Please enter your projected future earnings in the grids below. Enter all earnings you will pay Social Security taxes on in the Covered Earnings grid. If you will have earnings that you will not pay Social Security taxes on, enter these in the Non-Covered Earnings grid.
Select a row in the grid and type in the earnings amount (expressed in today's dollars) for that year. If you want to model your future earnings increasing only to keep pace with your inflation estimate from the Economics Assumptions page, select a 0% real growth rate to the right of the grid and press Grow. You can model increases over and above inflation by increasing the real growth rate.
You cannot enter earnings past your retirement date, so if you are unable to enter earnings, please be sure the Retirement Date field to the left of the grid is set correctly.
Future covered earnings make it impossible to accurately determine the recalculation of benefits if you inferred your past covered earnings using your current or estimated Social Security retirement benefit. If you choose this option, you will not be able to enter future covered earnings. If you find that you need to enter future covered earnings, you can return to the Past Covered Earnings screen, clear your inferred past earnings, and then enter them either manually or by importing them from Social Security. You will then be able to enter future covered earnings.