Originally Posted by
80ktsClamp
The overall average retirement age is not reliable as we have had 3 early out programs.
Any attempts to translate what we've had into valid data are off base and subject to wide margin of error.
And if the company continues to offer early out incentive programs on an annual basis? What do you consider a wide margin of error? 2 years and 5 months sounds like a standard deviation or so. And it's also the maximum upper limit.
Point: Not everyone is going until 65. Period.
In addition - retirements aren't the only reason people leave the seniority list. Natural attrition in non-early out months is approximately 6 a month at Delta.