- From today until you retire, it grows your savings and adds your yearly contributions, all at 3% a year above inflation, the worst 30-year real return US stocks have delivered since 1871, not the ~6.5% median.
- After you retire, it withdraws your spending (grossed up for taxes at a blended ~12% rate), adds Social Security once you claim it, and keeps growing what's left at that same conservative return.
- Your retirement age is the earliest age where the money still reaches age 90 on that worst-case return. Retire earlier and it runs short; this is the floor.
This is a deliberately conservative estimate on a single worst-case return path. The full app goes further still, adding your real tax brackets and year-by-year healthcare costs.
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