In 2013, the average retirement age in the U.S. was about 64 for men and approximately 62 for women, according to a research note published by the Center for Retirement Research at Boston College. The authors define retirement age as “the age at which the labor force participation rate drops below 50%.”
The average retirement age among men was 63.92, up 0.3 percentage points from a year earlier and up about 1.3 percentage points from a decade earlier. The average retirement age among women was 61.93, down 1.1 percentage points from a year earlier but up 0.9 percentage points from a decade before.
