Retirement Calculator

Turn today's monthly expenses, your age and an inflation assumption into the retirement corpus you may need — and the monthly SIP that could build it.

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Retirement corpus needed

₹7,63,08,179

≈ ₹7.63 Crore at age 60, lasting 25 years

Monthly SIP needed until retirement

₹21,618

Monthly expenses at age 60

₹2,87,175

Or invest once today

₹21,22,641

Existing savings grown to retirement

₹0

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Building the corpus

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Example calculation

₹50,000 a month today becomes about ₹2,87,175 a month at age 60 after 30 years of 6% inflation. Paying that — rising with inflation — for 25 years while the balance earns 7% needs roughly ₹7,63,08,179. Reaching it from today at 12% means a SIP of about ₹21,618 per month.

Every input here is an assumption. Life expectancy, inflation and returns are unknowable in advance. Use a range of values and treat the corpus as a planning anchor, not a prediction.

How the retirement corpus is estimated

Three steps. First, today's monthly expenses are inflated to the year you retire. Second, the corpus is sized so that inflation-growing monthly withdrawals can be paid from it, while the remaining balance earns your post-retirement return, until your life-expectancy age. Third, the SIP formula is reversed to find the monthly investment that reaches that corpus by retirement.

Formulas

Expenses at retirement: E × (1 + inflation)years to retire

Corpus (growing annuity due, monthly): Eret × [1 − qn] / [1 − q], where q = (1 + g) / (1 + r), g monthly inflation, r monthly post-retirement return, n months in retirement.

SIP needed: the goal planner formula applied to the corpus, after growing any existing savings.

Why two different returns?

Before retirement most people can hold growth assets for decades; after retirement the portfolio usually shifts towards stability and lower expected returns. Using one number for both phases hides that change. The gap between post-retirement return and inflation is what determines how fast a corpus erodes — model withdrawals in detail with the SWP calculator.

Assumptions & Limitations

  • Expenses grow at a constant inflation rate before and after retirement.
  • Withdrawals happen at the start of each month; the balance earns the post-retirement return.
  • The corpus is planned to reach zero at the life-expectancy age; no bequest is modelled.
  • Pensions, rental income, medical shocks and taxes are not modelled.

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Please note: Returns and values shown are illustrations based on the assumptions you select and are not guaranteed. This tool is for education only and is not investment, tax, or financial advice.

Methodology last reviewed: 1 June 2026