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50/30/20 Monthly Budget Calculator

A monthly budget against the common frameworks, computed on take-home pay. The 50/30/20 rule is stated on take-home and quoted on gross often enough to matter, and the two differ by roughly the tax you pay.

Also called: budget planner, 50 30 20 calculator.

Compare against
Left over
₹4,000

₹4,000 left of 85,000 after ₹81,000 of spending, a savings rate of 16.47%. Against 50/30/20 on take-home pay, needs should be 42500 and are 56000, over by 13500. The largest line is housing at 29.4% of take-home pay.

Total spending
₹81,000
Savings rate
16.47%
Needs as a share
65.88%
Wants as a share
17.65%
Needs at the framework target
₹42,500
Wants at the target
₹25,500
Savings at the target
₹17,000
Three months of essentials
₹1,44,000
Months to build it at this rate
10.3
Against the framework
Against 50/30/20 on take-home pay, needs should be 42500 and are 56000, over by 13500.
On the largest line
The largest line is housing at 29.4% of take-home pay.
Method and background

How this is calculated

Categories are grouped into needs, wants and savings, and compared against the framework you pick. The denominator is the part worth stating: fifty-thirty-twenty was written against take-home pay, so applying it to gross income sets every target too high by the tax rate. Debt repayment sits in needs here because the minimum is not optional, though anything paid above the minimum is arguably savings. The emergency fund target uses essentials rather than total spending, since that is what you would actually need to cover.

the frameworks are stated on take-home pay and routinely applied to gross, which shifts every target
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Take-home income

Worked examples

Each of these is asserted on every build. If a change to the engine ever moved one of these answers, the build would fail before the page could print it.

a typical month

Monthly take-home pay
₹85,000
Rent or mortgage
₹25,000
Utilities and bills
₹6,000
Food and groceries
₹12,000
Transport
₹5,000
Debt repayments
₹8,000
Everything discretionary
₹15,000
Savings and investments
₹10,000
Compare against
The 50/30/20 rule

Left over₹4,000

56,000 of needs against a 42,500 target on take-home pay

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no discretionary spending

Monthly take-home pay
₹85,000
Rent or mortgage
₹25,000
Utilities and bills
₹6,000
Food and groceries
₹12,000
Transport
₹5,000
Debt repayments
₹8,000
Everything discretionary
₹0
Savings and investments
₹10,000
Compare against
The 50/30/20 rule

Left over₹19,000

boundary

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Method and limits

What it assumes

  • Take-home pay after tax and statutory deductions.

What it deliberately does not model

  • The frameworks are heuristics fitted to a middle income; at low incomes needs alone can exceed the whole target.
  • Irregular annual costs like insurance need dividing by twelve to appear here.

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Frequently asked questions

Is 50/30/20 on gross or take-home?
Take-home. Applying it to gross sets every target too high by whatever you pay in tax, which for most people is enough to make the budget unreachable.
Where does debt repayment sit?
The minimum is a need, since it is not optional. Anything above the minimum is closer to savings, because it buys down future interest.