How to use this. Fill in each offer on the cards in section 01, including your current job as the baseline. Equity is off by default, switch it on only if an offer grants it. The table, chart, and summary update live as you type. Defaults are realistic placeholders, not market benchmarks. Replace them with your real figures.
Enter each offer and your current job
Toggle Show off to drop a column. Forfeited equity is the unvested value you leave behind by quitting, so it counts only against the new offers. The 401k field assumes you contribute enough to capture the full match.
Every offer on one screen
Adjusted value is cash, equity, and benefits, normalized for cost of living, net of commute and any forfeited equity. Time off sits beside it as its own measure, in days and in effective pay per day worked.
Every dollar, shown
No black box. Read top to bottom to see where each offer gains and loses ground on the way to adjusted year one value.
Adjusted value, year one
Real dollars in each location, after cost of living, commute, benefits, and forfeited equity. Bars are colored by offer, not ranked.
Multi year view, equity vesting over the schedule
Base grows at the annual raise you set per offer, with any scheduled bump applied from its start year. Equity vests straight line and stops when its schedule completes, no assumed refresh. Signing bonus and forfeited equity hit year one only.
The differences that matter
Adjusting the numbers above.
How the math works
The choices behind the numbers, stated plainly so you can challenge or change them.
Time off is not turned into salary
Your base already pays you during time off, so counting each day as extra salary would double count. Instead the tool sums your paid days off and shows effective pay per working day, cash / (260 minus days off). More leave raises your real rate without inventing dollars.
Commute is from real miles
Cost per mile is gas price / your MPG, from your own car, not a federal rate. Daily cost is round trip miles x cost per mile plus parking and tolls. Annual cost multiplies that by office days, set by your office days per week and the leave you entered.
Benefits count both sides
Employer health contribution and the full 401k match add to value. Your health premium is a cost and subtracts. Perks add their annual value only when checked. A signing bonus lands once, in year one.
Equity vests over time
A grant is valued at the figure you enter, earned straight line, so year one credits total / vesting years. The tool does not model price growth, dilution, or refresh grants. The value is your estimate.
Cost of living normalizes recurring pay
Each offer carries a location index, default 100. Recurring location bound pay is scaled by 100 / index, so a higher cost city shrinks the real value of the same dollar. One time items and out of pocket costs are not index scaled.
This is structure, not advice
Figures are illustrative placeholders, not a salary benchmark for any role or market, and they move over time. The tool does not value securities or give tax or legal advice. You set every assumption, and no offer is ranked or recommended.