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Pacific Wealth Desk pillars

Pacific Wealth Desk organizes its coverage around the questions Dual-income households optimizing taxes and benefits, Tech and media workers with equity concentration, and Pre-retirees balancing housing wealth and retirement accounts actually bring — California retirement planning, Bay Area equity comp, and HSA California — pairing plain-language guides with calculators you can run yourself.

Compound trajectory lab

Project how regular contributions grow over time under different return, fee, and timeline assumptions.

Allocation drift check

Compare your current mix against a target allocation and see where drift has crept in.

Retirement runway model

Model your retirement runway from savings rate, timeline, and expected returns — then stress-test it.

Recovery requirements

See the gain required to recover from a loss, and how long recovery may take at different return rates.

Risk budgeting sketch

Weigh potential upside against downside so position-sizing decisions stay deliberate.

Options payoff explorer

Chart payoff profiles for basic options positions before committing real money.

Purchasing power & price paths

Estimate what rising prices do to purchasing power and future spending needs.

California retirement planning

Explained with stated assumptions, worked examples, and a calculator wherever the math matters.

Bay Area equity comp

Explained with stated assumptions, worked examples, and a calculator wherever the math matters.

HSA California

Explained with stated assumptions, worked examples, and a calculator wherever the math matters.

Mortgage vs invest CA

Explained with stated assumptions, worked examples, and a calculator wherever the math matters.

How much house can we afford after RSU vest?

Explained with stated assumptions, worked examples, and a calculator wherever the math matters.

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