I lost my job as a corporate strategy director 3 weeks ago. This is the type of profession where you work yourself out of a job. I expect to work again, but the market where I live seems pretty dry at the moment so it freaks me out from a retirement perspective (because I'm not contributing).
With all of this additional time, I am running scenarios in my head for fun to see what would happen if I never worked again (besides my wife shooting me).
EDIT: Increased retirement expenses $8k as I left out the property taxes on my US home
Below are my estimates on assumptions, assets, debt, expected expenses, and SS.
- Can you give me a view on my financial health when I retire?
- Does my retirement math work? What am I missing?
- Does anyone need a corporate strategy director? 😀
Assumptions
- My wife and I are 45. We want to retire in 15 years (~2041) in this scenario
- We live in the USA, but intend to retire to São Paulo, Brazil (We have assets there and my wife is Brazilian so citizenship is not an issue)
- My wife grosses ~$125k per year
- Assume I make no more money until I retire
- Assume my wife continue to grow salary at 3% and contributes maximum to 401k
- Assume market growth at 5%
- My rental property nets $500/month after taxes and HOA fees
- Assume I retain all properties but can sell my US property if I really need to
- I have not taken social security into consideration because I'm not sure what our benefit would be
- I am not sure what my effective tax rate should be at retirement – copilot tells me 15%?
Assets – Today
- My 401k – $700k
- My wife's 401k – $230k
- 529 for my 8 year old daughter (not to be used for retirement) – $78k
- HYSA – $93k
- Primary home (USA) – Worth $500k / mortgaged
- Secondary home (Brazil) – Worth $180k / owned
- Rental property (Brazil) – Worth $120k / owned
Debt obligations – Today
- 26 years left on primary home – $321k @ 3.6% ($1590/mo)
- Property tax – $8,000/year
- No other debt
Annual retirement expenses for 2 people (in Brazil ca 2041)
- Healthcare – $12,000
- Mortgage (until 2052) – $19,080
- Property Tax (US Home) – $8,000
- Food – $6,600
- Transportation – $4,200
- Property tax/ HOA – $4,800
- Home Maintenance – $1,800
- Utilities -$3,060
- Dining Out – $5,400
- Travel – $12,000
- Entertainment – $5,000
- Misc – $5,000
- Total – $86,940
Future Value of Retirement Accounts (used copilot to quickly calculate this so could be wrong)
- $700k @ 5% over 15 years = $1.46M
- $230k @ 5% + future contribution @ 5% over 15 years = $1.1M
SS (copilot estimated based on our incomes)
Claim at 62 / ~$55k/year (both)
Annual Retirement Income
4% on retirement accounts = $105k
SS = $55k
Rent = $8,700
Retirement Math
Total Pretax Income = $168,700
Tax obligation @ 15% = $25,305
After Tax Income = $143,395
Annual Expenses = $86,940
Net Income = $56,455
Lost my job – Running retirement exercises for fun
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There are some calculators out there. Fidelity has a retirement planning tool. I also use ficalc.app to model things as well, though not sure how great it is for growth, I’m usually modeling my FIRE numbers which is where I’ll stop saving for retirement.