Insurance & Planning
Emergency Fund Target
How big your cash reserve should be and how fast you can build it.
Your numbers
Target reserve
$25,200
Reserve balance
grows to $25.2K
- Still needed
- $18,200
- Coverage today
- 1.7 months
- Time to fully funded
- 37 months
Keep this money somewhere boring and reachable, like a savings or money market account. Half of Sidney runs on seasonal income, so we often push for the higher end of the range.
Emergency Fund Target explained simply
An emergency fund is a money cushion for surprises, a car repair, a busted furnace, a lost job. This tells you how big your cushion should be.
For example
If you spend $3,500 a month, a 6-month cushion means keeping about $21,000 in savings you can reach quickly.
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