Minimum Payment Calculator

Credit Card Minimum Payment Interest Calculator

By calculating credit card interest using my minimum payment calculator, you'll see how much interest you will end up paying if you make only the minimum required payment on your credit card bill -- that is, assuming you stop charging any more to it. After seeing the shocking figures this calculator will generate, I doubt you'll want to continue allowing the credit card companies to get rich off your interest payments. And, as you will see from the calculated results, it's not just the interest charges you're losing, you're also losing the interest you could be earning on those charges if you were investing them rather than paying them to the credit card company! Instructions: Somewhere in your credit card disclosure statement the card company will tell you something like "your minimum payment will be 3% of the balance or $10, whichever is higher." These are the figures you will enter in Row #3 and Row #4.
Enter the dollar amount charged:
Enter the annual interest rate:
(3) Enter the minimum percent payment amount:
(4) Enter the minimum dollar payment amount:

Total interest charges you will pay:
Total number of payments you will make:
Total number of years until debt is paid off:
Estimated interest earnings lost:
Total Estimated Opportunity Cost:
Summary:

Save Your Money

Before charging that new big-screen HDTV, or whatever it is you're wanting, to your credit card, enter the cost (or dollar amount charged) into the payment calculator and see what the actual cost will be if you can only afford to make the minimum payments. If that's the case, you would be wise to wait several weeks until you can make a sizable down payment. Otherwise, you could end up paying for your purchase again in interest costs.

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