Comments on: How Big Is Your 401K Balance?

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sun, 21 Aug 2011 12:52:12 +0000

57800 at 34 market is real bad had 80000 or so nothing to do but increase precentage of employee withdraw to 35%

By: john smith

john smith — Tue, 10 May 2011 16:17:26 +0000

40 year old and started 401k 4 years ago. The current balance is 65K (roth 401K).

By: Brian

Brian — Sun, 03 Apr 2011 14:25:13 +0000

36 years old working for 13 years $256,000.00
Social security will be no more if and when I hit 62 or could be 70 by then. I hope to be prepared and able to retire comfortably one day.

By: Kevin

Kevin — Tue, 01 Mar 2011 23:17:38 +0000

I invested in mutual funds when I was young (like 22) and in the Navy. I was building up a nice balance but I cashed out to buy something (dumb). Later in life when I was something like 29 or so, i started in my 401K. I am 42 now and have about $205K. When i met my wife 7 years ago, she didn’t contribute to her 401K as she “couldn’t affort it”. I made her contribute 6% right away! Now she is up to $75K. I really hope the markets continue to perform over time as Social Security will be gone soon.

By: coley123

coley123 — Fri, 21 Jan 2011 15:11:06 +0000

$170K in 12 years…

By: B Clark

B Clark — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 03:55:26 +0000

Am 66 yrs old, retired this year. My 401k account balance is 3.2M, half was made over the last year, doing what I consider very smart trading. Some others would call it risky, including my wife.

By: valeriejean11@hotmail.com

valeriejean11@hotmail.com — Mon, 15 Sep 2008 18:58:24 +0000

okay. how do you know what is in your 401k? I feel like an idiot!

By: Rich Konzervatif

Rich Konzervatif — Fri, 13 Jun 2008 22:26:13 +0000

I see that you cens, uh, removed my informative statement.

It’s no wonder that liberal constituents never learn and people like me turn them green with envy and jealousy.

So much for tolerant liberals. C’est la vie…

By: Cary

Cary — Sat, 01 Mar 2008 15:49:07 +0000

Well this article and bloggers seem to be a bunch of boaster loosers at a quick glance but I could be judging incorrectly!

It’s great that people are saving but don’t fixate of the balance. The reason I bring this up is point is that preople in this blog have frazes like ‘my balance is $x so I dropped my contribution rate so I could ???? spend more/leave employment/false taxable investment and I’m only X years old.

Just before you say I’m bitter and old, you cannot be more wrong in age or savings status however I know what retirement is and how long it will be.

Just remember the younger the savings the better, as any finacial advisor will tell you, you will be; However being googled eyed about your 401K balance should wait until you are closer to retirement

By: Belinda

Belinda — Tue, 26 Feb 2008 03:08:31 +0000

I peddle my sorry, sagging ass to crack addicts on the UES of Manhatten, and I’m setting this cash asside for my retirement. Also, I am thinking of bidding on Barney’s Nixon potatoe (see above post). That investment will certainly do better than any 401k with today’s stock market.

By: Harold

Harold — Fri, 22 Feb 2008 03:31:18 +0000

I have an apple core that Elvis threw in the trash just before he died. Also, I used to have a job at Yankee Stadium cleaning toilets in the clubhouse. I have one of Roger Clemens’ old jockstraps. I will be selling these items and investing the proceeds for my retirement. I also have $21.49 set aside in my Roth IRA. I’m quite a catch ladies…..

By: Barney

Barney — Sun, 17 Feb 2008 05:14:24 +0000

I have a 1 cent stamp and an old potatoe that resembles Richard Nixon that I’m trying to sell on e-bay. These are my retirement assets. My wife is a crack whore and brings in about $65 a week hooking at the local gas station. Fill ‘er up for $5. Our son works as a barker in a traveling carnival. He’s in line for a promotion to ticket seller for the Tilt-a-whirl next spring. Daughter has 6 fingers on her left hand and has a lip fingus. She sells maps to movie star’s homes and on weekends helps Mom at her gas station post.
Our future looks almost as bright as Louis, Jack and Alex who posted here.

By: ms

ms — Sun, 03 Feb 2008 01:14:53 +0000

how do I check my current 401k balance
is there an online facility where I can regularly check my current 401k balance. I left US 7 years back and want to withdraw my 401k money

By: Joe

Joe — Thu, 20 Dec 2007 04:24:17 +0000

I have 30 soda cans to return for deposit. That combined with my savings account gives me about $149 put away for my Golden years. I am 63 years old. Needless to say, I will work until I die.

By: Louis

Louis — Wed, 28 Nov 2007 01:51:39 +0000

I have 968k in my 401k. I’m 55. I am an investment banker. I just inherited $14 million from my mothers’s estate. She was an attorney. I own properties on both the East and West Coast, as well as a villa in Rome Italy. I own half of a Major Leagure baseball team. My wife is a physician (dermatolgist). She is 50, she has $4.3 million in retirement accounts. I will be retiring this year. Wife wants to keep working, she earns $750k per year. (We have twin sons, both in Medical school. One is going to be a Dermatologist, the other a Pediatrician.)
Quite frankly I don’t know how the people who have posted on this site will make it with their meager amounts saved for retirement. Even with what my wife and I have set aside, I’m still concered about our lifestyle post retirement. We may have to sell the Villa in Rome. I guess we all have to make sacrifices.