# Your Retirement Number Is 25 Times the Spending Social Security Won’t Cover

- Source: Money Crashers
- Published: 2026-10-17T20:00:00+00:00
- Category: Markets
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Without that number, retirement saving is guesswork. You can’t tell whether putting away 10% of your pay is plenty or a fraction of what you need. The 25 is the 4% rule flipped, since 4% of 25 years of spending... Source

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