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Financial Advisor Fees for a $1 Million Portfolio 2026

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Updated July 7, 2026. Quick answer (2026): Financial advisor fees for a $1 million portfolio are about $10,000/year at 1.00% AUM, $7,500/year at 0.75% AUM, and $5,000/year at 0.50% AUM before fund, platform, overlay, trading, tax-prep, or implementation costs. Compare that dollar cost against flat annual, retainer, hourly, and project quotes for the same written scope.

At $1 million, where does the measured cost sit?The measured band against this page’s own rate arithmetic.At $1 million, where does the measuredcost sit?The measured band against this page’s own ratearithmetic.0.50% of your balance0.75% of your balance1.00% of your balanceWhat firms actually disclose (measured)$5,000$7,500$10,000$8,750 to $10,000$0$3,000$6,000$9,000$12,000The band runs from between the 0.75% and 1.00%lines to exactly its 1.00% line.The band is an identification interval, not amargin of error. Where a filing discloses afee range rather than one schedule, its lowand high ends are carried through separately;midpoints are never invented.The grey bars are this page’s own arithmeticon 0.50%, 0.75% and 1.00% of $1 million. Onlythe band is measured.These are disclosed prices, not paid prices.Many firms negotiate, and many disclose nocomputable price at all.Source: Clear Money Guide Research Team, 2026 Advisor FeeBenchmark v1.1, DOI 10.5281/zenodo.21762538, CC BY 4.0 —annual cost computed from the Form ADV Part 2A feedisclosures of 176 SEC-registered investment advisers andweighted to a screened frame of 9,234 advisers that serveindividual clients. Aggregate table re-read from the depositon August 17, 2026.
Annual advisory cost at $1 million: what this page’s own rate arithmetic computes, against what SEC-registered firms actually disclose. Axis maximum $12,000, shared across this source’s figures so the bands are comparable between pages. The benchmark is a provisional release: its own charter asks for 200 completed firms and this deposit has 176, so treat these as indicative.

Use this $1 million portfolio guide when you are comparing advisor proposals, rollover advice, retirement-income planning, taxable-account management, Roth conversion coordination, estate basics, charitable planning, and implementation help.

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$1 million portfolio advisor fee table

Quote type Example annual cost What to confirm
1.00% AUM $10,000/year Whether planning, implementation, tax coordination, and fund/platform costs are included or separate.
0.75% AUM $7,500/year Service tier, breakpoint schedule, meeting cadence, advisor team, and written deliverables.
Flat annual planning $5,000-$12,000/year Scope, investment management, tax planning, retirement-income map, and support between meetings.
Retainer or project $300-$1,000/month or $2,000-$7,500+ per project Cancellation terms, project cap, implementation rules, and what becomes hourly.

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Enter the annual rate you were actually quoted. This prices it against the by-slice breakpoint schedule published on this site — one example schedule, not a market benchmark — and shows the difference in annual dollars. Neither figure includes fund expense ratios or platform layers.

What to ask at $1 million

  1. What is my all-in annual cost in dollars?
  2. How does the fee change if the portfolio grows above $1 million?
  3. Would a flat annual fee include the same investment and planning scope?
  4. How will you coordinate taxes, retirement withdrawals, Social Security, Roth conversions, RMD timing, and estate basics?
  5. Are you a fiduciary for the entire relationship?

Related balances: $500k portfolio advisor fees, $2 million portfolio advisor fees, and $3 million portfolio advisor fees.

Methodology

  • We convert common advisor percentage quotes into annual dollars for a $1,000,000 portfolio.
  • We compare AUM against flat annual, retainer, hourly, project, and robo-supported pricing by first-year cost and written scope.
  • This page was materially reviewed on July 7, 2026. Fee examples are educational, not personalized financial, tax, legal, or investment advice.

Editorial standards: Editorial Policy

What firms actually disclose at this balance. In our own benchmark of published adviser fee schedules, the weighted median annual cost at $1,000,000 is $8,750 to $10,000, taken from the Form ADV Part 2A filings of 176 SEC-registered advisers. The full benchmark, with method.

More balances, same measured basis: $750k · $5 million · $10 million — the last two sit above our measured range and are labelled as upper bounds rather than going rates.

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