KiwiSaver Savings Suspension Impact Calculator NZ

This calculator shows what pausing your KiwiSaver with a savings suspension really costs in New Zealand, both the contributions you skip while paused and what that money would have grown to by retirement. A savings suspension lets you stop contributing for a set period once you have been a member for at least twelve months, which can be a useful release valve when money is tight, because your contribution stops coming out of your pay. But it is not free: while you are paused, your employer stops contributing too, so you miss both your own money and your employer's match, and you also lose all the investment growth those amounts would have earned over the years until you retire. That lost growth is the part people overlook, and over a long horizon it dwarfs the contributions themselves. You enter your salary, your contribution rate, your employer's rate, the number of months you would pause, the years until retirement and the return you expect, and the calculator works out the contributions missed and their value at retirement. Use it to see the true cost before pausing, and to compare a short pause against a longer one. A suspension can still be the right call under genuine pressure, but going in with eyes open matters. Returns vary; this is a projection, not advice.

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Counts your and your employer's contributions for the pause, grown to retirement at your return. Returns vary and are not guaranteed. Projection only, not advice.