{"id":130758,"date":"2025-08-09T03:50:11","date_gmt":"2025-08-09T03:50:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/130758\/"},"modified":"2025-08-09T03:50:11","modified_gmt":"2025-08-09T03:50:11","slug":"dreaming-of-a-middle-class-retirement-in-the-midwest-heres-what-you-need-to-save","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/130758\/","title":{"rendered":"Dreaming of a Middle-Class Retirement in the Midwest? Here&#8217;s What You Need To Save"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Planning to retire in the Midwest? The amount of money middle-class retirees need in savings varies greatly depending on whether you\u2019re retiring with or without Social Security benefits. An original GOBankingRates study from January 2025 revealed that a 20-year <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gobankingrates.com\/retirement\/planning\/planning-for-retirement\/\" data-is-dynamic-hyperlink=\"false\" data-link-type=\"first-link\" data-link-position=\"1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">retirement<\/a> without Social Security requires more than $1 million in four Midwestern states.<\/p>\n<p>However, you won\u2019t need to save nearly as much if you\u2019re planning to draw these benefits. On the high end, a retiree in Minnesota would need $705,255 in savings while retirees in Missouri would need $456,775 saved up to fund a 20-year retirement with Social Security.<\/p>\n<p>Ranked in alphabetical order, here\u2019s how much you need to save for a 20-year middle-class <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gobankingrates.com\/retirement\/planning\/best-midwest-cities-to-retire-on-3000-or-less-per-month\/\" data-is-dynamic-hyperlink=\"false\" data-link-type=\"money-link\" data-link-position=\"2\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">retirement in the Midwest<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Planning to retire in the Midwest? The amount of money middle-class retirees need in savings varies greatly depending&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":130759,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[64,8726,255,615,700,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-130758","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-personal-finance","8":"tag-business","9":"tag-gobankingrates","10":"tag-personal-finance","11":"tag-planning","12":"tag-retirement","13":"tag-united-states","14":"tag-unitedstates","15":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114996774647312339","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130758","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=130758"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130758\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/130759"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=130758"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=130758"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=130758"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}