Relevance: the issues of studying subjective qualities of the pre-retiree’s personality, including their fi nancial autonomy, are of particular relevance due to economic instability and uncertainty. The present article is devoted to the problem of measuring fi nancial autonomy in the situation of retirement planning which is one of the indicators of economic and psychological maturity of a person. The purpose of the work is to conduct a psychometric test of the original author’s questionnaire “Individual’s Financial Autonomy Scale” (T. V. Drobysheva, I. V. Larionov, S.