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AIME

Average Indexed Monthly Earnings — your wage history in one monthly number.

Social Security indexes your lifetime taxed earnings for wage growth, averages your highest 35 years, and divides by 420 months to get your Average Indexed Monthly Earnings. Your AIME feeds the bend-point formula that produces your basic benefit (PIA).

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