As of 2018, the average retirement age in the US is 61. That means about 40 years in the workforce for the average retiree. But what if you wanted to cash out earlier and get to Florida before ocean levels drown it? How much money would you need to have socked away to live comfortably for the rest of your life?

These maps from HowMuch use data from GoBankingRates to show how much you'd need if you retired early:

GoBankingRates collected the information from a few different sources. The researches started by figuring out the annual cost of living expenditures for people at 35, 45 and 55 years old, which came to $69,034, $73,905 and $64,972 respectively… They divided each state's annual expenditures by .04, which is the rate at which savers would draw down their accounts each year. The result is a total savings figure, or nest egg, for each state.

Here's how much you'll need to retire at 55 in every state:







And here's how much you'd need to get out really early, at 35:







Regardless of when and where you retired, $1.4 million in savings is about as low as you can go (and you'll want to head to Wyoming for that). As expected, states with higher costs of living (New York, California, Hawaii) require a lot more to retire early.

Thanks to returns on investments and interest, the amount you need to retire at 35 is not substantially more than the amount required to retire at 55 ($2.31 million versus $2.18 million in New York, for instance). But then, amassing $2 million in savings by the time you're 35 is no simple trick.

[HowMuch]