The Job Offer Decision Kit

Choose between job offers, or an offer and staying put, on what each pays for the hours it takes: the bonus at its real payout, the match you will actually receive, equity at a discount you choose, and five years of raises in today's dollars

JobWhip's Job Offer Comparison Calculator adds each offer's base, bonus, equity, retirement match, benefits and paid time off and ranks the total. It counts the bonus at its target, equity at face value and paid time off as dollars on top of a salary that already pays for those days, and it has no hours anywhere. The Salary to Hourly Calculator divides by 2,080 hours, as if every week were worked, no evening ran late and the office were next door. This kit sets each offer's pay against the hours it takes. It counts the cash you can bank on (the bonus at its payout history, the match you will actually receive, equity at a discount you choose, your premium and commute cost subtracted) and divides it by the hours you give the job, paid or not, plus the commute. In the worked example the calculator ranks Offer A first by $24,754; per hour given, Offer B pays $3.91 more. Then it runs five years of raises in today's dollars (a 2.5% raise at an example 3% inflation is a 0.49% real cut) and ends with the base at which the offer you prefer ties the other: $107,000 in the example, rounded up, with how it was worked out. Every figure is an example computed by code from the site's own calculators, for you to replace with yours. It is not tax, legal, investment or financial advice, it promises no salary, raise or answer from an employer, and it never suggests claiming an offer you do not have. Included: a 24-page printable kit with 7 steps, an offer sheet, an hours log, a questions sheet, a five-year sheet, two reference tables and a quickstart, plus a personalised sheet worked from the numbers you entered in the calculators.

Look inside

Two full pages from the kit, exactly as printed. Click either to read it at full size before you decide.

What is in it

• The Hours Given Rule: each offer's pay divided by the hours the job takes, paid or not, plus the commute, against the calculator's 2,080
• The Bankable Cash Rule: the bonus at its payout history, a signing bonus counted once with its repayment window, and the commute's cost
• The Both Ways Rule: the retirement match you will actually receive, vesting, and your share of the premium
• The Haircut Rule: equity at a discount you choose, and the face value at which it would change your answer
• The Count It Once Rule: paid time off counted as days not worked, and one verdict per hour given
• The Real Raise Rule: five years of staying against moving, in today's dollars, with the inflation figure dated
• The Honest Counter Rule: the base at which the offer you prefer ties the other, rounded up, and the questions to ask in writing
• Working pages: an offer sheet, a two-week hours log, a questions sheet and a five-year sheet
• Two reference tables: salary per hour given at 40 to 60 hours a week, and a raise in real terms at 2% to 5% inflation
• A quickstart, and a personalised sheet worked from your own calculator inputs

The kit picks up where the free Job Offer Comparison Calculator leaves off. The calculator adds a bonus at its target, equity at face value and paid time off as dollars on top of a salary that already pays for those days, and it has no hours anywhere; the Salary to Hourly Calculatordivides by 2,080 hours as if every week were worked and the office were next door. The kit counts the cash you can bank on (the bonus at its payout history, the match you will actually receive, equity at a discount you choose, your premium and commute cost subtracted) over the hours each job takes, paid or not, plus the commute; works five years of raises in today’s dollars with the Pay Raise Calculator; and ends with the base salary at which the offer you prefer pays as well as the other. Every figure in it is an example for you to replace. It is not tax, legal or financial advice: check tax with a tax professional, and get overtime classification and benefit terms from the employer in writing. No salary, raise or outcome is promised.