Calculators

Practical tools to support better planning decisions. These are simplified models and for educational purposes only.

Retirement Healthcare Decision Tool
Retirement / Healthcare Planning
Explorer Tool
Understand how your health insurance changes before and after age 65.
Pension Lump Sum vs Lifetime Income
Explorer Tool
Answer a few questions to get a directionally correct recommendation.
Dormant 401(k) Rollover Decision Tool
Retirement / Employer Plans
Explorer Tool
Answer a few questions to see your best rollover path.
Annuity vs Bond Ladder vs Portfolio Income Tool
Explorer Tool
Compare income durability, inflation exposure, liquidity, taxes, and risk across three common retirement income approaches (educational only).
Monte Carlo Retirement Simulator
Run thousands of simulations to stress-test retirement spending and income decisions across market environments.
Safe Withdrawal Rate Simulator
Model retirement withdrawal strategies and portfolio longevity under different market sequences.
Sequence of Returns Risk Analyzer
Stress-test retirement withdrawals against early downturns to quantify depletion risk and mitigation options.
Portfolio Risk Alignment Analyzer
Compare your current mix vs. a glide-path recommendation generated from a 10-question tolerance assessment.
Social Security Analyzer
Compare monthly benefits, lifetime payouts, earnings test reductions, and tax exposure for claiming ages 62–70.
Roth Conversion Bracket Analyzer – 2026
Dial in a Roth conversion while staying inside your target 2026 marginal tax bracket.
Real Estate Rental Opportunity Cost Calculator
Compare keeping a rental vs. selling and investing the net proceeds—see equity, cashflows, and opportunity cost over time.
Retirement Readiness
Estimate whether your current savings and spending plan are on track for retirement.
Tax-Efficient Withdrawal (Arizona)
Compare Taxable → Pre-Tax → Roth and alternatives; project after-tax wealth and lifetime taxes.
RMD Calculator
Estimate required minimum distributions and project pre-tax balances through age 100 using IRS life expectancy tables.
Capital Gain & Loss Harvesting
Identify tax lots to harvest (losses or gains), estimate current-year tax impact, and compare long-term outcomes including step-up considerations.
Legacy Distribution Planner
Model inter-generational wealth transfer outcomes and the impact of taxes, account types, and strategies.
Retirement Readiness Scorecard
One-screen summary of savings, income, tax, and legacy—with action steps.
Compound Growth
Project future portfolio value based on contributions, time horizon, and expected returns.
Coming soon.
Roth Conversion Helper
Understand potential tax impact and long-term benefits of partial Roth conversions.

Portfolio Risk Alignment Analyzer

Match today's asset mix with your true risk capacity

Capture how you invest today, measure risk tolerance with 10 evidence-based questions, and see whether your current mix lines up with the recommended glide path.

1. Profile & balance
Basic demographics help calibrate the glide path adjustments.

Age guides how much to tilt toward bonds and cash.

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Formatting only—no data is saved.

2. Current asset allocation
Enter the percent of your portfolio in each sleeve. Must total 100%.

Equities

%
%
%
%
%

Fixed income & cash

%
%
%
Total allocation: 0% (needs to equal 100%)
3. Risk tolerance questionnaire
10 multiple-choice questions covering reactions to drawdowns, time horizon, and capacity for loss.

Answered 0 / 10

Q1. What would you do if your portfolio dropped 5% in a single month?

Q2. What would you do if your portfolio dropped 10% in a month?

Q3. What would you do if your portfolio dropped 20% over a year?

Q4. If markets fell 30%+, how comfortable are you riding through the drawdown?

Q5. How long until you expect to draw meaningfully from this portfolio?

Q6. How stable is your household income or pension coverage?

Q7. How many months of expenses do you have in cash reserves?

Q8. How would you describe your investment experience?

Q9. Which trade-off sounds most appealing today?

Q10. When markets become choppy, how do you typically react?

4. Results & recommendations
Compare current vs. recommended mix, plus blended return and downside risk.

Social Security Analyzer

Plot out claiming strategies in seconds

Enter your FRA, projected benefit, chosen claiming ages, and optional work/tax assumptions to see how monthly checks, cumulative lifetime benefits, and tax exposure shift.

Input panel
Group core assumptions and layer in optional working/tax details.

Core Social Security Inputs

Used to calculate cumulative lifetime benefits (default 90).

$

Your estimated monthly benefit when claiming at FRA.

Toggle on/off specific ages (62–70) to focus on the comparisons you care about.

Ages behind you are flagged as hypothetical—they're useful for benchmarking even though they're in the past.

Decision snapshot
Where monthly income and total lifetime benefits align with your longevity view.
Best at age 70
$3,472 / mo

Assuming you live to 90, claiming at age 70 produces approximately $833,280 in cumulative benefits. That's about $174,720 more than claiming at age 62.

Claim at 62

$1,960

Lifetime to 90: $658,560

Claim at 63

$2,100

Lifetime to 90: $680,400

Claim at 64

$2,240

Lifetime to 90: $698,880

You’re in a solid range—let’s make it resilient.
Even good projections benefit from a tax-aware, sequence-aware plan and a clear withdrawal or conversion strategy.
  • Your inputs suggest meaningful planning tradeoffs.
  • Small assumption changes can materially change outcomes.
  • A coordinated plan can reduce risk and improve efficiency.

Schedule a planning session to confirm you’re optimized and protected against downside scenarios.

Monthly benefit by claiming age
Official reduction (5/9 & 5/12 rules) and delayed-credit formulas applied automatically.

Age 62

Monthly benefit · $1,960

Past
Monthly check$1,960
Lifetime to 90$658,560

Age 63

Monthly benefit · $2,100

Past
Monthly check$2,100
Lifetime to 90$680,400

Age 64

Monthly benefit · $2,240

Monthly check$2,240
Lifetime to 90$698,880

Age 65

Monthly benefit · $2,427

Monthly check$2,427
Lifetime to 90$728,000

Age 66

Monthly benefit · $2,613

Monthly check$2,613
Lifetime to 90$752,640

Age 67

Monthly benefit · $2,800

Monthly check$2,800
Lifetime to 90$772,800

Age 68

Monthly benefit · $3,024

Monthly check$3,024
Lifetime to 90$798,336

Age 69

Monthly benefit · $3,248

Monthly check$3,248
Lifetime to 90$818,496

Age 70

Monthly benefit · $3,472

Recommended
Monthly check$3,472
Lifetime to 90$833,280
Break-even checkpoints
How long you need to live for a later claim to overtake an earlier one.

62 vs 67

Age 78.7

Around age 78.7 the total collected at 67 overtakes claiming at 62. Living past this point favors waiting.

67 vs 70

Age 82.5

Around age 82.5 the total collected at 70 overtakes claiming at 67. Living past this point favors waiting.

62 vs 70

Age 80.4

Around age 80.4 the total collected at 70 overtakes claiming at 62. Living past this point favors waiting.

Earnings test impact
Shows withheld benefits using today's SSA limits ($22,320 and $59,520) if you plan to work.

Turn on the “Working While Receiving Benefits” toggle to model earnings-test reductions.

Taxable portion checkpoint
Uses provisional income rules (0%, up to 50%, up to 85%) for your filing status.
0% taxable

$0 of benefits

We assume annual Social Security benefits of $41,664 based on the currently recommended claiming age. Adding other taxable income ($0) and tax-exempt interest ($0) helps identify whether you fall into the 0%, 50%, or 85% inclusion zone.

Provisional income$20,832
Base threshold$25,000
85% threshold$34,000

If your income picture changes, update the optional inputs above to instantly see whether more (or less) of your benefits become taxable.

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Roth Conversion Bracket Analyzer · Tax Year 2026

Plan Roth conversions without hopping brackets

Lock in 2026 federal brackets, estimate the tax drag of a conversion, and see how much room you still have before stepping into the next marginal rate.

Inputs
$

Enter your projected 2026 AGI before any Roth conversion.

$

Conversion amount is treated as additional ordinary income in 2026.

0$1,000,000.00

Taxable income (before conversion)

$103,900.00

Total tax (before conversion)

$17,570.00

Marginal bracket (before conversion)

22%

Taxable income (after conversion)

$103,900.00

Total tax (after conversion)

$17,570.00

Incremental tax from conversion

$0.00

Effective rate on conversion

0%

Room before next bracket

$1,800.00

You’re in a solid range—let’s make it resilient.
Even good projections benefit from a tax-aware, sequence-aware plan and a clear withdrawal or conversion strategy.
  • Your inputs suggest meaningful planning tradeoffs.
  • Small assumption changes can materially change outcomes.
  • A coordinated plan can reduce risk and improve efficiency.

Schedule a planning session to confirm you’re optimized and protected against downside scenarios.

2026 Federal Tax – Before Roth Conversion
Base Case

Taxable income, total tax, and effective rates assume no Roth conversion.

Taxable income

$103,900.00

Total tax

$17,570.00

Effective tax rate

16.9%

Marginal bracket

22%

10% · $12,400.00
12% · $38,000.00
22% · $53,500.00
24% · $0.00
32% · $0.00
35% · $0.00
37% · $0.00
2026 Federal Tax – After Roth Conversion
With Conversion

Incorporates the selected conversion amount as additional ordinary income.

Taxable income

$103,900.00

Total tax

$17,570.00

Incremental tax

$0.00

Effective rate on conversion

0%

Marginal bracket after conversion

22%

Conversion in current bracket

$0.00

Conversion spilling higher

$0.00

10% · $12,400.00
12% · $38,000.00
22% · $53,500.00
24% · $0.00
32% · $0.00
35% · $0.00
37% · $0.00

Based on your inputs, your current marginal bracket is 22%.

You can add approximately $1,800.00 of ordinary income (including conversions) before you enter the 24% bracket.

With the selected conversion amount of $0.00, about $0.00 stays in your current bracket and $0.00 is taxed at higher rates.

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Real Estate Rental Opportunity Cost Calculator

Compare keeping a rental vs. selling and investing

A simplified 20-year (adjustable) projection of property equity, rental cash flows, and the opportunity cost of investing the same capital in a model portfolio.

Inputs
Enter today's property snapshot and your forward-looking growth assumptions. Values are not saved.

1) Property basics

As-of today inputs (no tax modeling in v1).

Total price you paid for the property.

Total depreciation already claimed on your tax returns for this property (optional for now; used for context only in v1).

What the property would likely sell for today.

Outstanding loan balance today.

Current annual interest rate on your mortgage.

Exclude taxes and insurance; just the loan payment.

2) Annual property carrying costs

Assumed to grow with rent growth rate in v1.

Ongoing repairs, upkeep, landscaping, etc.

Major upfront work, catch-up repairs, or transaction costs you are treating as an initial out-of-pocket.

3) Rental income assumptions

Vacancy reduces effective rent.

What you collect when the unit is occupied.

Percent of the year you expect the property not to be rented (e.g., 5–10%).

4) Market & growth assumptions

These drive the long-term outcomes.

Default reflects long-term average U.S. home price growth. Adjust for your market.

Expected average annual increase in rent over the next 20 years.

5–30 years.

5) Portfolio comparison

Compare against Balanced Portfolio (expected 7%/yr).

Reinvest Net Rental Cash Flows into Portfolio?

If enabled, we assume all positive net cashflows from the property are invested into the chosen portfolio each year.

Estimated selling costs assumed at 6% (not editable in v1).
Results
Enter inputs, then calculate to see the opportunity cost.

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