retirement investment

We're up to close to 25% right now, I think,

Of pre tax income

15%

Currently right under 15%, I'd like to be at 20-25% though.

Once I finished with the kids school, I was up to 25%.

Was saving around 22% before I got married. Now I'm down to around 15%.

A little more than 25% not counting 401k match with most coming from my wife’s salary. Having the children complete college and moving those former costs to savings helped out tremendously.

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quick question: roughly what percentage of your income goes to some sort of retirement account?

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Highly individualized question. i.e., in the scenario of an anticipated $10M inheritance, the appropriate answer might well be zero. OTOH, in the anticipated circumstance of a disabled child/spouse (i.e., Huntington's Chorea), that amount might be huge.

Here's a suggestion:
(1) Make some personal assumptions (i. e., How much do I need for retirement . . . . and perhaps, how much do I "want" for retirement)
(2) Look at the amount in #1 two ways (a) as an income bearing account at 3-5% on retirement, or (b) as an account that will generate some amount of interest (your choice of amount) +decay over time and zero-out at your anticipated age of death (again highly individualized)

Most folks use #2(b)

Determine what you need to put back annually (on average and as an average of your anticipated income as you're promoted over the years) to attain your goal assuming reasonable growth rates of savings along the way.