Session tool 02 · Guided calculator

Your Freedom Score

How much you need outside super to make work optional before 60 — and how close you already are.

The score is out of 100. The figure behind it is your Work Optional Number: the capital that has to carry you from the day you stop to the day super unlocks. Five steps, about three minutes.

You answer5 steps

Where you are, where you want to be, what you invest, your super, and how long to model.

You get6 numbers

Your Work Optional Number, your projection, the gap, the required monthly, the age it becomes achievable, and how long the money lasts.

All inToday's $

Every figure is in today's money, so each one is comparable to a salary now.

Start from a situation, or your own numbers

Three worked situations, each loading a full set of figures you can then change. Useful for seeing the shape before entering anything of your own.

Your result

Out of 100. A hundred means the projection covers your Work Optional Number — the capital that carries you from the day you stop to the day super unlocks.

Your plan in four numbers

The whole plan, in one picture

Building, then drawing down, then the moment super takes over.

Accessible capital · today's dollars

    Two numbers that decide it

    Both fall straight out of what you entered.

    Work becomes optional at —

    Monthly to hit your chosen age —


    To reach your target you could

    Any one of these on its own, computed from your figures. Options, not recommendations.

    Super cannot fund the years before it unlocks. That stretch is the whole problem, and the only one this number solves.

    Today's dollars throughout · a general illustration, not a forecast

    After super unlocks

    What is left outside super, what super has become, and how long the two together last.

    The combined pool at super access

    Change anything

    Every figure above updates as you move these.

    Take these numbers to a conversation

    Important limitations. A simplified educational illustration, not a retirement forecast and not personal advice. Every figure is shown in today's dollars, projected at a real return — your assumed return less inflation. It deliberately excludes tax, capital gains tax, franking credits, contribution tax, fees, property, the Age Pension, market volatility and the order in which returns arrive, debt, and estate considerations. Real portfolios do not deliver the same return every year, and sequence matters as much as average. Superannuation preservation age is 60 for everyone reaching it from 1 July 2024; the access age here is an input and should match your own circumstances. Moneysmart's retirement guidance notes that what you need varies with the lifestyle you want, and that planning should consider when super can be accessed and how any income gap is funded — moneysmart.gov.au.