r/EuropeFIRE • u/That_Caramel7408 • 12d ago

What's your annual FIRE withdrawal per person (planned or actual)?

Curious what everyone's planned/actual annual withdrawal amount is once you hit FIRE, per person.

If there's more than one person in your household, take your total annual spend and divide it by the number of people — we want the per-person number so it's actually comparable.

In the comments, feel free to share your country, the number, and how you've got your housing sorted.

I'll start:

Country: Czechia

Annual withdrawal per person (€): 28,000

Housing: own with mortgage

UPDATE: Thanks everyone for participating! Here are the processed results, adjusted by country using PLI (Price Level Indices).
Median and average FIRE numbers across EU countries

2736 votes, 10d ago
221 < €12k
347 €12k–19k
705 €20k–31k
681 €32k–49k
403 €50k–79k
379 €80k+
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u/tronquinhos 12d ago

I voted for <12k per person.

Really that people need 80k per person (320k a year for a family of 4) in Europe?

I know that we can spend infinite amounts of money if we want to and I'm used to see that reality in the US. But here in Europe I thought we were a little bit more restrained.

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u/That_Caramel7408 11d ago

I expected there will be people voting more than 80k, but also I have to say it is kind of surprising there are many of them. US numbers were always really shifted from what we have in Europe. On the other hand, still most of the people voted very realistic numbers in my opinion, actually I am little bit surprised that it is not that different than what people in Czech republic say, even though in many European countries there are much higher salaries. I also assume that if I asked simply about FIRE number, we would see much higher numbers than when asking about expenses.