I've been reading Your Money or Your Life and one of the things it suggests you do is find your total lifetime earnings. Using the Social Security website (which is actually really user friendly, shockingly) you can create an account and see your lifetime social security eligible earnings. This will not be 100% your lifetime salary but is a good representation for most of us who primarily have social security eligible earnings.
I'm not sure how easy this information is to obtain outside the USA but here is the SS website -
https://secure.ssa.gov/mySSA/startIt's a different way to look at lifetime savings rates.
You can copy the lifetime earnings table to excel and add it up pretty quickly. This lets you do a quick and easy comparison vs your current net worth. I suspect mustachians who start early in their career will have net worths eclipse SS eligible total earnings at some point in their lifetimes, especially because things like HSA's or company matches will not count towards this number. Which strikes me as a pretty cool thing to shoot for. I'm not close yet, especially if I add in several years worth of non-FICA graduate student stipends.
Has anyone else done this before? I don't think I've ever seen a discussion here like this.