How old is the average person when they retire?

55-65 is the average. It is also based on the number of teaching years. If a teacher starts to teach late in life they have to teach longer older than a teacher who starts younger. In CA a teacher can NOT get retirement less than 55 years old and under 10 full years of teaching. There is a formula that figures what you will get each month in the retirement system and the longer you teach the more you put in and will make each month.

As an example, in Idaho teachers have a rule of 90 - number of years taught and age must = 90.