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put a dollar value on pensions?
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there are two steps. first you take the age at retirement and annual benefit. say it's $10,000/yr. you can easily look up the present value of a $10k/yr annuity starting at age x. (i used age 62, male, at immediate annuity. it calculates to be $147k. you then need to look at your current age and with a finance calculator calculate the annual deposits required to get to $147k by that age.  what i can't tell you is what value to use as a cost of money until retiring. 4%? 6%? that's the larger unknown.
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