About a minute

Two questions, then three numbers about you.

No sign up, no card, nothing stored anywhere but this browser.

Whatever is realistic. Small is fine, and small is the point.
Number one, what it becomes

By the time you are 60.

 

The tool behind this
Our compounding calculator, plus six others for loans, retirement and tax.
Number two, the cost of waiting

Start five years later.

 

Same monthly amount, same assumption, five fewer years of it. Nothing else changed.
Why this happens
The early years do the heavy lifting. There is a short lesson on it, one of eight.
Number three, the honest one

What it is actually worth.

 

Why we show you this
Most places show the big number and stop. Prices rise too, and a plan that ignores that is not a plan. This is the thinking behind our resilience check.
What you just saw was one of ten

Ten ways we make you better off.

Three numbers took a minute. These take the rest of the decisions off your plate: what to do first, what to do with what you have, and what to stop worrying about.

Every one of these is free and works without an account. An account just remembers your answers so you are not starting over each time.

Every figure here is an illustration from assumptions we printed next to it, not a forecast and not personal advice. M is an educational planning tool. How we handle your information.