Total Compensation Calculator
Compare salary, bonus, annualized signing pay, employer benefits, employee costs and risk-adjusted equity on annual and effective-hourly bases.
What Is the Total Compensation Calculator?
The Total Compensation Calculator builds a more complete job-offer value than salary alone. It combines base pay, expected bonus, employer retirement contributions, health benefits, stipends and paid time off with a probability-adjusted annualized value for equity. It also subtracts employee-paid benefit costs and converts the package to an effective hourly value using actual work expectations.
How It Works
Use the information icons beside each field for definitions. Enter salary, expected cash pay, signing bonus, employer benefits, equity and vesting, then subtract employee premiums and role-specific work or commute costs. Use conservative probability and liquidity assumptions for private-company equity, and compare offers with the same assumptions.
When to Use It
Use it to compare employment offers, evaluate a promotion, understand the cost of lost benefits when becoming self-employed, or negotiate the parts of a package that matter beyond base salary.
Frequently Asked Questions
- How should I value private-company equity?
- Use a conservative probability-adjusted value, account for vesting and dilution, and remember that a paper valuation is not cash. The calculator intentionally separates contingent equity from guaranteed compensation.
- Does total compensation equal take-home pay?
- No. Total compensation measures employer-provided economic value before personal income taxes. Use the Take-Home Pay Calculator for an after-tax cash estimate.
- Why include weekly hours?
- Two packages with the same annual value can have very different effective hourly compensation and quality-of-life tradeoffs when expected schedules differ.
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