At what age did you (or are you hoping to) retire?

I had my youngest at 43 and no matter what would expect to be working until she is out of college and any straight-from-college graduate program (my university employment comes with a tuition benefit that means she can attend college free or at a greatly reduced at my university and a variety of other universities).  I don't know what I'll do from that point; I really enjoy teaching my courses, and since I'm a tenured full professor, I can basically stay as long as I like.  Since it's a university position, I have summers and breaks, so I can travel.  Really, it depends at some point on what I feel like doing and what's going on with my adult children -- I like being engaged in my field, but ask me if I still feel that way in fifteen years or so.

I will be 65 when I retire. I took 10 years off to stay home with my children. I need to teach 4 more years to be fully vested in my retirement. I will also be at this school for 20 years. I get a $35,000 bonus for 20 years of service. If I save up sick days, I also get paid for those. It is worth it to stay.

Not employeed but dh us a teacher in CA. He will retire at 63. That will give us full pension benefits. He will receive COLAs and we get 100% covered health and dental for 5 years. Then we will need to buy in.

I’m 56 and thought I was going to go at 55 but I still really enjoyed my job so decided to continue. Then we bought a house outside the city, management has changed and I’m rethinking this decision lol. SO just told his management he will be retiring in Dec 2024 (at 60) so I will likely go then at 57.

Well, we dont work in jobs that offer pensions and we were not able to save for retirement earlier in our careers. Our house will be paid off in 2027, but I expect to continue to work after that. Dh is younger than I am and his job has amazing insurance, so he will work longer than I will.

This sounds terrible, but when our remaining parents pass away, that is when we will be able to afford retirement. We are very fortunate in that regard.

My unpopular opinion is that no taxpayer-funded career should come with a pension since no one in private industry receives one any longer. I can't afford to pay for my retirement and theirs.

I'm eligible to retire in 5 years at age 50. I'd like to continue working until I'm 57.

I retired at 66, three years ago, That being said I do work per diem, I love my job and enjoy taking care of my patients (I am an OR nurse) The extra $$ is a nice thing and lots goes into savings every month.
I planned well for my retirement and Have a significant amount of $$ in retirement investments. I am collecting Social Security....I also get a small pension from a previous job, also in nursing.

I retired from teaching at 56 after 34 years of teaching. My husband also retired at the same age. In order for us to qualify for a full pension, we would have had to teach until 65. I did not even consider doing that. There were some big things that we had in place before we made the decision. The biggest one was health insurance. We are both fully insured until we qualify for Medicare. Our daughter can stay on our plan until she is 26. She is currently 21. Our contribution to the plan each month is $400. We invested a lot of money when we were young. We always needed to get paid because we invested as much as we could. It means that we can scrape off a pretty decent amount of $ each year. When our daughter is done with college, it will really free things up for us. We opted to take our pensions with penalties. Sure, we both could have worked until we were 65 to get more, but we would have been miserable doing it. We think about it as playing the long game - collect less, but longer. Eventually it does even out. Our investing allows us to do that. It helps that we both have a pension.

We also decided that we’d sub. Being a sub is a far different story than being a full time teacher. There is a shortage of subs and daily pay rates have increased significantly. The districts we sub in pay retired teachers more. We pick our jobs. Someone else plans the work for you, you do it, and when the kids walk out - so do you. If you didn’t like the job of the day, you never have to do it again. So far, I have only had two jobs that I won’t do again. You can work as little or as much as you want. My husband keeps going to the school where he worked to sub. I have subbed in four different buildings and have dabbled in different areas. I taught 4th grade most of my career and have really enjoyed working in the high school of a neighboring district. If I was in a situation where I had to sub every singe day of the year, I could do it just because I wouldn’t have to do all of the other things that go with teaching. You have no idea how liberating it is to not have to check email, plan, attend meetings, evaluate, contact parents, etc. Basically you are handed one ball at the beginning of the day and you hand it back in at the end of the day. I was used to juggling several all day long. 

I quit clenching my teeth. I broke four teeth in three years because I am a stress clencher. My husband has lost over ten pounds. His blood pressure finally moved into a healthy range. His numbers were terrible when he was working. It is so awesome to do things like get your hair cut at noon or go to the dentist at 11 am. 

I hope things will go ok for you. Retiring was a huge mental hurdle for me, not so much for my husband. We are doing just fine.

I retired at 58.5 with 36 years teaching. I get 70% of the average of my last 3 highest years. I collected SS at 62.

Oh no, don't get me started! Due to misinformation out there - Some public service employees do pay into their retirement system. I am one of those. So, I not only paid taxes for my position in local government and still do for others, I paid a lot into my own retirement (not by choice, but a requirement of working for said government entity).

My house will be paid off in 12 1/2 years (if not sooner) so that'll put me at 67.
I'm almost envious of all the posts above that are "My DH and I..." - it's a bit harder when it's only one of you.

I could have retired at 55 on my NHS pension, but left it to grow until I turned 60, 3 years ago. It made a big difference to my lump sum, fortunately.

I'm only working for the health insurance otherwise I would have retired years ago.  So for now the plan is to retire the day I age in to Medicare.