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Updated 2026-05-30 · Planning · Educational use only ·

Net Worth & Cashflow Life Planner

Project your net worth and cashflow year by year across your whole life.

Net worth projection planner: map income, expenses, debts, assets and life events to see your cashflow and net worth year by year. Free, private, in-browser.

What this tool does

The Net Worth & Cashflow Life Planner projects how your money could evolve over your whole life, year by year. Add blocks for income, expenses, debts, assets, savings goals and one-off events, place life milestones (a home, a child, a career break, retirement) on a timeline, and watch a year-by-year projection of your cashflow and cumulative net worth update in real time. It illustrates outcomes under the assumptions you enter — investment growth, inflation, and an optional flat effective tax rate — and shows a today's-money and a future-money view side by side. Everything runs in your browser; no account, no sign-up, and nothing leaves your device. The planner is an educational illustration of compound growth, debt amortization and milestone sequencing, not financial advice.


Runs in your browser — the math happens on your device, not our servers. Privacy
Start from a template:

Assumptions

Investment growth6%
Inflation3%
Years to project30 yrs
Effective tax rate (optional)0%

Build your plan

Edit any cell. Reorder with the arrows or drag. Click for timing & monthly options. Add rows below.

ItemAmountRate / Growth
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$
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$
a
$

Add a row

Life events

Drag a pin along the timeline to move an event; everything recalculates.

3038455360

No events yet — add one above.

Scenarios

Save up to 4 snapshots to overlay on the chart and compare.

Projected net worth at age 60

$1,770,054

Peak $1,770,054Low $0● Funded to horizon

Net worth over time

$0$443K$885K$1.3M$1.8M3038455360

What your net worth is made of

AssetsDebt
$1.8M0304560

Cashflow by year

$21K0-$21K304560

Where year 1 income goes

Expenses $30,900Surplus $20,100

Year-by-year

AgeIncomeExpensesNet cashflowNet worth
30$50,000$30,000$20,000$30,000
33$53,060$32,782$20,279$99,998
36$56,308$35,822$20,487$184,110
39$59,755$39,143$20,611$284,780
42$63,412$42,773$20,639$404,879
45$67,293$46,739$20,554$547,778
48$71,412$51,073$20,339$717,435
51$75,783$55,809$19,974$918,509
54$80,422$60,984$19,438$1,156,477
57$85,344$66,639$18,706$1,437,793
60$90,568$72,818$17,750$1,770,054

These figures are an educational illustration based on the assumptions you enter, not a forecast or financial advice. Results compound your inputs and hold them steady unless a life event changes them. All calculation runs in your browser.

Formula Used
Assets compounded at the growth rate to year t
Cumulative net cashflow (income less expenses, debt payments and contributions), compounded at the growth rate
Outstanding debt balances after amortization to year t

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Disclaimer

Results are estimates for educational purposes only. They do not constitute financial advice. Consult a qualified professional before making financial decisions.

A free net worth and cashflow planner for your whole life

This free financial life planner projects your whole financial life year by year. It works as a net worth calculator, a cashflow projection tool, a savings and debt timeline, and a retirement and financial-independence planner in one place. Enter your income, expenses, debts, assets and goals, add life events like a home, a child, a career break or retirement, and the planner shows your projected net worth over time, your annual cashflow, and where your money goes each year.

Build your plan from blocks

The planner is built from blocks you control. Add income, expenses, debts, assets, savings goals, recurring items and one-off events, rename them, reorder them by drag or with the arrow keys, and remove any you do not need. Each row can be set to a yearly or monthly amount and given its own start and end year, so a salary that begins at 25 and a mortgage that ends at 55 both sit on the same timeline.

Assumptions you control

Assumptions are yours to set. Drag the sliders for investment growth, inflation, the projection horizon and an optional flat tax rate, and every chart updates in real time. One-click Optimistic, Average and Pessimistic presets switch the whole assumption set at once, and a today's-money toggle flips the projection between nominal and inflation-adjusted (real) terms so you can see purchasing power, not just headline figures.

A life-event timeline

The life-event timeline turns this from a calculator into a planner. Drag a pin along the age axis to place a house purchase, a new child, a career break or retirement, and the whole projection downstream recalculates around it. Each event can change your income, your expenses, or apply a one-off cost or windfall in the year it happens.

Charts that tell the story

Several views tell the three core stories. A net worth line chart with gridlines, age labels, hover tooltips and milestone markers shows the long arc; a composition chart breaks that total into assets above the line and debt below it; a cashflow bar chart shows each year as a surplus or shortfall; and a money-flow (Sankey) diagram with a year slider shows exactly where one year's income is allocated across expenses, debt, savings and surplus.

Monte Carlo and uncertainty

For uncertainty, the Monte Carlo view runs a thousand projections with the annual return varied around your assumption and reports the share of runs that stay funded to your horizon, alongside low, median and high outcomes. It is a measure of how sensitive the plan is to market variation, framed as an illustration rather than a prediction.

Compare up to four scenarios

Scenario comparison lets you save up to four versions of a plan and overlay them on the net worth chart in different colours, with the difference against your current plan shown for each. It is a quick way to compare a conservative path against a growth path, or to see what retiring earlier, saving more, or clearing a debt sooner does to the long-run picture.

How to use the planner

To use the planner, start by picking a template that fits your situation so the canvas is never blank: graduate, growing family, pre-retirement, FIRE or freelancer. Adjust the rows to your own numbers, set your assumptions with the sliders or a preset, and add any life events on the timeline. Read the projected net worth headline, scan the charts, and open the money-flow and Monte Carlo tabs for more detail. Save a scenario, change something, and save another to compare. When you are happy, export the year-by-year table to PDF or CSV, or copy a shareable link that encodes the whole plan in the URL.

Private by design

Everything is calculated in your browser and saved to local storage on your own device. There is no account, no sign-up and no server round-trip, so your figures stay private, and a shared link carries the plan itself rather than anything stored about you. Undo and redo let you explore freely, and the plan reloads exactly as you left it.

Example Scenario

Starting from $10,000 in savings on $50,000 income and $30,000 expenses, this plan projects a net worth of $50,000.00 over 1 years years.

Inputs

Current Age:30
Years to Project:1 years
Annual Income:$50,000
Annual Expenses:$30,000
Current Savings & Investments:$10,000
Investment Growth Rate:0%
Inflation Rate:0%
Annual Income Growth:0%
Effective Tax Rate (optional):0%
Expected Result$50,000.00

This example uses typical values for illustration. Adjust the inputs above to match a specific situation and see how the result changes.

Sources & Methodology

Methodology

The planner projects each year independently: income grows at the entered rate and has an optional flat effective tax rate applied; expenses inflate at the entered inflation rate; debts accrue interest and reduce by their repayment; assets and surplus cashflow compound at the entered investment growth rate; and savings goals contribute their target spread over the years remaining. Net worth for each year is assets plus accumulated cash less outstanding debt. The today's-money view divides nominal figures by inflation compounded to that year. The Monte Carlo view resamples the annual return around the entered mean and a volatility assumption to illustrate a distribution of outcomes. The core is jurisdiction-neutral and models no specific tax system.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do I project my net worth over time?
Add your income, expenses, debts and assets as blocks, set an investment growth rate and inflation rate, then choose how many years to project. The planner compounds your assets, amortizes your debts and accumulates your surplus cashflow to show a net-worth figure for each year.
What will my savings be worth in 20 years?
Enter your current savings and an assumed annual growth rate, set the horizon to 20 years, and read the net-worth line at year 20. Use the today's-money toggle to see the figure adjusted for inflation, which shows its real purchasing power rather than the nominal balance.
Does this planner handle tax?
Only as a single optional flat effective tax rate applied to income. It is deliberately jurisdiction-neutral and contains no country-specific tax brackets, allowances or rules, so the same projection works anywhere. Enter the average rate that fits your situation, or leave it at zero.
Is my data private?
Yes. The whole projection runs in your browser and is saved to local storage on your own device. There is no account and nothing is sent to a server. A shared plan is encoded directly into the link, so the data stays with you.
What does the Monte Carlo view show?
It runs many projections with the annual return varied around your assumption to illustrate a range of possible outcomes and the share of runs that stay funded to your horizon. It is an illustration of uncertainty, not a prediction or a recommendation.
Can I compare different financial scenarios side by side?
You can compare up to four scenarios at once. Save a version of your plan, change your assumptions or blocks, and save another; each saved scenario overlays on the net worth chart in its own colour with the difference against your current plan shown alongside, so you can compare a conservative path, a growth path and a FIRE goal side by side.
What does the Monte Carlo retirement simulation show?
The Monte Carlo view runs around a thousand projections with the annual investment return varied around your assumption, then reports the share of runs that stay funded to the end of your horizon plus the low, median and high outcomes. It illustrates how sensitive the plan is to market ups and downs and is not a prediction.
Can I use this as a FIRE or financial independence calculator?
Yes. The planner doubles as a financial-independence and FIRE calculator: set your assets, contributions and expenses, add a retirement event on the timeline, and read the projected net worth and whether the plan stays funded to the end of your horizon under your chosen assumptions.
How does the planner handle debt payoff over time?
Add a debt block with its balance, interest rate and yearly repayment, and the planner amortizes it year by year, shrinking the balance and showing the payments in your cashflow and the debt portion of the composition chart until it reaches zero.
How do I see my net worth in today’s money?
Switch on the today's-money toggle to see every figure in inflation-adjusted (real) terms, which shows the future purchasing power of your net worth rather than the larger nominal number, so a projection decades away is easier to relate to today's prices.

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