Current retirees' average age of retirement is 61, which is considerably lower than the age at which workers still on the job say they'll finally throw in the towel. (Photo: Shutterstock)
American workers still on the job say they anticipate retiring at age 66, pretty much what they've said for the last few years. But it's a rise over previous decades, with age 60 being the anticipated point of retirement during the 1990s.
According to a Gallup poll, Americans' anticipated retirement age has stabilized between 65 and 67 since 2009. But before that, it was a tad lower, averaging 64, between 2002 and 2008, and even lower than that, at 60, in two Gallup surveys conducted in 1995.
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Marlene Satter
Marlene Y. Satter has worked in and written about the financial industry for decades.
