cthia wrote:What is the retirement age in the Honorverse?
Military and Private sector?
Naval Retirement:They
now allow you for enlisted to stay in 40 years doing this you will get 100% of your base pay. The max cut off used to be 29 and the min still is 20. The did this since recruiting is low. You can cross over into different branches. If you start out in the Marines first you won't have to attend any other branch of service's boot camp. Now if you go reserve during your time and then go active duty then your time of service is counted differently. If you have a total time of service of 20 years and out of the 20 years 2 of it was reserve time then you wouldn't be able to retire just yet. Hope this was what you were looking for.
Current life expectancy: in US is 79.8 yrs. So essentially half a lifetime.
Life expectancy in the Honorverse: is 300 yrs? So naval retirement after 150 yrs of service?
150 years is a long time to duck ordnance. It's a wonder statistics don't catch up with you long before retirement in this neck-o-the-woods.
Private Sector Retirement: 62 yrs-old. 75 % of Life expectancy.
Which would equate to 225 yrs in Honorverse before retirement.
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Grayson would have to be graded on a curve, until their retirement ages began to stretch out being affected by prolong.
It seems the GSN can afford for its officers to retire far less than the RMN.[/quote]
You cannot simply compare ages for today and then bring it up to a prolong era.
Example: Many teachers burn out after a quarter of a century (and some burn out a lot earlier) but they stay on so they can receive a healthy retirement check. At 20 years in New York City where I worked, at 20 years you got 49% of your last year's salary (that was years ago, a lot of things got modified since). Then you would receive 1.2% for the next ten years. So at 30 years in you would have 62%. After that, it was 1.7% per year. I retired at 46 years with about 82% of my last year's salary. Since a lot of deductions were no longer in place (no social security payments, no state taxes in New York State), I actually took in more money.
A lot of teachers held on desperately. Once you got past a certain number of years service you had the "pewter handcuffs," a chance for a possible decent life after teaching. And a real lot of teachers retired on the job.
If there was, let's say, a 50 year requirement, a lot of those teachers would have retired. While it might have improved education, schools would have been horribly short-handed.
The same goes for a real lot of jobs. Comparing a top neurosurgeon with, let's say a technician, really doesn't mesh. And Harrington did shift jobs for a long time. Remember he really came back to Bassingford mainly to help Honor when she was hurt.
Most of the jobs in the navy are pretty boring. People will not enlist GENERALLY for a century's worth of service. Also, financially it will not work. If you had very long service, real danger, and low pay/pensions, who would give up a life of centuries for almost nothing in return?