Me: I live in Silicon Valley with my wife, child and cat. I have worked at Microsoft since I graduated from College, both in the Macintosh Business Unit on products such as Outlook Express, Entourage, IE, and Virtual PC and in Windows Live on Hotmail, Calendar and People. I am currently a Principal Lead Program Manager on the Windows Live Social Networking team. I basically manage a team of Program Managers responsible for delivering features to support our web and client applications. I've been blogging since 2001 and like to play around with .NET in my spare time working on projects such as dasBlog (the blog that powers this site) and Send to SmugMug (an application for uploading photos to SmugMug). I blog about a number of technology and productivity related topics.
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If the Roth 401K is an option for you, and you are not contributing to it, or are wondering if you should, I found a fantastic article by Vanguard that goes into great detail about this 401K plan.
Basically, what it amounts to is this. Do you think you will be in a higher tax bracket in retirement than you are now? Remember that money withdrawn from a Roth 401 will actually help to reduce your taxable income in retirement assuming you will have other forms of taxable income (normal 401k, pension etc). Also of note is that any corporate matching donations are still taxed for either type of plan.
One interesting wrinkle is if you are paying the AMT now. If you are that puts you in a potentially higher tax bracket now and the additional amount due for the AMT may not be reduced much relative to your normal tax liability with a pre-tax 401k. Something to think about. Because I live in California, have high property taxes + state income taxes, I'm pretty much going to be paying AMT till congress changes the tax law.
Anyway, read the article and decide for yourself. I think next year I'll be doing 50/50 traditional/roth.