Snapshots of Relative Non-Labor Income and Retirement Satisfaction

Quickly apply original, key PMR-published papers with Snapshots—a short article companion that distills PMR research into compressed, digestible takeaways, so you can put the paper’s core ideas to work in your investment process—fast. This Snapshot article is based on research arguing that retirees with more guaranteed non-labor income relative to wealth report greater retirement satisfaction, and the association remains across alternative wealth measures and when tracking changes for the same retirees over time.