4) You are hired to work for a company at age 25 and the company has a retirement plan
where you can put up to 6% of your salary into the plan each month and they will match
that amount. Your starting monthly salary is $6,100, assume for simplicity sake you
never get a raise, and the retirement plan guarantees a 6.28% interest rate over the life of
the plan.
Scenario 1: You decide to start the retirement plan right away and you can afford
to put the full amount (6% of your salary) into the plan each month.
a) What is 6% of your salary? _______________
b) Since your company matches what you put into your retirement account, what is the
total amount put into your account each month?
_______________
c) How much money will you have in the retirement account when you reach full
retirement age, the time when you can start taking money out of the account, which is 62
years old? ________________
d) How much money did you put into the account? ________________
e) How much money did your employer put into your account? ________________
f) How much money did your account gain in interest over the years? _______________
Scenario 2: You decide to start the retirement plan right away, but you can only
afford to put 3% of your salary into the plan each month.
a) What is 3% of your salary? _______________
b) Since your company matches what you put into your retirement account, what is the
total amount put into your account each month?
_______________
c) How much money will you have in the retirement account when you reach full
retirement age, the time when you can start taking money out of the account, which is 62
years old? ________________
d) How much money did you put into the account? ________________
e) How much money did your employer put into your account? ________________
f) How much money did your account gain in interest over the years? _______________
What is the difference in the amount of money you will have at age 62 between scenarios
1 and 2? ________________
What is the difference in the amounts of money you put into retirement between
scenarios 1 and 2? _______________
How much more money did you get from your employer in scenario 1 than 2? ________