What Is the Average Retirement Age?

People in the USA purchase German, Japanese and other foreign make autos whose workers have much more generous retirement and health benefits. These same workers vote against similar benefits for their own American workforce! This surprises me since we place ourselves in a position of subsidizing benefits for foreign workers, which we do not receive! Go figure!

So what is the average retirement age for a male?

retire at 62 or earlier and then live another 30 years? no wonder the economy is so screwed up.

Let's reverse Roe Vs. Wade and save the 20 percent of kids from being aborted. The world will benefit morally, government and social security will be infused with more tax money being thrown in the kitty! Social Security is saved!

Well I retired at age 51 after figuring out at age 30 that I could make more money owning my own business than working for someone and earning a wage. After all, sticking it to my customers and employees is how you make your money.

After 20 years it paid off and now I own two large homes, four vehicles, a large fishing boat and travel to Europe and Mexico once a year with my wife on shopping sprees.

My only regret is that I wasn't more aggressive in how I did business. Had I been, I might have retired like my uncle who was in the same business and retired with over 20 million dollars in the bank. Oh well, live and learn.

i retired at 56 -- best thing i ever did. i live in the desert and don't go to town but every three months. but anyway i felt that if i went past 62 and kept on working i would be paying my own wages, i figured it out that i would be in my seventies before i would see a leveling point.

i just quit work, loaded up my RV and went west, and ended up here in texas. for you who want to keep on working and those who have to keep on working, i am sorry that you are wasting your life working and saving uncle sam money.

Has anyone seen the statistics for retirement age broken down by private sector compared to public sector? If so where might this information be seen?

thanks

I retired at 50 because I could and love it. These stats that show early retirement equals early death reflect the fact that many retire early for health reasons. I would like to see the stats for early retirement corrected for health complications.

Why is it when I retire with a state retirement system I can't draw my social security. I paid this money in. why can't I draw it?

I read the article and I still don't know what the average retirement age is. I know what it was in 1910 and 2002 but I still don't know what it is now. Was this article written by a politician? Ask a question and get a bunch of facts but no answer?

A simple number would have worked but if you want to get fancy, a table or chart with life expectancy vs. demographics vs. gender and so on whould have worked but at least the question may have gotten an answer. I come out of this with an unanswered question. What *is* the average retirement age?

Significant difference between retirement age in 1910 vice 2002. Guess in 1910 you had to work as long as you could? I would expect, especially with the current financial situation, this number (retirement age) to trend upward.

Most of us are dreaming of early retirement, but some recent findings seem to indicate that people who retire early might also die early. People who retire at 55 are apparently two times as likely to die by 65, as opposed to those who continue working. I guess the need to feel needed and useful, and being connected socially is what keeps us going. Until recently the opposite was thought to be true.

Interestingly, when the retirement age was instated in the United States, it was not common for people to live much past that age. Now people can be retired for decades, which is part of the reason why Social Security is such a huge mess!