What does "Use typical" do?
It fills an empty box with a typical figure for your market — only when you press it. The figure is marked as ours, not yours, so you can check it against what you actually pay.
Use typical puts a typical figure into an empty box, and nothing more. Nivritee never pre-fills a box with an estimate: the suggestion is shown beside the empty box, and taking it is something you do on purpose. In a spending breakdown and on a deposit’s rate, a figure you took is then marked as having come from our typical range, so it is never mistaken for one you gave.
Where you will see it
| Where | What it fills in |
|---|---|
| A line in a spending breakdown | The midpoint of the typical range for that line — Use typical — followed by the amount. |
| The same line, for after you move | Use typical there — a figure for the place you will settle, once you have told us what kind of place it is. |
| A deposit’s Rate | Use typical, with the range for that country and type of deposit. |
| The running costs of a home you will live in | The middle of the typical range for a home of its value. |
Where the figures come from
- Most spending ranges are derived rather than surveyed: property costs as a share of your own home’s value, discretionary lines as a share of what you already spend, and everyday lines from a baseline for your country and the size of city you live in. Open Where this range comes from under a line to read its basis — it says so when a range is a reasoned starting point rather than a survey figure.
- Deposit ranges are derived from the market’s own inflation or fixed-income assumption, and say they are not your bank’s rate.
- Where Nivritee has no sensible figure, there is no button, and the line says to put in whatever you actually pay.
When to use it
Use it to fill a line you genuinely cannot look up, so the plan is not missing a cost. Replace it with your own figure when you can. A typical figure is somebody else’s life; your statement is yours.
In a breakdown or on a deposit, a taken figure says so afterwards: This came from our typical range, not from you. In a breakdown, typing over the box makes it yours and the note disappears; on a deposit, typing your own rate does the same.
See this in your own plan.
Open Living expensesLast reviewed 1 October 2026.