Retired worker beneficiaries in current payment status at the end of
December 2011, distributed by age and sex

  Sex of beneficiary
 Total Male Female
Age Number Average
amount
Number Average
amount
Number Average
amount
62 866,186 $1,027.23 417,926 $1,176.37 448,260 $888.19
63 1,186,231 1,066.69 581,235 1,219.28 604,996 920.09
64 1,403,198 1,086.48 692,895 1,245.07 710,303 931.78
65 1,456,108 1,142.77 725,042 1,309.74 731,066 977.19
66 2,008,409 1,271.67 1,059,145 1,451.22 949,264 1,071.33
67 2,073,327 1,289.00 1,096,107 1,471.24 977,220 1,084.58
68 2,153,802 1,299.19 1,138,457 1,484.24 1,015,345 1,091.70
69 2,065,436 1,311.72 1,092,617 1,499.90 972,819 1,100.36
70 1,847,966 1,328.65 971,690 1,517.56 876,276 1,119.17
71 1,706,764 1,315.90 896,299 1,500.04 810,465 1,112.26
72 1,591,285 1,287.99 835,776 1,463.30 755,509 1,094.05
73 1,541,143 1,272.50 809,254 1,443.22 731,889 1,083.74
74 1,424,150 1,250.64 748,313 1,411.47 675,837 1,072.56
75 1,324,649 1,207.86 695,194 1,352.16 629,455 1,048.50
76 1,258,797 1,186.76 658,810 1,320.56 599,987 1,039.84
77 1,174,798 1,183.13 614,539 1,310.65 560,259 1,043.25
78 1,067,684 1,187.97 555,425 1,314.13 512,259 1,051.18
79 1,043,035 1,204.59 538,786 1,333.98 504,249 1,066.34
80 976,641 1,194.44 503,004 1,313.72 473,637 1,067.76
81 939,787 1,192.22 480,703 1,306.83 459,084 1,072.21
82 849,101 1,191.46 427,622 1,299.89 421,479 1,081.44
83 802,825 1,207.06 396,426 1,320.06 406,399 1,096.83
84 744,678 1,216.22 361,310 1,327.05 383,368 1,111.77
85 667,825 1,205.40 317,696 1,302.01 350,129 1,117.74
86 601,022 1,219.09 277,441 1,318.09 323,581 1,134.21
87 540,855 1,203.31 244,698 1,285.72 296,157 1,135.22
88 462,449 1,194.83 205,683 1,261.14 256,766 1,141.70
89 395,161 1,195.80 170,700 1,250.60 224,461 1,154.13
90 343,140 1,198.07 144,404 1,239.82 198,736 1,167.74
91 273,931 1,199.34 111,116 1,223.05 162,815 1,183.16
92 205,241 1,218.92 78,966 1,250.77 126,275 1,199.00
93 168,689 1,266.59 61,569 1,328.83 107,120 1,230.81
94 128,355 1,291.07 44,487 1,383.23 83,868 1,242.18
95 93,846 1,362.17 30,571 1,512.18 63,275 1,289.70
96 69,614 1,334.04 21,607 1,490.11 48,007 1,263.80
97 50,151 1,305.32 14,324 1,465.87 35,827 1,241.13
98 33,908 1,277.66 9,274 1,432.60 24,634 1,219.33
99 & over 58,859 1,207.14 13,573 1,347.87 45,286 1,164.96
Total 35,599,046 1,228.57 18,042,684 1,381.38 17,556,362 1,071.54

Retired worker beneficiaries by dual-entitlement status

A dually-entitled person is a retired worker who is eligible for a higher benefit (for example, a widow(er)'s benefit) on the basis of another insured individual's earnings record. The follwing 2 tables break out data in the above table by dual-entitlement status.

Non-dually entitled retired workers
  Sex of beneficiary
 Total Male Female
Age Number Average
amount
Number Average
amount
Number Average
amount
62 782,259 $1,060.21 416,736 $1,177.83 365,523 $926.10
63 1,063,328 1,101.83 579,210 1,220.90 484,118 959.37
64 1,234,850 1,124.85 689,800 1,246.83 545,050 970.48
65 1,272,054 1,185.26 721,391 1,311.84 550,663 1,019.43
66 1,776,948 1,314.06 1,053,662 1,453.44 723,286 1,111.03
67 1,815,266 1,333.70 1,089,768 1,473.62 725,498 1,123.51
68 1,870,967 1,343.93 1,131,425 1,486.62 739,542 1,125.64
69 1,785,927 1,356.09 1,085,516 1,502.32 700,411 1,129.47
70 1,591,212 1,374.58 965,192 1,520.19 626,020 1,150.09
71 1,460,726 1,359.31 889,936 1,502.62 570,790 1,135.89
72 1,347,006 1,328.56 829,396 1,465.78 517,610 1,108.68
73 1,287,520 1,311.61 802,402 1,445.65 485,118 1,089.91
74 1,175,296 1,285.76 741,523 1,413.83 433,773 1,066.83
75 1,070,554 1,237.24 687,942 1,354.26 382,612 1,026.84
76 1,001,319 1,211.19 651,170 1,322.62 350,149 1,003.97
77 922,853 1,204.35 607,301 1,312.60 315,552 996.03
78 831,222 1,207.25 548,939 1,316.22 282,283 995.34
79 804,899 1,224.47 532,645 1,336.22 272,254 1,005.85
80 738,543 1,210.00 496,913 1,315.95 241,630 992.11
81 697,814 1,204.10 474,471 1,309.09 223,343 981.06
82 618,011 1,199.28 421,951 1,302.05 196,060 978.11
83 577,950 1,214.78 391,336 1,322.27 186,614 989.37
84 527,226 1,222.53 356,560 1,329.68 170,666 998.69
85 462,635 1,202.49 313,115 1,304.29 149,520 989.32
86 411,534 1,215.25 273,554 1,320.51 137,980 1,006.56
87 360,775 1,187.90 240,852 1,287.90 119,923 987.05
88 302,064 1,167.98 201,999 1,263.06 100,065 976.05
89 252,194 1,161.59 167,527 1,252.67 84,667 981.39
90 213,841 1,152.22 141,262 1,241.83 72,579 977.81
91 165,612 1,137.76 108,402 1,224.49 57,210 973.44
92 122,475 1,158.39 77,045 1,252.93 45,430 998.06
93 101,139 1,220.64 60,277 1,331.16 40,862 1,057.60
94 77,028 1,255.26 43,607 1,386.03 33,421 1,084.64
95 58,329 1,374.86 29,971 1,517.70 28,358 1,223.89
96 43,934 1,337.14 21,123 1,496.27 22,811 1,189.79
97 30,364 1,308.64 13,972 1,471.80 16,392 1,169.56
98 20,366 1,276.17 8,999 1,439.24 11,367 1,147.07
99 & over 34,942 1,188.69 13,088 1,352.79 21,854 1,090.41
Total 28,910,982 1,258.54 17,879,978 1,383.78 11,031,004 1,055.54

Dually entitled retired workers
  Sex of beneficiary
 Total Male Female
Age Number Average
amount
Number Average
amount
Number Average
amount
62 83,927 $719.90 1,190 $665.02 82,737 $720.69
63 122,903 762.67 2,025 757.43 120,878 762.76
64 168,348 805.03 3,095 851.39 165,253 804.16
65 184,054 849.17 3,651 894.03 180,403 848.26
66 231,461 946.17 5,483 1,025.15 225,978 944.25
67 258,061 974.57 6,339 1,061.31 251,722 972.39
68 282,835 1,003.22 7,032 1,101.35 275,803 1,000.71
69 279,509 1,028.21 7,101 1,130.99 272,408 1,025.53
70 256,754 1,043.98 6,498 1,126.27 250,256 1,041.84
71 246,038 1,058.17 6,363 1,140.37 239,675 1,055.99
72 244,279 1,064.28 6,380 1,141.13 237,899 1,062.22
73 253,623 1,073.96 6,852 1,158.45 246,771 1,071.62
74 248,854 1,084.78 6,790 1,154.37 242,064 1,082.83
75 254,095 1,084.09 7,252 1,152.64 246,843 1,082.07
76 257,478 1,091.73 7,640 1,144.35 249,838 1,090.12
77 251,945 1,105.38 7,238 1,147.33 244,707 1,104.14
78 236,462 1,120.19 6,486 1,136.85 229,976 1,119.72
79 238,136 1,137.39 6,141 1,139.79 231,995 1,137.33
80 238,098 1,146.18 6,091 1,132.19 232,007 1,146.55
81 241,973 1,157.96 6,232 1,134.86 235,741 1,158.58
82 231,090 1,170.53 5,671 1,139.03 225,419 1,171.32
83 224,875 1,187.21 5,090 1,149.86 219,785 1,188.07
84 217,452 1,200.92 4,750 1,129.98 212,702 1,202.50
85 205,190 1,211.96 4,581 1,146.40 200,609 1,213.45
86 189,488 1,227.45 3,887 1,147.66 185,601 1,229.12
87 180,080 1,234.19 3,846 1,149.06 176,234 1,236.04
88 160,385 1,245.38 3,684 1,155.73 156,701 1,247.49
89 142,967 1,256.15 3,173 1,141.58 139,794 1,258.75
90 129,299 1,273.91 3,142 1,149.68 126,157 1,277.00
91 108,319 1,293.49 2,714 1,165.75 105,605 1,296.77
92 82,766 1,308.48 1,921 1,164.10 80,845 1,311.91
93 67,550 1,335.38 1,292 1,220.40 66,258 1,337.63
94 51,327 1,344.81 880 1,244.76 50,447 1,346.55
95 35,517 1,341.34 600 1,236.05 34,917 1,343.14
96 25,680 1,328.74 484 1,220.98 25,196 1,330.81
97 19,787 1,300.22 352 1,230.52 19,435 1,301.48
98 13,542 1,279.90 275 1,215.32 13,267 1,281.23
99 & over 23,917 1,234.10 485 1,214.96 23,432 1,234.50
Total 6,688,064 1,099.03 162,706 1,117.31 6,525,358 1,098.57

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