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Originally Posted by Lubicon
FWIW, both the FAA and also Canada have a mandatory retirement age of 56 for ATC controllers, mainly due to the stress levels. Europe is generally 60.
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See page 16 here though, many retire early.
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History shows that not all controllers retire when they first become eligible. Recent data shows that 24 percent of controllers who first became eligible actually retired that year. The FAA observed that many controllers delay retirement until they get closer to the mandatory retirement age of 56. Because most controllers are retirement eligible at the age of 50, they typically reach mandatory retirement age in their seventh year of eligibility.
These trends are seen in Figure 3.4 below, which shows that fewer than half of retirements occur in the first 3 years of eligibility. Despite the increased likelihood of delayed retirement, the majority of controllers still leave the controller workforce prior to reaching the mandatory age.
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https://www.faa.gov/about/office_org...-workforce.pdf