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When can you
actually retire?

Early retirement isn't about earning more. It's about the gap between what you earn and what you spend, and letting compoundingCompounding: when your investment returns start earning returns of their own. Over decades it becomes the largest part of your wealth. do the rest. This is FIREFIRE: Financial Independence, Retire Early. You're financially independent once your investments can cover your living costs indefinitely., made visual. Free, no sign-up.

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Your number
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FIRE modes
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Levers
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Will it last?
Your numbers

Start with your situation

Currency

Everything below updates from these numbers and is shown in today's money (real, inflation-adjusted). Change anything, anytime.

01Your number

How much is "enough" to never work again?

Financial independence has a price tag: the pot that can fund your spending forever. The classic shortcut is the 4% ruleThe 4% rule: research (the Trinity Study) suggested you can withdraw about 4% of your portfolio in year one, then adjust for inflation, and very rarely run out over 30 years. 4% = save 25× your annual spending.: save 25× your yearly spending and you can draw it down indefinitely. Pick a more cautious withdrawal rateSafe withdrawal rate (SWR): the % of your pot you take each year. Lower is safer but needs a bigger pot: 4% → 25×, 3.33% → 30×, 3% → 33×. and the multiple climbs.

Your FIRE number
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25× your yearly retirement spending
Progress to your number0%
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Multiple
25×
Years of expenses you hold now
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Monthly income it funds
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02Flavours of FIRE

There's more than one finish line.

"Retire early" means different things. Some cut spending to the bone to get out fast; some keep a little income flowing; some just want to stop adding to the pot and let it ripen. Pick a path and see how the target (and the timeline) shift.

Lean FIRE

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Target number
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Time to reach it
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Annual spending
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Age
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03Levers & trade-offs

Small changes, surprisingly big swings.

Two levers move your date more than anything else: saving more, and needing less. Drag them and watch the years react in real time, then see what a single purchase really costs you.

What-if levers
Projected time to FIRE
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The "one more year" trap, in reverse

Each extra year you keep saving doesn't just add one year of deposits: it adds a year of growth on everything, and trims the years still ahead.

Extra working years
Balance you'd reach
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Safe yearly spending it funds
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Time-cost translator

Spending isn't priced in money. It's priced in time. See what a purchase adds to your working life.

Adds to your time-to-FIRE
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04Will it actually last?

A 4% rule is an average. You only retire once.

The danger isn't average returns. It's bad returns earlySequence-of-returns risk: a crash in your first retirement years, while you're withdrawing, can permanently sink a portfolio even if the long-run average is fine. The same average in a different order can be perfectly safe.. We run your retirement through hundreds of possible market paths and count how many survive to age 95.

Engine

If your pot falls below 85% of its start, you trim spending by this much until it recovers.

Starts from your FIRE number & retirement age, draws your spending each year to age 95.

Simulation assumptions
Runs
500 retirements
Start balance
Your FIRE number
Retirement age
Calculated from your plan
Time horizon
To age 95
Spending
Your yearly retirement expenses
Return model
Monte Carlo: stocks 7% real / 18% vol, bonds 2% real / 6% vol
Allocation
80% stocks / 20% bonds
Flex rule
Cut spending 10% below 85% of start
10th–90th percentile Median path Ran out
Success rate
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survived to 95
Median ending pot
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Worst 10%
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Best 10%
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Press run to simulate. Returns are illustrative (stocks ≈ 7% real / 18% vol, bonds ≈ 2% / 6%); the historical engine samples representative real-return sequences. Teaching tool only.

→From FIRE number to FIRE habit

You have the number. Now track the path.

Himma connects your accounts, investments, cards, and goals, so you can track your savings rate, watch your FIRE date move closer, and stay on course every month.

See how Himma helps
?Common questions
FIRE is a movement built on a simple idea: save and invest a large share of your income so that, far earlier than the traditional retirement age, your investments can cover your living costs indefinitely. At that point (your "FIRE number") paid work becomes optional. The two engines are your savings rate and compound growth.
A common rule of thumb is 25× your annual spending, derived from the 4% safe withdrawal rate. If you spend 120,000 a year, that's roughly 3,000,000 invested. Want a bigger safety margin? Aim for a 3–3.5% withdrawal rate, which means 28–33× your spending. Use the calculator above to see your exact number in your own currency.
The 4% rule comes from research (the Trinity Study) suggesting a retiree could withdraw 4% of their portfolio in the first year, adjust that amount for inflation each year after, and very rarely run out of money over a 30-year retirement. For longer, early retirements many people use a more conservative 3–3.5% withdrawal rate to better survive bad market sequences.
The maths of FIRE is universal, but the UAE has a structural advantage: there's no personal income tax, so a given gross salary converts into a higher real savings rate than in most taxed countries, which pulls your retirement date closer. The trade-offs to plan for are the absence of a state pension and the cost of living, both of which feed straight into your savings rate and your FIRE number.
Lean FIRE means retiring on a deliberately frugal budget, so you need a smaller pot and get out sooner. Fat FIRE targets a comfortable, higher-spending lifestyle and a larger number. Coast FIRE is the point where your invested pot is already big enough to grow into a full retirement by age 65 without any further saving, so you can "coast" and stop contributing. Barista FIRE keeps a little part-time income flowing, which lowers the portfolio you need.
No rule is guaranteed. The biggest risk is sequence-of-returns risk: a market crash in your first few retirement years, while you're withdrawing, can do permanent damage even if long-run average returns are fine. That's why the simulation above runs hundreds of market paths rather than a single average, and why flexibility (trimming spending in downturns) meaningfully raises your odds.
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