By age 50, the non-productive years make up only 40%. The non-productive childhood years have a massive impact when you're 25, because if you start earning at age 20 your non-productive years are 80% of your lifetime. The years a person lives without earning (childhood) are factored into the equation because of the emphasis on age. It is almost completely inaccurate for people under age 40, because it assumes people are earning and saving money every year of their lives. Unfortunately the formula is skewed toward the authors' target market, that is to say the Baby Boom generation. The formula is designed to present a ratio between earnings and savings with some emphasis on lifetime habits as opposed to incidental habits. I think when we are younger these calcs work better then we look at where we should be down the road and if we are on track! Lord knows I hardly know anyone else my age near the net worth we have. Actually, I have a 5-year plan to increase my net worth by about $120k in just 5 years, assuming my current wage, so I may just catch up. If I do this my equity should be $340k at the least at 40, assuming some wage growth. Especially since we can move anywhere just about and pay cash for a house.Īnyway, looking at these calcs I think a more beneficial way to look at them is do the same calc for 5-10 years down the road, estimating what your wage would be. I know the house is not certain and all, but us getting into a house was crucial to wealth and we bought smart hoping for appreciation, I don't think that should be completely discounted. Without our home equity it may be $150k or so, so then we should be way behind. I actually rank really high, my calc shows $220k, but our net worth is about $420k.
If you have not been out of school long you obviously have not had a lot of time to save.
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Plus I tend to put last year's salary in those things because I have had quite a few years of $40k income ($73k today) and yet we had a couple of years of close to six figures with 2-incomes so it is all over the board for us. I think it might be a little skewed for you - that is a pretty high wage for such a young age. Actually, sounds like you are on a GREAT start. I just read the article cited by MonkeyMama atĭon't get freaked out by those calcs - you are young. How does everyone else rank on the UAW, AAW and PAW scale? asdf123 I want to transform myself into at least an AAW, but it seems like there will be a long road ahead. So much for feeling like I'm on the right track.now I just feel a compelling need to save. It is fairly discouraging to see that I'm a UAW and to notice that my net worth isn't even close to an AAW for my income/age. With a net worth of about $33,000 I rank as a UAW. If you net worth is about equal to the number you are an AAW. This, less any inherited wealth, is what your net worth should be.
Multiply your age times your realized pretax annual household income from all sources except inheritances. To determine if you are a UAW, AAW, or PAW you apply the following formula: I haven't read the book, but, know from online information that it describes under accumulators of wealth (UAW), average accumulators of wealth (AAW), and prodigious accumulators of wealth (PAW). Then I thought about that pesky net worth () calculation presented in the book The Millionaire Next Door. This lead me to feeling like I'm on a good track, being at age 25, with about $42,000 saved for retirement.
The article says, according to Fidelity, the average 401(k) account balance is $62,000. 0I just read the article cited by MonkeyMama at