It's Brian Preston, the money guy, restoring order to your financial chaos, retirement,

investing, taxing.

You've got financial questions, he's got financial answers.

It's Brian Preston, the money guy.

Travis on Facebook, he has a question.

He says he just listened to our average 401k balance by age show, which is great.

That's one of our favorites to do.

He said, I am a state government employee with a pension plan.

I'm frustrated that my 401k balance is not as high as I would like it to be.

This is because the state takes 10% of my income for the pension plan.

Therefore, I only put 10% of my income into my 401k.

How can I determine if my 401k balance is up to par considering I have a pension to

supplement it?

Yeah, I love this type of question too.

This is a very nuanced, very individualized.

Unfortunately, Travis, we don't know all your things.

You gave us a lot to work with.

I went talking to generalities here.

It is one of those unique things where I worked in local government for a while where I

know how pensions, it's not uncommon where you might have to give 8% and then your employer

is putting 12%.

You're actually getting 20% of your income, the total amount put in there because of the

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