Protection & Planning

Net Worth Calculator

Add up everything you own, subtract everything you owe, and see the one number that tells you where you actually stand — plus how it compares to the median Canadian family your age, and a private way to track it over time.

Your net worth

Enter what you own and what you owe to see where you stand.

Total assets
what you own
Total liabilities
what you owe
Debt-to-asset ratio
debt as a share of assets
Liquid net worth
financial assets − consumer debt

Assets composition

Where your wealth sits — a healthy mix spreads across more than one slice.

Liabilities composition

Where your debt sits — high-rate consumer debt deserves priority.

How you compare

Median net worth of Canadian families by age of the main earner.

Age of main earnerMedian net worthYou vs median

Source: Statistics Canada, Survey of Financial Security, 2023 (released October 2024; constant 2023 dollars). Medians, not targets — half of families sit below each figure.

Track it over time

Net worth is a trend, not a moment. Save a dated snapshot now and revisit each quarter to watch it move.

Snapshots are saved locally only — stored in this browser, never uploaded. Clearing your browser data removes them. Download a CSV below to keep a permanent copy.

How this is calculated

Net worth

The whole thing is one subtraction: net worth = total assets − total liabilities. Assets are what you own at today's market value; liabilities are the balances you still owe. It can be negative — a fresh graduate with student loans and no savings has negative net worth, and that's completely normal. The goal is a rising trend, not a particular number.

Net worth vs. income

Income is what flows in; net worth is what you keep. Two people earning the same salary can have wildly different net worth depending on how much they spend, save and owe. That's why net worth — not income — is the truest single measure of financial progress.

Liquid net worth

We define liquid net worth = financial assets − consumer debt, where financial assets are cash, TFSA, RRSP/pension and other investments, and consumer debt is credit cards, car loans, lines of credit, student loans and other debt. It deliberately excludes your home, your vehicles and your mortgage. Why? Because you can't spend a house — this is roughly what you could put your hands on in a crunch without selling where you live or how you get to work.

Debt-to-asset ratio

debt-to-asset = total liabilities ÷ total assets. Under ~35% is comfortable, over ~50% is meaningfully leveraged, and a homebuyer early in a mortgage can be well above that while still being on track. Watch it fall over the years as you pay down debt and assets grow.

The house-rich caveat

In pricey markets it's easy for home equity to become 80–90% of your net worth. On paper you're wealthy; in practice a job loss or a new roof can be a crisis if your liquid savings are thin. When home equity dominates and liquid net worth is small, the tool flags it — the fix is an emergency fund and diversified investments growing alongside the mortgage.

The benchmark

Medians come from Statistics Canada's Survey of Financial Security, 2023 (its most recent, released October 2024), by age of the main income earner: $159,100 under 35, $409,300 for 35–44, $675,800 for 45–54, $873,400 for 55–64, $738,900 for 65+, and $519,700 across all families. These are medians — half of families are below — so treat them as context, not a target. They also skew high because they include large amounts of home equity and pension value.

Tracking cadence

Update quarterly. That's frequent enough to catch a trend and rare enough to ignore day-to-day market noise. Snapshots are stored only in this browser (nothing is uploaded); export a CSV for a permanent record, and use the budget calculator and FIRE calculator to turn the trend into a plan.

What this doesn't model

It doesn't estimate your home's value, project future growth, adjust for inflation, or account for tax owing on registered accounts (an RRSP is worth less after the tax due on withdrawal). Enter your best current market values and revisit regularly. Rules and figures confirmed as of July 2026.

Educational tool, not financial advice. All math runs in your browser — nothing is sent, and saved snapshots stay only on this device.