Real ROI Calculator

Your investment's headline return isn't what you actually gain — inflation quietly eats part of it. See your real return and what it means in real money.

Investment Parameters

The rate advertised or seen on your statement.

Annual loss of purchasing power.

Real Rate of Return

7.69%

This is your actual growth in purchasing power.

Formula:
((1 + Nominal) / (1 + Inflation)) - 1
See how this rate grows your money

See it in your money

Nominal value

$96,463

What your statement will show

Real value

$44,024

In today's purchasing power

Your money is genuinely growing — the return comfortably outpaces inflation.

Uses the Fisher equation: real ≈ (1 + nominal) / (1 + inflation) − 1. Taxes reduce real returns further.

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