Step-Up SIP Calculator

Estimate compounding returns when you increase your monthly SIP contribution annually. See how a small step-up significantly boosts your final corpus.

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Total Invested (Step-up)

19,06,349

Step-Up Future Value

43,41,925

Regular SIP Value

25,22,880

Regular SIP vs. Step-Up SIP Growth Curves

Frequently Asked Questions

What is a Step-Up SIP?

A Step-Up SIP is an investment strategy where you automatically increase your monthly contribution by a fixed percentage (e.g., 5% or 10%) or a flat amount at the end of every 12 months. This is an efficient way to sync your saving rate with annual salary increments.

How does a Step-Up SIP boost my compounding?

By increasing your contribution amount annually, you expand the principal capital being compounded. Over long periods like 15 or 20 years, a modest 10% annual step-up can result in a final wealth corpus that is nearly double the size of a standard flat SIP.

Why Increasing Your SIP by 10% Every Year Is a Wealth Superpower

Most Indians invest the same SIP amount for years — sometimes decades — without ever increasing it. Meanwhile, their salary grows, their expenses inflate, and their investment amount stays frozen in time. A Step-Up SIP solves this almost automatically.

A Step-Up SIP simply increases your monthly contribution by a fixed percentage (typically 5–15%) each year. This mirrors natural salary growth and ensures your investing keeps pace with your life. The wealth difference over 20–25 years is staggering.

Example: A ₹10,000 flat monthly SIP at 12% for 25 years grows to ₹1.89 crore. The same ₹10,000 start with 10% annual step-up grows to ₹3.64 crore — almost double the wealth, from simply increasing your SIP by ₹1,000 in the second year, ₹1,100 in the third, and so on.

The reason this works so powerfully is that later years of investing contribute the highest-value SIP amounts — and because early-year amounts have compounded significantly, the combination creates an accelerating wealth curve. If your employer gives you a 10% raise, routing even 5% of that increase to a step-up SIP is one of the highest-return financial decisions you can make each year.

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