One score across six areas — emergency fund, debt, savings rate, investing, credit and cash flow.
Financial health score
55/100
Fair — six areas weighted.
2.6 months covered
11%
13%
18%
$420/mo
This blends six areas: emergency fund (9/20), debt-to-income (14/20), savings rate (13/20), investments for your age (5/20), credit utilization (6/10) and monthly cash flow (8/10). Your weakest area is investments vs age, which is where an hour of effort buys the most improvement.
You currently save $700, which is 13% of take-home pay. The standard target is 20% including retirement contributions and above-minimum debt payments. If $1,060 isn't reachable now, raise your rate one percentage point with every pay increase — that gets you there without ever lowering your current standard of living.
You have $62,000. These multiples assume an uninterrupted career from the early twenties, which describes a minority of real careers — so treat it as orientation, not a verdict. What matters more is the trend: at $700/month for 20 years at 7%, you would add roughly $364,649.
Check your retirement planA single score means little; the direction means everything. Fix investments vs age first, then re-run this in three months. Improving one area usually lifts others — clearing card balances raises utilization, cash flow and debt-to-income at the same time.
Ask the AI coachWorked scenarios with the full analysis, so you can see how the numbers move before entering your own.
Reasonable income and investing, but a thin emergency fund and elevated card balances.
Financial health score
55/100
This blends six areas: emergency fund (9/20), debt-to-income (14/20), savings rate (13/20), investments for your age (5/20), credit utilization (6/10) and monthly cash flow (8/10). Your weakest area is investments vs age, which is where an hour of effort buys the most improvement.
You currently save $700, which is 13% of take-home pay. The standard target is 20% including retirement contributions and above-minimum debt payments. If $1,060 isn't reachable now, raise your rate one percentage point with every pay increase — that gets you there without ever lowering your current standard of living.
You have $62,000. These multiples assume an uninterrupted career from the early twenties, which describes a minority of real careers — so treat it as orientation, not a verdict. What matters more is the trend: at $700/month for 20 years at 7%, you would add roughly $364,649.
Check your retirement planSix months of expenses banked, low debt, saving above 20% — what a high score looks like.
Financial health score
87/100
This blends six areas: emergency fund (20/20), debt-to-income (18/20), savings rate (20/20), investments for your age (10/20), credit utilization (10/10) and monthly cash flow (10/10). Your weakest area is investments vs age, which is where an hour of effort buys the most improvement.
You have $310,000. These multiples assume an uninterrupted career from the early twenties, which describes a minority of real careers — so treat it as orientation, not a verdict. What matters more is the trend: at $1,900/month for 20 years at 7%, you would add roughly $989,761.
Check your retirement planA single score means little; the direction means everything. Fix investments vs age first, then re-run this in three months. Improving one area usually lifts others — clearing card balances raises utilization, cash flow and debt-to-income at the same time.
Ask the AI coachLittle saved, high utilization and negative cash flow — the profile the action plan is designed for.
Financial health score
17/100
This blends six areas: emergency fund (1/20), debt-to-income (11/20), savings rate (2/20), investments for your age (4/20), credit utilization (0/10) and monthly cash flow (0/10). Your weakest area is credit utilization, which is where an hour of effort buys the most improvement.
You currently save $50, which is 2% of take-home pay. The standard target is 20% including retirement contributions and above-minimum debt payments. If $620 isn't reachable now, raise your rate one percentage point with every pay increase — that gets you there without ever lowering your current standard of living.
Your utilization is 77%. Paying $3,300 would cross below 30%, and utilization recalculates every time your issuer reports — so this improves both this score and your FICO score within about one billing cycle. Nothing else in personal finance moves that fast.
Credit utilization calculatorMost people judge their finances by one number — usually income or account balance — and both mislead. A high income with no savings and heavy debt is a fragile position; a modest income with six months banked and no card balances is a resilient one.
This score weights six things that together describe resilience rather than wealth: whether a surprise expense would derail you, whether debt is consuming your income, whether you are converting income into assets, whether those assets are appropriate for your age, whether your credit is healthy, and whether more money comes in each month than goes out.
Financial health is closer to a chain than a portfolio. The weakest link determines what happens when something goes wrong, which is why this tool directs you to your lowest-scoring area rather than your largest opportunity in dollar terms.
Someone with $200,000 invested and no emergency fund is genuinely more fragile than someone with $30,000 invested and six months of expenses banked, because the first person liquidates investments at a bad moment — often with tax consequences — the first time a job ends or a car dies. Fixing the weakest link almost always produces a bigger real-world improvement than optimizing an already-strong area.
Home equity is excluded from invested assets. It cannot fund spending without selling or borrowing, and counting it makes people feel wealthier than their cash flow supports.
Income level is not scored directly, only how you use it. A $200,000 earner saving 3% scores worse than a $60,000 earner saving 25%, which is the correct signal — savings rate, not income, is what determines long-run outcomes for the large majority of households.
It cannot fund spending without selling or borrowing. Excluding it gives a truer picture of what you could actually draw on.
Income is a raw input. Savings rate, debt load and buffer are what determine whether a setback is an inconvenience or a crisis.
Adding to already-healthy investments while carrying 24% card debt and no buffer is a net loss.
Essential expenses during unemployment are usually 25–35% lower, making the target more achievable than people assume.
The score is a thermometer, not the treatment. Automating a savings transfer moves it more than any amount of re-measuring.
Above 70 is strong, and above 85 is excellent. Between 55 and 70 usually means one or two specific weak areas rather than broad problems — most commonly a thin emergency fund or elevated credit utilization. Below 40 signals that a setback would be genuinely destabilizing, and the emergency fund is almost always the right first move.
A credit score measures one thing: how reliably you repay borrowed money. It says nothing about whether you have savings, whether you are investing, or whether you could survive a job loss. Someone with an 800 credit score and no emergency fund is one broken transmission from carrying a balance. This score measures resilience across your whole financial life.
Quarterly. Monthly checking mostly captures noise — market movement and normal spending variation — and encourages reacting to it. Quarterly shows the trend, which is the thing that actually matters.
No. The calculation runs entirely in your browser. Nothing you enter is transmitted to us or stored anywhere, and checking it has no effect on your credit whatsoever.
Because income is not scored directly — how you use it is. High earners frequently score poorly on savings rate, emergency fund and utilization simultaneously, since lifestyle costs expand to absorb income. That gap is precisely what the score is designed to surface.
Your lowest-scoring one, which the analysis names directly. As a general rule the order is: build a small emergency buffer, capture any employer retirement match, clear high-interest debt, complete the full emergency fund, then invest beyond the match.
The next calculations that usually follow this one.
Sized on essential expenses and your actual risk profile — not a generic three-to-six months.
One number that tells you whether the whole plan is working — plus what is actually spendable.
The single number lenders check first — and the one that decides your mortgage approval.
Built on take-home pay, with the annual costs that break most monthly budgets.
Utilization is 30% of your FICO score and has no memory. It can improve in one billing cycle.
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