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Age has nothing to do with it. At 32% you should probably be 100% traditional. That is based on not knowing anything about your financial situation and assume you invest the current traditional tax benefit. Your allocation could make sense but for most it probably doesn’t
It doesn’t matter what you make later while working. It depends what your tax bracket will be when you retire and withdraw. Most but not all people will be in a lower tax bracket when they are no longer working and withdrawing from retirement accounts.
Pretty bad tbh. Very likely that you'll be better off doing 100% traditional. You can also do a backdoor Roth IRA every year as a hedge.
Chief
100% pre-tax, 0% Roth is the way to go for your 401k
It’s fine, but if your line of thinking is your retirement income will be higher than it is now then you should just all in Roth. The tax savings of going 1/3 traditional is marginal in your month-to-month and you may as well get it all back tax-free in 40yrs.
Chief
Do you think it’s likely that taxable income in retirement will be higher than it is now? It’s possible, but I don’t think it’s likely.
At that point, you have flexibility to just take RMDs where required and only take out as much as you need otherwise, which means you have a lot more control over your income each year. Throw in the standard deduction, and I expect my taxable income - not my cash flow - in retirement to be lower than it is now, thus traditional makes a lot more sense. I cover my bases by doing Roth IRA so I have a mix.
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You're probably better off doing 100% unless you plan on having a fat retirement where you'll be spending significantly more than you are now.
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Principal 1 - excellent explanation.