How to use this calculator
Your Net Worth is the ultimate metric of your financial health. It is simply the difference between what you own (Assets) and what you owe (Liabilities).
- Log Your Assets: Add everything you own of significant value. This includes cash in checking accounts, investment portfolios, retirement accounts, and the market value of your home or vehicles.
- Log Your Liabilities: Add all outstanding debts. This includes credit card balances, personal loans, auto loans, and your remaining mortgage balance.
- Analyze the Architecture: The calculator will instantly resolve your Net Worth. If it's negative, you are structurally unsound and must focus on debt. If it's positive, you are building a legacy.
Factors that affect your results
Do not be discouraged by a negative net worth, especially if you are young. Student loans and mortgages frequently push young professionals into the red. The goal is the trajectory, not the starting line.
Understanding Your Leverage
Appreciating Assets
Things that historically grow in value over time or generate income. This includes stocks, bonds, high-yield savings, and real estate. This is the structural steel of your financial tower.
Depreciating Assets
Things that lose value the second you buy them. The primary culprit is your car. While necessary for transportation, tying up massive amounts of capital in luxury vehicles destroys net worth velocity.
What to consider next
To increase your net worth over time, you must mathematically widen the gap between your income and expenses, and deploy the difference:
- Crush High-Interest Debt: A 25% APR credit card balance steals your wealth faster than the stock market can grow it. You must eliminate this structural flaw first.
- Invest Consistently: Automate your investments into low-cost index funds. Time in the market fuels compound interest.