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From converting your salary to an hourly rate and estimating take-home pay to weighing a raise, tracking PTO, setting a freelance rate, and comparing job offers, JobWhip pairs free hands-on career calculators with practical guides and a richly illustrated museum. Land the job, grow your career.
Career & Salary Tools & Calculators
Free tools for every professional — salary to hourly calculator, take-home pay calculator, pay raise calculator, PTO accrual calculator, freelance hourly rate calculator, and job offer comparison calculator.
Salary to Hourly Calculator
Convert any pay figure between annual, monthly, weekly, daily, and hourly — set your hours per week and paid weeks per year and see every period in one table, both salary-to-hourly and hourly-to-salary
Take-Home Pay Calculator
Estimate your net paycheck from a gross salary with a combined effective tax rate plus pre-tax 401(k) and insurance deductions — take-home per year, month, and paycheck (a rough estimate, not tax advice)
Pay Raise Calculator
See what a raise is worth — from a raise percentage or a target salary, get your new pay, the dollar increase, and the difference per month and paycheck, plus a raise-to-beat-inflation mode
PTO Accrual Calculator
Track paid time off earned by hours worked, pay period, or annual grant, and project your balance against a cap — plus a converter from an annual PTO-days grant into a per-hour accrual rate
Freelance Hourly Rate Calculator
Work out the hourly rate a freelancer needs to charge from a target take-home, business expenses, billable hours, working weeks, and a tax-and-profit buffer — with a recommended hourly and day rate
Job Offer Comparison Calculator
Compare two or three offers side by side — base, bonus, equity, 401(k) match, benefits, and PTO — adjusted for cost of living to reveal which offer truly wins on total compensation
Museum of Work & the Workplace
Wander an immersive museum of the working world — the trades and factories of the Industrial Revolution alongside the tools of the working day, the strikes, holidays and landmark laws of the labor movement, and the cubicles, coworking floors and boardrooms of the modern workplace, each in its own gallery, so you can get to know the stories behind how we work: where each idea came from, what makes it matter, and the role it plays in shaping the world of work today.
Tour the museum →From the Journal
Worked guides on salary, raises, take-home pay, paid time off, freelance rates and job offers. Each one runs a real example through one of the calculators above and says what it leaves out.
What Happens When You Hit the PTO Cap?
At 150 hours with a 160-hour cap and 4.62 hours a paycheck, you hit the cap in the third paycheck and stop earning. How caps work, what the calculator does at the cap, and how to plan around one.
Is a Bonus Worth as Much as a Raise? One-Off Pay vs Permanent Pay
A 5% raise on $65,000 and a one-off $3,250 bonus pay the same in year one. Over three years, with 3% raises after, the raise is ahead by $6,795.43, and the gap keeps growing. How to compare them.
Day Rate or Hourly Rate? Pricing Freelance Work Both Ways
A $94.10 hourly rate is a $752.83 day rate on 8-hour days, $705.78 on 7.5 and $564.63 on 6. How to set a day rate from your hourly floor, and what long days do to it.
Why Freelancers Can't Bill 40 Hours a Week: Billable Hours and Your Rate
The same $60,000 target needs $51.24 an hour if you bill 40 hours a week and $81.99 if you bill 25. Pricing as if every hour is billable leaves a $35,359.71 hole. Here is the arithmetic.
Valuing Benefits in a Job Offer: 401(k) Match, Health Cover and PTO
An $80,000 offer with a richer health plan and 20 days off edges an $83,000 offer by $443.08 in total compensation, but only because of how paid time off is counted. How to put a dollar figure on each benefit.
Is a Higher Salary in an Expensive City Really More?
A $95,000 city job beats a $78,000 home-town job by $20,490.77 in total pay. At a cost-of-living index of 128 it is $4,300.34 behind. How to run the comparison, and where the index is too blunt.
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Practical know-how on resumes, interviews, and career growth, plain-language explainers on salary, take-home pay, and job offers, and seasoned tips for first-time job seekers and seasoned professionals alike — everything you need to land the job and grow your career.
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