Retirement Letters at The Retirement Cafe
Including Sample
Retirement
Letters and a Retirement Letter
Template
How to Write a Retirement
Letter
Perhaps like many soon-to-be retired
individuals, you are ready to submit a retirement letter to proudly announce 'I Am Outta Here" to live life the way
it was meant to be lived
and live your wants as to where to
retire.
Retirement letters are not all that hard to write. If you want to formal,
a retirement letter should start with the particulars of the applicant followed by those of the employer/head
of the department.
Incidentally, retirement letters or sample
retirement letters are sometimes referred to as "goodbye letters for work."
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The main body of your letter of intent to retire can be
divided into short paragraphs with each paragraph focusing on specific information relating to work and your
retirement
planning.
For instance, the first paragraph can inform your organization that you
intend to retire. You can also provide the effective date of your intent to retire, the years of career
service that you have put in, and whether you want to continue to contribute to your company's medical,
dental, and life insurance programs (if applicable to your organization).
In another paragraph of your retirement letter, you can thank your
organization for the cooperation and the opportunities provided by the company and fellow workers during
your years of your work in the company/organization.
The last paragraph can offer your
assistance to the organization during the period of transition and the details of the company's
property returned by you. You can provide a forwarding address and an e-mail address so the organization can
contact you after you leave the organization.
Some More
Tips for How
to
Write a
Retirement Letter
1. Include the following items in your
letter of intent to retire:
- Your name
- Date of the retirement letter
- Corporate Employee ID Number
- Years of service
- Official date of retirement
- Whether to continue medical, dental and other retirement benefit
contributions
- Whether you want to be of some small assistance after you retire
2. The letter of retirement should be clearly written with no
opportunity for misunderstanding by the employer.
3. The retirement letter should be written in a graceful and cordial tone.
4. Leave a forwarding address in your retirement letter.
Here are some simple
sample retirement letters that you can use as retirement templates to create your own letter of intent to
retire.
Sample Retirement Letter
#1
Dear Mr. /Ms. Last Name:
After having just read
The Joy of Not Working: A Book for the Retired, Unemployed, and
Overworked by Ernie J. Zelinski a few years
ago, I considered retiring, but I put it off for a while.
So considering this retirement advice and after
taking all of Zelinski's wisdom to heart, this letter of intent to retire is to inform you
that I intend to leave my position of marketing manager effective January
1, 2015.
After serving the company for over thirty years, I wish
to take this opportunity to extend my gratitude for your fine leadership, support, and
cooperation all this time. I would also like to express my appreciation to all the other staff
including my colleagues for their support and friendship throughout my stay here.
I would like to continue contributing to the benefits plan and
insurance coverage in my retirement.
Note that I am providing my forwarding address as well as my
e-mail address on the attached page for your records for any future correspondence with
me.
Sincerely,
[Your name and signature]
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Sample Retirement Letter
#2
The followiing letter of intent to retire can be used by employees who intend to
retire at the end of their careers and want to formally inform their employer.
Of course, depending on employer and the employee, every individual retiree will have a
unique situation, circumstances, and terms and conditions of service. Thus, the same retirement letter cannot
be perfect for employee. The letter of retirement can be customized easily according to needs of
the individual employee.
You can copy and paste this sample retirement letter into Microsoft Word or Work Perfect and
then modify the names and dates as they pertain to you.
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Dear Manager:
After I read the
Quintessential
Careers Review of How to Retire Happy, Wild, and
Free, I purchased this
wonderful retirement book by Ernie J.
Zelinski.
This was the
retirement book that ultimately helped me make a big decision in my
life.
Ernie Zelinski tackles retirement with the glee of someone
in the desert who finds a bottle of chilled water.
There are several keys to a happy retirement, he says,
including:
- You are never too young to retire.
- Retiring too late means you don’t get another chance to do it
right.
- Your wealth is where your friends are.
- Be happy while you are alive because you are a long time
dead.
- It’s better to live rich than to die rich.
- Retirement
health is one of the best retirement
gifts that you can give yourself.
- Helping others can make life more worthwhile and you happier than
you have ever been.
- Forget how old you are — this becomes more important the older you
get.
- Don’t leave this world with songs unsung that you would like to
sing.
- Retirement is the beginning of life — not the end.
After reading the book, I realized that my retirement time
is now.
Please accept this as my letter of intent to
retire effective October 30, 2015 after serving Zen Air Inc. for 30 years and 5
months.
I wish to take this opportunity to extend my gratitude
to everyone at ZenAir for the cooperation, understanding, and support during my
employment here. I would also like to express my appreciation to the management and my other
colleagues for their support and friendship throughout my stay here.
Please forward to me all the necessary documentation
and information pertinent to the retirement process and information on the complete benefit plan
for retiring employees.
Many thanks to all of you again. It has been a
privilege to work with you and a memory I will always cherish.
My very best wishes to everyone.
Sincerely,
Ben Airdrie
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If you are about to submit
your retirement letter, no doubt you would like to know . . .
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The Secrets to an Effortless, Happy Retirement
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The Secrets to Having
Everything You Want in Retirement
Then give yourself the most
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Retirement Quotes
to Use in Your Retirement Letters
Quotations about retirement can add humor and body to retirement letters.
Here are some of my favorite retirement quotations that you may want to
use.
#1 of Four Retirement Quotations
to Use in Letters for Retirement
By the age of 65, most of us
have accomplished whatever work-related goals we are going to reach. If you haven't done it by then,
chances are you aren't going to do it. Take the retirement, take the pension, take the Social Security, and
sail off into the sunset.
— Sue Lasky
#2 of Four Retirement Quotes to Use in Sample Retirement Letters
I retired early for health reasons — my company was sick of
me and I was sick of them.
— Unknown wise person
#3 of Four Retirement Quotes to Use in Goodbye Letters for Work
Retirement is wonderful if you have two
essentials — much to live on and much to live for. I believe
that I now have both.
— Author Unknown
#4 of Four Retirement Quotations to Use in a Job Farewell Letter
The money’s no better in retirement but the hours are!
— Unknown wise person
Here are some quotes about letters that may help you write your
retirement letter:
It does me good to write a letter which is not a response to
a demand, a gratuitous letter, so to speak, which has accumulated in me like the waters of a reservoir.
— Henry Miller
A person who can write a long letter with ease, cannot write
ill.
— Jane Austen
Letters are above all useful as a means of expressing the
ideal self; and no other method of communication is quite so good for this purpose. . . . In letters we can
reform without practice, beg without humiliation, snip and shape embarrassing experiences to the measure of
our own desires. . . .
— Elizabeth Hardwick
Or don't you like to write letters. I do because it's such a
swell way to keep from working and yet feel you've done something.
— Ernest Hemingway
Sir, more than kisses, letters mingle souls.
For, thus friends absent speak.
— John Donne
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