Originally Posted by
sailingfun
I have a friend who is a 85 hire at NW. His retirement package is about 80,000 a year from the DB plan. His currently averages 270 k a year plus the DC plan. Total over 300k. He would be very surprised to find out he is working for a fraction of his pay.
Wow! Kinda puts it in perspective. Easy to say retire when your making 1/3 of that with no DB.