Evaluate affordability before implementation

Affordability plays an important role in ICHRA planning, particularly for employers that need to evaluate contribution strategies before offering coverage.


The Lirvion Affordability Calculator helps employers, brokers, and benefits teams model allowance scenarios using selected planning inputs. By adjusting key assumptions, users can explore how different contribution approaches may affect the outcome.

Affordability depends on multiple assumptions

Affordability depends on assumptions that rarely hold still — allowance amounts, income, age, plan pricing, and location all move independently.

ICHRA Affordability Calculator

See if an offer of coverage is affordable under IRS safe harbor rules.

Affordability % for 2026: 9.96%

What would you like to calculate?

We use this to find the lowest-cost Silver plan available to this employee.

years

Whole number, 18–64.

Employee compensation

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per month

Explore affordability from different angles

Affordability is influenced by several factors working together rather than by a single calculation. The calculator brings those planning inputs into one workspace so different scenarios can be compared.

  • Safe Harbor Inputs

    Review the assumptions used for the selected safe harbor methodology

  • Household Income Assumptions

    Incorporate available income assumptions when evaluating scenarios

  • Planning Context

    Understand the assumptions, methodology, and calculation details behind each scenario

  • Affordability Results

    See where affordability lands based on the assumptions included in the calculation

  • Employee Contributions

    Estimate how employee premium responsibility may change across different allowance scenarios

  • Allowance Modeling

    Compare different employer contribution amounts and see how they may influence the outcome

One employee is rarely the whole answer

Affordability decisions usually involve the whole group. Lirvion can help you evaluate the broader picture.