existing retirement plan? Perhaps an equivalent question is: at age 45, how much would an annuity cost (paid for in full) that will guarantee $825 per year of lifetime income, starting at age 65? |
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Re: What are retirement benefits worth in terms of salary?
From: vballguy-ga on 19 May 2005 10:19 PDT |
I don't know that the market expectations, risks, costs, etc of market annuities- but if you want some math that might get you close, take a look at using excel. Assuming: Life expectancy of 95 years (starts paying out at start of age 65 for 30 years) and an interest rate of 5% You plug those into the PV function in excel and you get a value of $12,682 - that is the value of a 30 year annuity that would pay out $825 a year for 30 years at 5% interest Take the 12,682 (cost at age 65) - and assume that to buy it now at .05% interest, it would cost about $5,000.($4,800) - again use the PV function with a future value of 12,682 at 5% So you have to make some assumptions but you can guess about 5k a year with the above assumptions. |
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