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Ramsey Everyday Millionaires

How Much Should I Be Putting Into My 401(k)?

Ramsey Everyday Millionaires

Ramsey Network

Investing, Careers, Business

4.63.6K Ratings

🗓️ 18 October 2021

⏱️ 5 minutes

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Summary

Listen to how ordinary people built extraordinary wealth - and how you can too. You’ll learn how millionaires live on less than they make, avoid debt, invest, are disciplined and responsible! Featuring hosts from the Ramsey Network: Dave Ramsey, Ken Coleman, Christy Wright, Rachel Cruze, John Delony, and George Kamel.

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0:00.0

You're listening to Ramsay every day millionaires where we talk retirement, building wealth,

0:10.5

and outrageous generosity.

0:14.0

Hayden is with us in Oklahoma City.

0:16.6

Hi Hayden, welcome to the Ramsay Show.

0:18.8

Thank you, how are you?

0:20.8

Better than I deserve, what's up?

0:23.0

So, I'm 25.

0:25.1

My wife and I just got done playing off some student loans.

0:29.1

Great.

0:30.1

Don't quite have our emergency funds set up.

0:33.3

Yeah, where it should be yet.

0:35.9

But I'm a planner, so we're sitting talking with the company we work for and then some financial

0:42.6

advisors in the area about 7-4-1K and IRA and stuff.

0:47.2

So my company, so the question I have is my company only matches that half of the person.

0:51.9

So I'm wondering how much I've been, you know, take out for that side and how much I go to

0:58.9

the financial advisor with a regular irony.

1:05.2

So in the baby steps, you almost have that emergency fund ready to go.

1:09.5

Once you're at baby step four, then we're going to put 15% and you're wondering how do

1:14.1

I do that and what order because of this half percent match.

1:17.7

And we like match the best.

1:18.9

So match is going to beat pretty much everything out there because it's free money.

1:22.7

We're going to follow that up by going to that Roth IRA that you mentioned and you can

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