Free tools for career breaks & retirement

Can you afford
time away from work?

Check a career-break budget, compare retirement dates, or build a detailed plan. Start with the decision you’re making.

A worked example · not a forecast

Retire at 50 or 53?
The market path matters.

For this fictional 45-year-old, working three more years improves the model results. An early market fall still leaves many paths short of funding the full retirement.

See the inputs & full calculation
Tested paths funded through age 95
Retire atBase modelEarly fall
5066%28%
5379%47%

2,000 paths per scenario; rounded percentages. These are model results, not your probability of success. Assumptions are shown in the example.