Social Security calculator

Date of birth

Enter your date of birth as month, day, and year, separated by slashes. (Example: If you were born on May 7, 1950, enter 5/7/1950.)

Age at retirement

Note: This calculator will accept a stop-work age up to 85. If the age you enter is less than 62, we estimate your benefit at age 62. If the age you enter is at least 62, we use that age when we estimate your benefit.

years and months.

Today's dollars or future dollars

Your estimated benefit is shown in today's dollars, unless you choose to have it shown in future (inflated) dollars. If you choose future (inflated) dollars, the calculator bases the results on our estimates of how inflation could affect your benefit amount

Annual earnings

Notice that years in the chart are shown horizontally rather than vertically. You can tab from year to year and the zeroes will be overlaid.

Enter your annual earnings from 1951 to 2011.

Note: We normally don't use earnings before 1951 to calculate benefits. Also, if you were born after 1951, any earnings you enter before your year of birth will be ignored.

1951
earnings: 1952: 1953: 1954:

1955: 1956: 1957: 1958:

1959: 1960: 1961: 1962:

1963: 1964: 1965: 1966:

1967: 1968: 1969: 1970:

1971: 1972: 1973: 1974:

1975: 1976: 1977: 1978:

1979: 1980: 1981: 1982:

1983: 1984: 1985: 1986:

1987: 1988: 1989: 1990:

1991: 1992: 1993: 1994:

1995: 1996: 1997: 1998:

1999: 2000: 2001: 2002:

2003: 2004: 2005: 2006:

2007: 2008: 2009: 2010:

2011:

Earnings in 2012

Earnings in 2013 and later

The calculator will use this same amount of earnings for each future year up to the year you expect to stop working.

Calculate

Press this button when you have entered all your information. Your estimated monthly benefits will be presented below.

Benefit eligibility

You must have sufficient earnings over a number of years to be insured for benefits. The requirements vary for retirement, disability, and survivor benefits. With the information you provided, these are the benefits you are eligible for:
Retirement insured status:
Disability insured status:
Survivor insured status:

Benefit estimates

Here are your benefit estimates.
Your monthly retirement benefit:
Your monthly disability benefit:
Your monthly survivor benefits:
Your surviving child:
Your surviving spouse caring for your child:
Your surviving spouse at full retirement age:
Maximum of total family benefits: