Retirement tax questions

Thank you for the confirmation.

 

I thought all questions covered, but then last one popped up...

 

When I do backdoor Roth IRA (legal term Roth IRA conversion), I have to convert $6000 which I contributed in 2019 OR $6000 + any earnings happened on $6000 from Jan 2019 till the date when I convert to Roth IRA?

 

If I have to do $6000 + earnings, then how would we determine earnings?

 

I did talk to the firm holding my account and they said that I have to determine earnings by myself for conversion. If I were to do recharacterization  or excess removal, then they can calculate it for me, but NOT for Traditional IRA to Roth IRA conversion.

 

Thanks.

Thanks,

Bhavik