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For professionals with a pension worth planning

Your salary built the career. Now make it build the retirement.

Retirement, two-pot and SARS tax calculators for salaried South Africans. Enter your payslip and fund values once — get one honest verdict and the one move that changes it.

Free to useNo sign-up to see your resultMade in SA, in Rand
Example verdict
71/100
On track if you add R3,800/month to your RA — and SARS gives back ~R1,500 of it.

Good salary. Not necessarily a good retirement.

The numbers that made us build this, for people who earn well and still don’t know if it’s enough.

6%

of South Africans are on track to retire comfortably — replacing about 75% of their final salary.

10X Retirement Reality Report · 10x.co.za
R43.4bn

taken out of two-pot savings pots in five months — and R12.9bn of it went to SARS as tax.

SARS, 31 Jan 2025 · sars.gov.za
1.66m

taxpayers earn over R500,000 and carry roughly three-quarters of personal income tax. Your RA deduction is your biggest lever.

SARS Tax Statistics 2024 · dailyinvestor.com

Built for the people who keep this city running

Illustrative people, real situations. If you have a payslip, a fund statement and a bond, this was made for you.

Thandi, 41

Corporate attorney · Sandton

Maxes her RA every February. Wants to know if “maxing” is actually enough.

Pieter, 46

Civil engineer · Centurion

Changed employers twice. Two preserved funds, one RA — and no idea of the total.

Priya, 38

Actuarial manager · Rosebank

Two kids heading to private high school. Fees or retirement? She wants the trade-off in Rand.

Sipho, 52

Deputy director · Pretoria

GEPF member, 24 years’ service. Tempted by two-pot. Wants the real cost first.

Seven tools. One set of household numbers.

Each one ends on a single verdict and the next step that moves it.

Retirement

Am I on track — across every fund, RA and preserved pot I hold?

71/100example score, with the fix
Check my track →

Two-pot

What a savings-pot withdrawal really costs: tax now, growth lost later.

R30k → R18.9kexample: what lands at a 37% marginal rate
Cost my withdrawal →

Tax

SARS income tax and PAYE checked against your payslip — plus what an RA top-up gives back.

27.5%of income deductible into retirement, up to R350k
Check my PAYE →

Ten minutes, one profile

No adviser appointment. No product to buy at the end.

Open any tool

Start as a guest. You never need to sign up to see your result.

Enter your numbers once

Salary, fund values, bond and school fees go into one household profile every tool reads.

Read the verdict

One score, the numbers behind it, and the single move that changes it most.

Know your number before your next increase.

Free, private, and built for South African payslips, funds and tax tables.

Am I on track to retire? →