How much notice to give regarding retirement?

I gave 4 months rather than the 3 required in the civil service and they delayed giving me anything for 2 months after my retiral!!! Was incandescent….
Of course civil service pensions is a contracted out entity as privatised entities give so much better service! (Hypocrisy alert!!)

Both my DH and I gave more notice than was officially required. We both liked our jobs and colleagues and wanted to help them plan for our departure.

As said above, the minimum will be in your contract, though it is handy if employers have more warning.
I was on a teaching contract so had to give a term's notice, but made it clear that it would be my last year in the October of the academic year, and retired at the end of the Summer term.

You could always have an informal 'heads up - this is what I'm thinking' chat beforehand and then your formal written notice at the specified time if that would be comfortable for you.

More importantly, look forward to your retirement, make plans and enjoy it to the full. It's so well worth waiting for!

Unless you dislike your employer just let them know once you have definitely decided. They can start to find someone else and everyone will be pleased for you and have time to plan a leaving celebration.

Where I work people generally start talking about it and say a long time in advance and mostly give more notice than they are contractually obliged to, but it is a good place to work.

I had to give 3 months notice to NHS before retirement. Gives time to get paperwork sorted, and pension put in place.

I worked for a national company and had to do it online after speaking to my line manager, I did it six weeks before my leaving date as I was staying a few weeks beyond my 66th birthday to cover other employees’ holiday absence, but IIRC the requirement in my contract was only two weeks. I then emailed my line manager to let her know the dates, she approved my resignation and arranged for my retirement pack and pension application to be emailed to me, and she printed hard copies for me too.

Enjoy your retirement! Best thing ever!

I gave five week’s notice when I retired at 60. My contract said 4 weeks. My line manager said he needed more notice so I pointed out that if I had been on an academic, instead of an admin contract, I would have had to give him three months notice. Look at your contract and that will tell you how much notice you have to give. If you want to be nice you can give them more notice than is legally required but you don’t have to do so .

Totally depends on your contract. However, if you are in a job which requires training/experience etc then it is kind to your employer to let them know earlier to allow them to find a replacement and not leave them short-staffed.

As you say, it must vary a lot depending on the job you do and the culture in your workplace.

I was just thinking everyone I worked with knew when one of us was going to retire. It was practically all we talked about as our 60th approached!!!

It will say in your contract of employment how much notice is required.

I am also planning on retiring next year. My contact says I need to give one month's notice. I am planning to be generous and give two months.

Doesn't it depend on what job you are doing and if a replacement will be needed. In teaching it was usually around Christmas to go the next summer, giving time to advertise and recruit a replacement. I think you could delay until the Easter term, but you weren't massively popular if you held off until the last moment. Isn't it usual to discuss the matter with bosses and colleagues?

Ask your employer?….It’s usually a month.

Perhaps it is written in your contract of employment? It used to be dependent on how often one was paid e.g. Weekly - one week's notice; monthly - one month's notice etc. That was when I was in business years ago. Probably much different now. How about asking HR?