Job offer comparison · eight numbers each

What each offer paysfor an hour of your year.

Base, bonus, match, benefits, commute and hours. One number to put them on the same footing — and the base salary one side would need to match the other.

Offer A

— effective hourly

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Per hour of work and commute

Offer B

— effective hourly

01 / First offer

Offer A

Effective hourly —

Add all eight numbers for Offer A.

Base salary ($)

Annual bonus ($)

401(k) match (%)

Benefits you pay a year ($)

Commute, one way (minutes)

Days in office a week

Hours a day

Weeks worked a year

Total compensation—

Hours a year—

02 / Second offer

Offer B

Effective hourly —

Add all eight numbers for Offer B.

Base salary ($)

Annual bonus ($)

401(k) match (%)

Benefits you pay a year ($)

Commute, one way (minutes)

Days in office a week

Hours a day

Weeks worked a year

Total compensation—

Hours a year—

02 / The numbers

The comparison

Each bar is scaled to the larger of the two values in its row. The figures are the ones you typed, run through one formula.

Effective hourly

A —

B —

Total compensation

A —

B —

Hours a year

A —

B —

The difference

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03 / The reverse

The break-even

The base salary one offer would need to produce the other offer's effective hourly, with everything else held as typed.

Offer B break-even

—

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Offer A break-even

—

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How the numbers are made: total compensation = base + bonus + (match % × base) − benefits you pay. Hours a year = weeks × days × (hours a day + commute both ways). Effective hourly = total compensation ÷ hours a year. Break-even holds the target offer's hours, bonus, match and benefits where you entered them.