One of the survey’s biggest findings is that 61% of those 50 and up are worried they won’t have enough money for retirement.

Among AARP survey findings: 61% of Americans 50 and up are worried they won’t have enough money for retirement. And only 21 percent of people have a retirement plan.

An increasing number of people are worried that they won’t have enough money to live comfortably in retirement, and men aren’t as financially secure as they once were, according to an annual survey from AARP.

The AARP Financial Security Trends Survey, conducted in January and released in April, included interviews with more than 8,300 Americans over 30 across every state in the country. Conducted by NORC at the University of Chicago, the survey aims to analyze the financial experiences and attitudes among Americans.

One of the survey’s biggest findings is that 61% of those 50 and up are worried they won’t have enough money for retirement, Indira Venkat, senior vice president of research at AARP, told USA TODAY on Wednesday.

And if you break those numbers down even more, one in five of people who have not retired have no savings at all, Venkat said.

  • pacoboyd@lemm.ee
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    8 months ago

    This was more of a comment on the poster above feeling like he’s gonna be irrelevant when he’s older. That’s not true, at least in my experience, if you are passionate about IT, your knowledge will age like fine wine.

    I didn’t mean to imply that you should have all the experience right out of the gate, just that you may start out thinking you know all that and will be irrelevant by 30, but that’s not the case. Wait until you find out all the stuff you don’t know! (this is a good thing, not bad)

    • LaunchesKayaks@lemmy.world
      1·
      8 months ago

      Ah okay. I misunderstood a bit lol. I work at an MSP, so I learned that I don’t know jack shit on day one. Every single work day I am met with something new and wacky to fix. The horrors persist, but so do I.