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🌴 The Wealthtender Guide to Financial Independence & FIRE Blogs How to retire in 10 years with a five-figure income Anyone retiring before 50 would need to pick a more conservative withdrawal rate such as 3%. So if you are retiring before 50 and expect to live well past 80, the 4% rule does not apply.

If you had $1 million saved, you could assume to be able to withdraw $40,000 in your first year of retirement.Īnyone who is considering early retirement should be aware that the 4% rule was originally based on an assumption of a 30-year retirement. The 4% rule states that in the first year of retirement you can safely withdraw 4% of your portfolio. The second assumption is the one I take issue with. Assumption 2: You can live off the 4% safe withdrawal rate during retirement. Honestly, that is probably too high a number for me to be comfortable with but it is not completely unreasonable. It’s hard to predict whether a 5% return net of inflation is realistic. Assumption 1: Your investments earn 5% above inflation. There are a couple of assumptions in the math behind Financial Independence that you need to be aware of. Money Moustache Assumptions in the shockingly simple math: Reading the table below you can see if you save and invest at least 65% of your take-home pay, you would reach Financial Independence in just over 10 years. Money Mustache’s shockingly simple math that provides a direct relationship between your savings rate and how many years until you have reached Financial Independence and can choose to retire. In the original post, I did a simple reading of Mr.

In this article, I’m going to dive deeper into this question and tell you how to retire in 10 years while making less than $100,000 per year. Given the amount of traffic this article continues to get, it is certainly a compelling headline. I don’t consider it my best work, not by a long shot. The most popular article I’ve ever written was titled “ Want to retire in 10 years? Here is what you need to do”.
