This blog post is just to show the amount of money that we should be saving for our retirement. Most of this would just be some of the numbers that I have calculated to show the amount that we should be saving to ensure that we will be able to build up a sufficient nest egg for our retirement. If you want to learn more about saving up for retirement, you can read my post on it here: Ways to Begin Saving for Retirement What percentage of our salary should we be saving for our retirement? Assuming that we are able to earn a 7% rate of return on our investments (before retirement), have no salary growth (for simplicity) and  start working at 25, we would need to save ......... 20% of our salary to retire at 65 42.3% of our salary to retire at 55 ......