# How much money should you be getting monthly in retirement?

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**Created:** [May 30, 2025, 1:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-much-money-should-you-be-getting-monthly-in-retirement/1019004 "2025-05-30T13:32:11Z")\
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**Author:** ![doreen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/858c86/32.png) [@doreen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/doreen)\
**Post date:** [August 6, 2025, 12:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-much-money-should-you-be-getting-monthly-in-retirement/1019004/61 "2025-08-06T12:48:06Z")

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Yes, but the post you were replying to mentioned

> [@Wesley\_Clark](#):
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> single people who lived frugal lives and never had children.

If a person lived a frugal life pre-retirement life to end up with a 7 or 8 figure nest egg, it would be really unusual for them to want a post-retirement life that required 5-10 million dollars. There’s a reason that every now and then you read about a janitor or gas station attendant or teacher who wore clothes held together by safety pins , who always parked far enough away from their destination to not have to feed the parking meter , who didn’t get the hearing aids they needed - who dies with a million dollars (or more) ) in the bank or stocks to be left to charity. That has nothing to do with what they wanted to do in retirement , or even really with wanting to be a philanthropist. Donating less money earlier very possibly would have done the charity more good. There was something else that caused that.

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**Author:** ![RivkahChaya](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rivkahchaya/32/8919_2.png) [@RivkahChaya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RivkahChaya)\
**Post date:** [September 1, 2025, 11:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-much-money-should-you-be-getting-monthly-in-retirement/1019004/62 "2025-09-01T11:12:08Z")

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nevermind

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