On this page is a BMI percentile calculator for adults 18 and older in the United States. BMI is a formula based on height and weight which estimates whether a person … [Read more...]
Looking at the Job Market by Proxy in 09/18: Quits to Separations
While we don't write on it every month, JOLTS, or the Job Openings and Labor Turnover Survey from the BLS, is one of our favorite surveys. Although it has only existed … [Read more...]
How Much Do Americans Earn From Side Jobs?
While researching the prevalence of side jobs and income earned outside of a primary occupation, we've found somewhere around 31% of all American adults have some side … [Read more...]
How Much Time Do Americans Spend on Side Jobs?
In our last couple posts we've looked at the most common side jobs in America as well as why Americans work side jobs. Our series comes from the 2017 Survey of Household … [Read more...]
Why Do Americans Work Side Jobs?
In the last post, we looked at the most popular side jobs worked by Americans in 2017. As the most logical followup, in this post we'll look at why Americans worked side … [Read more...]
What Are the Most Common Side Jobs in America?
While the Survey of Household Economics and Decisionmaking is incredibly useful for figuring out retirement stats, we've barely tested its depths with our recent posts. … [Read more...]
How Much Do Early Retirees – Or Extremely Early Retirees – Have Saved?
Our last few posts have looked at early retirees. We looked at the early retirement age (and extreme early retirement age), as well as survey data on how common early … [Read more...]
Early Retirement: How Common – Or Rare – Is It?
In a recent post, we argued for 55 years old as the early retirement age cutoff in America. Due to the timing of commonly available government benefits, early retirement … [Read more...]
Retirement Planning: How Do Americans Pay For Retirement?
In our series on American retirement, we penned two articles on retirement preparation - American retirement savings and retirement savings by age. For those posts we … [Read more...]
Why Do Americans Retire?
In our average retirement age in the United States piece we briefly discussed retiring for health reasons... then didn't dive deeper. Through the lens of 2017 Survey of … [Read more...]
Average Retirement Age in the United States
The average retirement age in the United States among currently living retirees was 59.88 years old. The median living retiree left work at 62 years old, and the most … [Read more...]
Do Americans Feel On-Track for Retirement?
The Survey of Household Economics and Decisionmaking (SHED) from the Federal Reserve is a survey which asks – among other things – how prepared American adults are for … [Read more...]