Updated September 4, 2026. Quick answer. The 2026 traditional/Roth IRA contribution limit is $7,500, up from $7,000 in 2025, with an age-50-and-older catch-up of $1,100, the first year that catch-up has ever increased, since SECURE 2.0 began indexing it in 2025. Combined, someone 50 or older can put in $8,600 for 2026. The 2027 figure is not announced, and it is worth being precise about why you won’t find a credible projection anywhere: Milliman’s own 2027 IRS limits forecast (the report CMG’s 401(k) page cites for that figure) explicitly does not cover the IRA limit. Neither Bloomberg Tax nor Thomson Reuters Checkpoint has published one either. Numbers circulating online for a “2027 IRA limit” trace back to calculator sites doing their own math, not a named forecaster’s work.
What’s actually settled, vs. still open
Settled for 2026: $7,500 standard limit, $1,100 catch-up (age 50+), per IRS Notice 2025-67, announced November 13, 2025.
Open: the 2027 figures for both the standard limit and the catch-up. The IRA limit is governed by 26 U.S.C. §219(b)(5), indexed in $500 increments, a coarser step than the $1,000 gift-exclusion rounding or the 401(k)’s finer adjustment, which is part of why it moves less often (it held flat at $7,000 for two straight years, 2024 into 2025, before this year’s jump). The IRS typically announces the following year’s IRA limit around November 1 alongside the 401(k)/403(b)/457 figures.
The numbers, year by year
| Year | Standard limit | Age-50+ catch-up |
|---|---|---|
| 2022 | $6,000 | $1,000 |
| 2023 | $6,500 | $1,000 |
| 2024 | $7,000 | $1,000 |
| 2025 | $7,000 | $1,000 |
| 2026 | $7,500 | $1,100 |
| 2027 | not yet announced | not yet announced |
$7,500 is what you may add. What you already hold is the bigger question.
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Why no forecaster has a 2027 number yet
Milliman reissues a 2027 IRS limits forecast monthly, and CMG's own 401(k) limit page cites its 401(k) deferral projection directly. That report is scoped to qualified-plan limits under 26 U.S.C. §415 (401(k)/403(b)/457 deferrals, the two catch-up tiers, the defined-contribution annual-addition cap, and the compensation cap) and does not include a §219 IRA line item, confirmed by reading the report directly. Bloomberg Tax's and Thomson Reuters Checkpoint's annual projection reports were searched specifically for an IRA figure and returned none. Until one of those named firms publishes a number, this page states none, rather than adopting an unattributed calculator site's math as if it were a forecast.
Sources
2026 figures: IRS Notice 2025-67, via IRS newsroom release “401(k) limit increases to $24,500 for 2026; IRA limit increases to $7,500,” read at irs.gov on 2026-09-04. Statute: 26 U.S.C. §219(b)(5). Forecaster-coverage check: Milliman, “2027 IRS Limits Forecast” (July edition), read at milliman.com on 2026-09-04, cross-checked against a second summary at getfinancepulse.com confirming the same gap.
This page is updated the day the official figure is announced, and any projection above will be struck through rather than deleted, so the record of what was projected vs. what actually happened stays visible. See the 2027 numbers hub for every figure this program tracks, projected vs. official. General information, not tax or legal advice.