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Kecukupan tabungan pensiun adalah kecemasan finansial paling gigih dalam survei konsumen Amerika. Gallup telah melacaknya selama lebih dari dua dekade, dan ia menempati peringkat pertama atau kedua di antara kekhawatiran finansial pada setiap tahun yang diukur. Pada April 2025, 59 % orang Amerika melaporkan mengkhawatirkan tidak memiliki cukup uang untuk pensiun, dengan 71 % orang dewasa yang belum pensiun setidaknya cukup khawatir dan 42 % sangat khawatir. Di antara mereka yang belum pensiun berpenghasilan lebih rendah, rekor tertinggi 88 % menyatakan khawatir. Ketakutan ini bukan kepanikan irasional — ia melacak kesenjangan yang nyata — tetapi diperbesar oleh target tabungan berangka bulat (mis. «$1 juta») yang mungkin melebih-lebihkan kebutuhan bagi banyak rumah tangga, dan oleh liputan media yang menekankan rata-rata (miring oleh penabung besar) daripada nilai median.
Perkiraan kasar: ~60 % orang Amerika khawatir
Aktual
~39 % rumah tangga usia kerja berisiko (NRRI 2022 SCF)
Rumah tangga usia kerja di AS (2022 SCF)
Tampilkan perhitungan
National Retirement Risk Index (NRRI) dari Center for Retirement Research di Boston College, yang diperbarui dengan data Survey of Consumer Finances 2022, menemukan bahwa 39 % rumah tangga usia kerja «berisiko» tidak mampu mempertahankan standar hidup pra-pensiun mereka bahkan jika mereka bekerja hingga usia 65 dan menganuitasi semua aset termasuk ekuitas rumah melalui reverse mortgage. Angka 39 % ini adalah pembacaan terendah NRRI sejak dimulai pada tahun 2004 (turun dari 47 % pada tahun 2019), yang sebagian besar didorong oleh melonjaknya harga rumah (+22 % riil, 2019-2022). Karena NRRI mengasumsikan rumah tangga mengambil reverse mortgage — sesuatu yang sebenarnya dilakukan kurang dari 2 % — angka 39 % paling baik dipahami sebagai estimasi batas bawah. Sebuah studi Vanguard yang dikutip oleh Center for Retirement Research menemukan bahwa setidaknya 70 % rumah tangga tidak akan mampu mempertahankan standar hidup pra-pensiun mereka ketika ekuitas rumah dikecualikan. Estimasi sentral 0,39 menggunakan NRRI yang diterbitkan dengan ekuitas rumah disertakan; ketidakpastian membatasi rentang dari pembacaan NRRI yang optimis hingga skenario yang lebih realistis yang mengecualikan ekuitas rumah dan memperhitungkan fakta bahwa SCF 2022 menangkap ledakan perumahan yang secara historis tidak biasa.
Catatan: Angka NRRI 39 % menggunakan definisi spesifik «kekurangan» — jatuh lebih dari 10…
Angka NRRI 39 % menggunakan definisi spesifik «kekurangan» — jatuh lebih dari 10 % di bawah tingkat penggantian target yang berasal dari pengeluaran pra-pensiun. Ia mengasumsikan rumah tangga bekerja hingga usia 65 dan mengambil reverse mortgage, yang hampir tidak ada yang benar-benar melakukannya. Sebuah studi Vanguard yang dikutip oleh Center for Retirement Research menemukan bahwa setidaknya 70 % rumah tangga akan kekurangan ketika ekuitas rumah dikecualikan. NRRI juga menangkap momen yang secara historis tidak biasa: SCF 2022 mencerminkan puncak harga rumah dan keuntungan pasar saham era pandemi. Perbaikan dari 47 % ke 39 % mungkin tidak bertahan. «Pensiun yang nyaman» pada dasarnya bersifat subjektif — penelitian secara konsisten menunjukkan bahwa pengeluaran menurun 5-15 % pada beberapa tahun pertama pensiun dan terus menurun seiring bertambahnya usia, yang berarti banyak rumah tangga yang tampak «berisiko» menurut standar pengeluaran pra-pensiun mungkin dapat beradaptasi dengan sukses. Social Security menyediakan lantai yang mencegah kemiskinan bagi kebanyakan orang Amerika, menggantikan 36-40 % pendapatan pra-pensiun bagi pekerja rata-rata. Ketakutan ini terlalu dibesar-besarkan untuk berpenghasilan tinggi (yang memiliki penyangga besar meskipun di bawah tolok ukur) dan kurang dihargai untuk berpenghasilan rendah (yang memiliki tabungan paling kecil DAN kesadaran paling sedikit akan masalah tersebut).
Bagaimana risiko bervariasi
Angka utama merata-ratakan situasi yang sangat berbeda. Berikut bagaimana probabilitas bervariasi berdasarkan skenario atau konteks:
1 dari 1,8 · 55%
Low-income households have the least savings and highest NRRI risk; many rely almost entirely on Social Security
1 dari 2,5 · 40%
Middle-income households are the core of the NRRI shortfall — enough income to expect a standard of living above Social Security, not enough savings to fund it
1 dari 5,0 · 20%
High earners are less likely to fall short in absolute terms, but the NRRI still finds ~20% at risk, often due to high pre-retirement spending and low savings rates relative to income
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About 39% of US working-age households are on track to fall short of maintaining their pre-retirement standard of living, according to the National Retirement Risk Index from the Center for Retirement Research at Boston College. That figure — updated with 2022 Survey of Consumer Finances data — is actually the lowest reading since the NRRI began in 2004, down from 47% in 2019. The improvement was driven almost entirely by soaring home prices (+22% in real terms between 2019 and 2022), not by a surge in savings behavior. And the NRRI assumes households tap their home equity through a reverse mortgage at retirement — something fewer than 2% actually do. A Vanguard study cited by the Center for Retirement Research found that at least 70% of households would fall short when housing equity is excluded.
The perception roughly matches the reality, which is unusual for this site. Gallup’s long-running financial worry tracker finds that 59% of Americans worry about not having enough for retirement, with 71% of nonretired adults at least moderately worried. The EBRI Retirement Confidence Survey tells a similar story from the other direction: 67% of workers say they are confident they will have enough, leaving 33% not confident. The gap between the NRRI’s 39% “at risk” and EBRI’s 33% “not confident” hints at a troubling asymmetry: some at-risk households do not know they are at risk.
The raw savings numbers make the gap concrete. The Federal Reserve’s 2022 SCF puts the median retirement account balance for households aged 55-64 at roughly $185,000. Fidelity’s widely cited guideline calls for 10x annual salary by age 67. With median household income around $80,000, that target is approximately $800,000. The gap between $185,000 and $800,000 looks catastrophic — but the Fidelity benchmark assumes savings alone should replace 45% of income, on top of Social Security. For a median earner, Social Security already replaces 36-40% of pre-retirement earnings, and household spending typically declines in the years immediately following retirement as commuting, work clothing, payroll taxes, and mortgage payments fall away. The $800,000 target is conservative by design; many households with paid-off homes and modest lifestyles can maintain their standard of living with substantially less.
None of this means the problem is imaginary. The 2025 Social Security Trustees Report projects that the Old-Age and Survivors Insurance trust fund will be depleted by 2033, after which ongoing payroll tax revenue would cover only 77% of scheduled benefits. A 23% benefit cut would push the NRRI’s share “at risk” up by an estimated 5-10 percentage points. The households most exposed are those in the bottom income third, who rely on Social Security for the vast majority of their retirement income and have median retirement savings close to zero.
The distribution matters more than the average. High earners who save even modestly through employer plans are unlikely to face destitution. Low earners without access to a 401(k) — a substantial share of private-sector workers lack an employer plan — face a genuine risk of a sharp living-standard decline. The fear is calibrated at the population level but poorly calibrated at the individual level: overrated for the anxious upper-middle class reading personal-finance blogs, underrated for the lower-income workers who rarely engage with retirement planning at all.
Fakta terkait
39% pensiunan menghadapi kekurangan tabungan. 4% orang dewasa mengalami kebangkrutan medis. Krisis lambat 10x lebih mungkin dari yang akut. Keduanya tidak trending di media sosial.
~37% pensiunan yang tetap tinggal di rumah keluarga besar melaporkan penyesalan terkait hunian atau tekanan finansial di tahun-tahun berikutnya. Sekitar 22% yang pindah ke rumah lebih kecil berharap tetap tinggal atau pindah belakangan. Penyesalan yang lebih berat ada pada yang tetap tinggal.
Sekitar 39% pensiunan AS mengalami kekurangan tabungan yang signifikan. Probabilitasnya lebih tinggi dari estimasi kebanyakan pekerja, namun perencanaan pensiun secara konsisten berada di bawah ketakutan yang lebih dramatis.
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[1] Center for Retirement Research at Boston College — The National Retirement Risk Index: An Update from the 2022 SCF
The National Retirement Risk Index: An Update from the 2022 SCF- Statistik
39% of working-age households are at risk of being unable to maintain their pre-retirement standard of living, down from 47% in 2019- Kutipan
“"Between 2019 and 2022, the NRRI dropped substantially — from 47 to 39 percent. The share of households at risk dropped to the lowest level since the Index started in 2004, largely due to rising home values." ”
- Data sumber dari
- 2024-02-01
- Diakses
- 2026-04-19 · salinan arsip
- Perhitungan
- The NRRI is the primary source for the native and normalized estimates. It compares projected replacement rates (from Social Security, pensions, 401(k)s, and home equity via reverse mortgage) against a target replacement rate derived from pre-retirement spending. Households falling more than 10% below their target are classified as "at risk." The 39% figure is used directly as the lifetime probability because the NRRI is already a lifetime-horizon measure — it asks whether a household will fall short over its entire retirement, not in any single year.
- Independensi
- The NRRI is the canonical academic measure of US retirement preparedness. It uses the Federal Reserve's Survey of Consumer Finances microdata as its input, making it methodologically independent from survey-based confidence measures (EBRI, Gallup) and from industry benchmarks (Fidelity, Vanguard).
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[2] Employee Benefit Research Institute / Greenwald Research — 35th Annual Retirement Confidence Survey (2025)
35th Annual Retirement Confidence Survey (2025)- Statistik
67% of workers are at least somewhat confident they will have enough money to live comfortably in retirement; 33% are not confident- Kutipan
“"67% of workers are confident they will have enough money to live comfortably throughout retirement, and 78% of retirees are confident. Workers' confidence remained unchanged between January 2024 and January 2025." ”
- Data sumber dari
- 2025-04-29
- Diakses
- 2026-04-19 · salinan arsip
- Perhitungan
- The EBRI RCS provides a perception-side cross-check. If 33% of workers report not being confident, that is reasonably close to the NRRI's 39% "at risk" — though the two measures are not directly comparable. The EBRI figure is self-assessed confidence; the NRRI is a modeled shortfall based on balance-sheet data. The gap (33% not confident vs 39% at risk) suggests that some at-risk households are unaware of their shortfall, consistent with the literature on financial literacy and retirement planning.
- Independensi
- EBRI's Retirement Confidence Survey uses a nationally representative consumer survey panel, methodologically independent from the NRRI's balance-sheet modeling approach and from Gallup's financial-worry tracking polls.
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[3] Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System — Survey of Consumer Finances (SCF) — 2022
Survey of Consumer Finances (SCF) — 2022- Statistik
Median retirement account balance for households aged 55-64: approximately $185,000 (2022 dollars)- Kutipan
“"The Survey of Consumer Finances (SCF) is a triennial cross-sectional survey of U.S. families. The survey provides detailed information on household balance sheets, pensions, income, and demographic characteristics." ”
- Data sumber dari
- 2023-10-01
- Diakses
- 2026-04-19 · salinan arsip
- Perhitungan
- The SCF's median retirement balance of ~$185,000 for households aged 55-64 provides a concrete reality check against savings guidelines. Fidelity's widely cited benchmark is 10x salary by age 67; with median household income of ~$80,000 (2022), the target would be ~$800,000. The gap between $185,000 (actual median) and $800,000 (guideline) is enormous. However, the Fidelity guideline targets 45% income replacement from savings alone, on top of Social Security. Households with modest pre-retirement spending, a paid-off home, or higher-than-average Social Security benefits may need substantially less than 10x. The SCF is the upstream dataset that feeds the NRRI model.
- Independensi
- The SCF is the primary federal data source on household wealth. The NRRI uses SCF microdata, so the two sources are linked — but the SCF provides the raw balance data while the NRRI provides the modeled shortfall assessment.
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[4] Social Security Administration — The 2025 OASDI Trustees Report
The 2025 OASDI Trustees Report- Statistik
Social Security replaces approximately 36-40% of pre-retirement earnings for average earners; OASI trust fund projected to be depleted by 2033, after which 77% of scheduled benefits would be payable from ongoing revenue- Kutipan
“"The Old-Age and Survivors Insurance Trust Fund will be able to pay 100 percent of total scheduled benefits until 2033, at which time the fund's reserves will become depleted and continuing program income will be sufficient to pay 77 percent of total scheduled benefits." ”
- Data sumber dari
- 2025-06-18
- Diakses
- 2026-04-19 · salinan arsip
- Perhitungan
- Social Security is the single largest source of retirement income for most Americans and replaces roughly 36-40% of pre-retirement earnings for average earners (higher replacement rates for lower earners, lower for higher earners). The 2033 OASI trust fund depletion date does not mean benefits go to zero — ongoing payroll taxes would still fund about 77% of scheduled benefits. This is relevant because the NRRI model assumes full scheduled Social Security benefits; a ~23% cut would increase the share of households at risk by an estimated 5-10 percentage points. The entry uses the current- law benefit assumption consistent with the published NRRI.
- Independensi
- The SSA Trustees Report is the official government projection for Social Security solvency, independent from the NRRI modeling at Boston College and from the EBRI confidence surveys.