Loans & Debt
Credit Card Payoff
How long a card balance takes to clear, and what all that waiting costs you in interest.
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Payoff time
42 months
- Years
- 3.4
- Total interest
- $3,847.53
- Total paid
- $12,347.53
This assumes you stop charging to the card and the rate never changes. Card issuers may apply payments to the lowest-rate balance first, which stretches things out further.
Credit Card Payoff explained simply
Clients bring this one to us all the time. Credit cards charge a lot of interest, so paying only a little each month can take forever. This shows how long it takes to get to zero and how much the wait costs you.
For example
Owe $6,000 at 22.9% and pay $200 a month: it takes about 4 years and costs roughly $3,600 in interest. Pay $300 instead and you finish in about half the time.
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