FIRE Planner

Put retirement spending, passive income, cash reserve, and compounding into one decision surface to see whether your target makes sense.

Savings Rate: 40%
Retirement Gap: ¥10,000/mo
Cash Buffer: 12 months
Inputs
Start with real cash flow, then define retirement spending and safety margins.

1. Current Position

This defines how far you are from the target today.

Use the net financial assets that can realistically support FIRE.

After-tax, durable income is more useful than peak months.

Use real lifestyle costs and avoid underestimating fixed spend.

Monthly Net Savings

¥8,000

Savings Rate

40%

2. Growth Assumptions

These control compounding speed and withdrawal safety.

Use an after-tax, after-inflation expectation, not a recent bull market number.

3.5% to 4.5% is a common range. Lower means more conservative.

Common Return Rates
Common Withdrawal Rates

3. Retirement Assumptions

These define what the FIRE target is made of.

Estimate the lifestyle cost you expect after leaving full-time work.

Examples: rent, pension, annuity, part-time work, or other stable cash flow.

Keeping 6 to 24 months of expenses in lower-volatility assets is a practical default.

Common Cash Buffers

Retirement Gap

¥10,000/mo

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Projection
The result should explain not only the target number, but what drives it.

Run the first projection

After you fill in the inputs, this panel will show time to goal, target composition, and the growth path.

Core Formulas
Why this model

Target Assets = Annual Retirement Gap / Withdrawal Rate + Post-FIRE Monthly Expense × Cash Buffer Months

This replaces the less intuitive investment-ratio model with a buffer measured directly in months.

End-of-Month Assets = Start-of-Month Assets × (1 + Monthly Return) + Monthly Net Savings

Savings are added at month end, which is slightly more conservative than assuming month-start contributions.

Annual Retirement Gap = max(Post-FIRE Monthly Expense - Other Monthly Income, 0) × 12

First measure how much spending still needs to be funded by the portfolio, then size the corpus.

Monthly Return = (1 + Annual Return)^(1/12) - 1

This uses an effective monthly rate instead of the simpler Annual / 12 shortcut.

This tool is designed for strategy and decision support, not as professional financial advice.