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Retirement Age Optimizer

Find the earliest age your savings plan can fund your retirement, and compare every retirement age side by side — corpus needed, corpus you'd have, the monthly income it supports and the surplus or shortfall.

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Your result Live

Earliest Age You Can Retire

61

Your plan builds ₹7,13,58,586 against ₹7,03,57,427 needed

Monthly Income It Supports (first year)
₹2,76,847 — ₹60,854 in today's money
Years of Saving Left
26
Years in Retirement
24
Corpus needed vs corpus you'd have, by retirement age

Retirement age comparison

11 rows
Retire atCorpus neededCorpus you'd haveMonthly income it supportsStatus
36₹2,99,62,606₹25,89,535₹5,497Short by ₹2,73,73,071
40₹3,53,49,018₹56,33,089₹12,795Short by ₹2,97,15,929
45₹4,29,80,620₹1,16,10,644₹29,026Short by ₹3,13,69,976
50₹5,14,52,654₹2,14,45,567₹59,933Short by ₹3,00,07,087
55₹6,03,48,627₹3,76,27,055₹1,19,978Short by ₹2,27,21,572
60₹6,88,29,085₹6,42,50,600₹2,40,383Short by ₹45,78,485
61 ★₹7,03,57,427₹7,13,58,586₹2,76,847On track (+₹10,01,160)
65₹7,53,75,011₹10,80,54,558₹4,94,018On track (+₹3,26,79,547)
70₹7,73,98,704₹18,01,25,602₹10,73,244On track (+₹10,27,26,898)
75₹7,06,58,946₹29,87,04,734₹26,08,920On track (+₹22,80,45,788)
80₹4,83,88,440₹49,38,04,039₹84,28,071On track (+₹44,54,15,599)

An estimate from the assumptions you entered, not a guaranteed outcome.

How this is calculated

For each age A: Gap(A) = Required(A) − Projected(A); earliest age = smallest A with Gap(A) ≤ 0

Required(A)
Corpus funding inflation-rising expenses from A to the planning age
Projected(A)
Savings plus monthly saving grown until A
Monthly income
First-year inflation-rising income the projected corpus can sustain

Each extra working year helps twice: your savings get another year to grow, and retirement is a year shorter. The optimizer checks every age from next year up to 80 with the same assumptions and reports the first one where your projected corpus covers the corpus needed.

Assumptions & sources

  • Savings grow monthly at the pre-retirement return ÷ 12, with contributions at the start of each month; any step-up applies every 12 months.
  • In retirement, monthly expenses (net of other income) are withdrawn and rise with inflation; the corpus needed is their present value at the real return, (1 + return) ÷ (1 + inflation) − 1, compounded monthly.
  • Returns and inflation are constant averages — real markets vary year to year, and a bad sequence early in retirement matters most.
  • Taxes on withdrawals and investment gains are not deducted.
  • Ages are checked in whole years up to 80; the table shows every 5th age plus the earliest viable one.
  1. 1CFA Program Curriculum — Private Wealth Management: retirement planning and the time value of money — CFA Institute
  2. 2Retirement planning investor education — PFRDA — Pension Fund Regulatory and Development Authority
  3. 3Determining Withdrawal Rates Using Historical Data (Bengen, 1994) — Journal of Financial Planning

Calculator ID FIN-RETPLAN-AGE-001 · version 2.0.0

Common questions

Why does retiring later help so much?

You save for one more year, your existing corpus compounds for one more year, and the corpus has to fund one fewer year of retirement.

What does 'monthly income it supports' mean?

The first-year monthly withdrawal — rising with inflation afterwards — that the projected corpus can pay until your planning age.