Ofc can't cover everyone. Is never meant to be, over 30 years, the epf rate always has been close to 5, some touching 6. I won't say is not possible. U can play the calculator and lower the rate, even at 4%,anyone will have been close to 1m mark.
If u look at the last deposit, it is depositing around 20k,aka 80k yearly income. That's 6.7k a month salary. This haven't account into bonuses, that will be contributed to epf as well and inflation overall (salary can increase due to inflation)
If a person can't work his way up to 6.7k salary when he is 60 with a degree, I think is not epf has failed, that person fail his life who can't even earn 3% yearly increment.
I have only 4 years of experience, already I'm close to 6.7k, a person who can't do it in his 60s? With all those experience? No excuse for his own complacency then.
Besides, when I had 2.5k as fresh I'm able to save 12k per year after epf deduction. Is an personal excuse/incommitment not to work his way there. So in case one has ceiling salary, she should have contributed more to savings, other than epf to secure his golden age.
Or the way I see, spent it all during 50s when partial withdrawal is allowed. Which is often the case.
Epf is the best example of what dca works, don't time the market, do it consistently, the long duration is with you. Even if u miss the mark hitting 1m (if that person is such a failure can't hit 6.7k salary with degree at 60,god! he is awful), he will still have at least 600 to 800k of epf money, which is crazy amount.
EPF releases a statement somewhere only, 1 % of ppl have savings over 700k, this 1% is really not that hard to achieve.
https://www.thecalculatorsite.com/compound?...rly&ip=&c=1&di=Assume a person at age 35, age 25 to 34 he has 0 epf contributions what so ever, he used 10 years to reach 5k salary as u mentioned,thrn stagnant till he is age 60. (I have never seen ppl salary stagnant for 25y, he must have fuck up big big time).
Yet being a dumb ass as he is, at age 60, he has 610k if epf is 4% PA, which is crazy low compare to the usual epf performance.
610k for being ignorant of his finance at age 60? Not too shabby. He also reach the top 5% contributor in epf already.
agree with you that one only have themselves to blame for failing to plan their retirement properly given the lonnngggg working career one can have during the 30 years to save up enough for retirement.
but to be honest, 600k to 800k is not a crazy amount in 20 years' time if you factor in inflation.
I still remember a bowl of noodle which i always eat in KL was only 4 bucks 10 years ago. fast forward 10 years now, the same bowl of noodle is going for 8 bucks.
so imagine in another 10 years time. 800k is not that much actually.