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Ballpark E$timate

Last Updated: November 14, 2006 | Related resource areas: Personal Finance

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The Ballpark E$timate is an easy-to-use, two-page worksheet that helps you quickly identify approximately how much you need to save to fund a comfortable retirement. The Ballpark E$timate takes complicated issues like projected Social Security benefits and earnings assumptions on savings, and turns them into language and mathematics that are easy to understand. The Ballpark E$timate is available as both a worksheet and online interactive form.

Worksheet: http://www.choosetosave.org/ballpark/

Interactive Form: http://www.choosetosave.org/ballpark/index.cfm?fa=interactive


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