Increase your SIP by 10% each year in line with your pay, and the final corpus grows by lakhs. The maths is startling.
Your salary grows most years: increments, promotions, pay commission revisions. If your SIP stays frozen while income rises, your saving rate quietly falls every year. The step-up SIP fixes this with one setting: the instalment automatically increases by a chosen percentage annually.
The startling arithmetic
A 10,000 monthly SIP at 12% for ten years builds roughly 23.2 lakh. The identical plan with a 10% annual step-up builds roughly 33.7 lakh. Same fund, same market, same discipline; over ten lakh of extra corpus, purely because the instalment grew with your pay. Stretch the horizon to twenty years and the gap widens into a different financial life.
Setting it up
Most AMCs support a top-up facility at SIP registration, so the increase happens automatically each year with no fresh paperwork. Choose a step-up you can sustain: 10% matches typical increments; a conservative 5% still compounds meaningfully. Try your own numbers on our Step-up SIP Calculator, then let us register it properly so the growth is automatic.
Questions about your own plan?
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