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Job Offer Comparison Calculator

Which offer is worth more once you count what actually reaches your bank account? This weighs salary, bonus, 401(k) match and vesting, HSA money, stock, health costs and the commute, after 2026 taxes, over the years you expect to stay. Runs in your browser; we don't store what you enter.

The two offers

These give you a full answer. The rest uses typical assumptions; open the sections below to fine-tune. W-2 jobs only.

401(k) and retirement
Health and HSA
Stock and sign-on bonus
Commute and your time
Pay growth, time off and names
Your stay and the math

What each offer leaves you, year by year

Stacked bars for each year you stay, one for each offer: take-home pay, retirement money that has vested, employer HSA money, stock after tax and the value of time off, with health and commute costs below zero. A line marks the running difference between the offers. The full figures are in the year-by-year table below.

What could change the answer

Total value of each offer and the difference under each scenario
Scenario Offer A Offer B Difference Ahead

Totals over your stay, in today's dollars. Each row changes one thing.

What this leaves out

  • State tax is one flat rate per offer. Credits, reciprocity between states and "convenience of the employer" rules for remote work aren't modeled; the work-state field is a note only.
  • Stock is taxed as pay when it vests (RSUs). Options, ISOs and the AMT are not modeled, and private-company shares are counted as if you could sell them.
  • The quality of the benefits: the health plan's network, the 401(k)'s fund fees, the insurance you get.
  • Career value: what you'd learn, the next job it leads to, how secure it is. Only you can weigh that.

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