J.R. Whelan

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WSJ Your Money Briefing · How to Save Enough to Retire After a 60-Year Career · 20 Sep 2023 podcast

I was making $27,000 a year, pretty decent money for a 20-something back then.

And that's when I started putting some of it away for retirement.

I was fortunate enough to put aside 6% of every paycheck, and the company matched two-thirds of that.

In all, I'm on a path toward a 40-year career.

And if you're doing some quick mental math right now and thinking, yeah, 40 years sounds about right, good luck.

Because today we're talking about how to prepare financially for the very real possibility that today's young workers will be working and saving for 20 more years than that.

This is a special edition of Your Money Briefing for Wednesday, September 20th.

I'm J.R.

Whelan for The Wall Street Journal.

Welcome to the second installment in our special series on the 60-year career.

Last week, we discussed how a longer life expectancy and changing ideas about work-life balance are contributing to the expectation that many people, especially those just starting their careers, may be working longer than ever before.

That's a lot more years on the job, commuting, answering to a boss, and a lot of saving up for your life goals.

Now, there may be alternate paths.

We'll get to that later.

But for many of us, the big question is how to know when, at least according to your bank account, you can drop out of the rat race.

We'll hear from Surya Kalluri, head of the TIAA Institute, and WSJ retirement reporter Anne Turgason about that, after the break.

For ages, a typical career timeline has looked like this.

You join the workforce in your 20s, work for 40 years, and retire at about 65.

But if you're younger than, say, 30, odds are you'll be living a longer, healthier life.

And what you thought would be a 40-year career, or maybe even less, could wind up being a 60-year career.

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