Americans weigh a lot of factors when deciding when to retire: when Social Security kicks in, how much they have saved and, of course, whether they're willing and able to continue working. When it comes to that last calculation, the age at which workers decide to retire varies widely across different professions.
As Tax Day looms, for example, many of the nation's tax preparers will be preparing returns well after they became eligible for retirement benefits. According to our calculations, 14.2% of tax preparers are older than 66, the highest of 250 occupations for which sufficient data was available.
