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Pacific Wealth Desk calculators

California-specific calculators with localized copy decks, VHCOL defaults, and state-relevant context where legally safe. Household-grade calculators with California examples, disclaimers, and VHCOL defaults where legally safe — purpose-built for the California household planning experience.

Catalog

What you can run here

Household-grade calculators with California examples, disclaimers, and VHCOL defaults where legally safe — purpose-built for the California household planning experience.

Compound trajectory lab

Runs in-browser with disclosures. Catalog slug · compound-growth-calculator

Allocation drift check

Runs in-browser with disclosures. Catalog slug · portfolio-allocation-analyzer

Retirement runway model

Runs in-browser with disclosures. Catalog slug · retirement-projection-simulator

Recovery requirements

Runs in-browser with disclosures. Catalog slug · drawdown-recovery-calculator

Risk budgeting sketch

Runs in-browser with disclosures. Catalog slug · risk-reward-calculator

Options payoff explorer

Runs in-browser with disclosures. Catalog slug · options-profit-loss-calculator

Purchasing power & price paths

Runs in-browser with disclosures. Catalog slug · inflation-impact-calculator

California cost-of-living shock absorber planner

Planning-specific module (california-cost-of-living-shock-absorber-planner); detailed engines ship progressively on this roadmap.

Equity comp liquidity event checklist builder

Planning-specific module (equity-comp-liquidity-event-checklist-builder); detailed engines ship progressively on this roadmap.

Insurance gap scorecard (non-binding)

Planning-specific module (insurance-gap-scorecard-non-binding); detailed engines ship progressively on this roadmap.

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Compound trajectory lab

Household-grade calculators with California examples, disclaimers, and VHCOL defaults where legally safe — purpose-built for the California household planning experience.

Future value

$1,185,264

Projected ending balance under the current compounding path.

Your contributions

$460,000

Starting capital plus every monthly contribution.

Investment growth

$725,264

The share created by compounding instead of deposits.

Output path

The line updates immediately as you change the assumptions.

Year 0 to Year 20

Year 0Year 10Year 20

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Allocation drift check

Household-grade calculators with California examples, disclaimers, and VHCOL defaults where legally safe — purpose-built for the California household planning experience.

Enter current and target weights. The model normalizes them to 100% and flags any sleeve that sits outside your drift band.

equities

fixed Income

alternatives

cash

Largest sleeve

55%

Anything too dominant deserves extra governance.

Effective sleeves

2.6

A lower value means the portfolio behaves like fewer real bets.

Concentration score

0.39

Herfindahl-style concentration across the current weights.

equities

Current 55% vs target 60%

Hold

Drift: -5%. Keep this sleeve within +/-5% to stay inside the current policy.

fixed Income

Current 25% vs target 20%

Hold

Drift: 5%. Keep this sleeve within +/-5% to stay inside the current policy.

alternatives

Current 10% vs target 10%

Hold

Drift: 0%. Keep this sleeve within +/-5% to stay inside the current policy.

cash

Current 10% vs target 10%

Hold

Drift: 0%. Keep this sleeve within +/-5% to stay inside the current policy.

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Retirement runway model

Household-grade calculators with California examples, disclaimers, and VHCOL defaults where legally safe — purpose-built for the California household planning experience.

Nominal balance

$3M

Raw dollars at the retirement start date.

Today's dollars

$2M

Inflation-adjusted view of the same future balance.

4% rule estimate

$130K

A quick annual draw estimate before tax planning.

Output path

The line updates immediately as you change the assumptions.

42 to 65

425365

Sustainable real income

$112K

Approximate annual spending in today's dollars if the portfolio must last through retirement.

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Recovery requirements

Household-grade calculators with California examples, disclaimers, and VHCOL defaults where legally safe — purpose-built for the California household planning experience.

Value after drawdown

$800,000

Capital left to compound from the lower base.

Required gain

25%

Gain needed just to get back to breakeven.

Years to recover

2.9 years

At the assumed annual return with no new deposits.

Recovery map

5% drawdown5.3%
10% drawdown11.1%
20% drawdown25%
30% drawdown42.9%
40% drawdown66.7%
50% drawdown100%

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Risk budgeting sketch

Household-grade calculators with California examples, disclaimers, and VHCOL defaults where legally safe — purpose-built for the California household planning experience.

Risk / reward

2.25x

Reward dollars divided by risk dollars per share.

Position size

312

Maximum shares before you exceed the trade risk budget.

Capital required

$31,200

Approximate gross exposure at the chosen entry.

Trade framing

Per-share risk

$8

Per-share reward

$18

Risk budget

$2,500

This framework assumes a single trade with one stop and one target. If your stop is likely to slip in fast markets, size down before you size up.

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Options payoff explorer

Household-grade calculators with California examples, disclaimers, and VHCOL defaults where legally safe — purpose-built for the California household planning experience.

Breakeven

$105

Expiration price where the payoff crosses zero.

Max gain

Unlimited

Capped when the structure has a natural ceiling.

Max loss

$500

Always review this before any trade sizing discussion.

Output path

The line updates immediately as you change the assumptions.

$60 to $140

$60$100$140

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Purchasing power & price paths

Household-grade calculators with California examples, disclaimers, and VHCOL defaults where legally safe — purpose-built for the California household planning experience.

Purchasing power

$55,368

Illustrative real value of idle nominal dollars after inflation— assumes zero nominal investment return.

Nominal future tag

$180,611

Rough sticker price for the same basket when inflation compounds at the rate you entered.

Nominal cumulative lift

80.6%

Percent increase from today’s dollars to the nominal future tag.

Output path

The line updates immediately as you change the assumptions.

Y0 to Y20

Y0Y10Y20

Horizon

20 years

The chart traces purchasing power if nominal dollars earn 0% while prices rise at your inflation assumption—pair with compound-growth and retirement tools when modeling returns.

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