Hitting Your Retirement Number Is Not Your Cue to Retire: You Still Have This Question to Answer

Four piggy banks lined up next to a target with an arrow in the bull's-eye.

Nearly every retirement calculator is built to answer the same question: How far am I from having enough saved to retire?

It's an important question, and if you've spent the last 30 or 40 years investing diligently for retirement, you've probably checked your progress more times than you can count.