Job Offer Comparison
Compare multiple job offers across base salary, bonuses, equity, cost-of-living purchasing power, PTO, and work-life balance.
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Multi-Factor Employment Offer Evaluation System
The Job Offer Comparison tool provides a financial and quality-of-life decision model to evaluate competing job offers. Comparing job offers based solely on base salary often misleads candidates by ignoring variable bonuses, equity vesting schedules, 401k matches, health benefits, PTO allocations, and cost-of-living differences between cities.
A $160,000 salary in a high cost-of-living city yields lower real purchasing power than a $140,000 salary in a benchmark city with full remote flexibility. By applying customized decision weights across Compensation, Work-Life Balance, and Culture, candidates can identify the offer that best aligns with their long-term financial and personal priorities.
All calculations run locally inside browser session memory. Your salary numbers, offer details, and financial targets remain private without server logging, network uploads, or remote database tracking.
Core Tool Capabilities
- Total Annual Compensation Breakdown: Calculates first-year gross comp including sign-on bonuses versus recurring annual compensation.
- Cost-of-Living Purchasing Power Adjustment: Normalizes offer salaries against local cost-of-living index numbers to reveal real purchasing value.
- Weighted Multi-Factor Decision Matrix: Assign custom percentage weights to Compensation, PTO and Remote flexibility, and Career Growth.
- Side-by-Side Offer Ranking: Ranks competing job offers with clear score badges and key highlight tags.
- First-Year vs Recurring Comp Isolation: Separates one-time sign-on bonuses and relocation stipends from long-term recurring salary.
- Markdown and JSON Exporting: Export clean comparison matrices as Markdown text or downloadable JSON backup files.
Local Browser Privacy
Your files are processed locally on your device. Files are not uploaded, transmitted, or stored on remote servers.
Once the page has loaded, you can disconnect your network connection and continue using this tool offline.
Target Use Cases
- • Evaluating Multiple Tech Job Offers
- • Relocation vs Remote Work Decisions
- • Salary Negotiation Planning
- • Contractor vs Full-Time Employment Evaluation
Technical Specifications & Platform Limits
Calculates total first-year package and recurring annual income.
Combines financial value with lifestyle and career satisfaction metrics.
Adjusts purchasing power relative to a 100 baseline benchmark index.
Zero server storage, network uploads, or remote telemetry.
Step-by-Step Workflow
Input Competing Job Offer Details
Enter base salary, expected bonuses, annual equity value, and 1st-year sign-on bonuses.
Set Local Cost of Living Index
Enter cost-of-living index figures (100 = average benchmark city) to adjust real purchasing power.
Adjust Decision Priority Weights
Use priority sliders to balance Compensation, Work-Life Balance, and Career Growth.
Review Ranked Scores and Export Summary
Inspect the winning offer ranking and copy a Markdown summary for decision making.
Practical Real-World Use Cases
Evaluating Multiple Tech Job Offers
Compare remote startup equity offers against established corporate enterprise base salary packages.
Relocation vs Remote Work Decisions
Determine whether moving to a high-cost tech hub offers higher real savings after rent and taxes.
Salary Negotiation Planning
Identify weak points in job offers such as lower PTO or missing 401k match to guide counter-offers.
Contractor vs Full-Time Employment Evaluation
Compare high hourly W2 or 1099 contractor rates against salaried benefits packages.
Frequently Asked Questions
- How is the Cost of Living adjustment calculated?
- The tool multiplies recurring total compensation by 100 divided by the COL Index. A 120 COL index reduces real purchasing power by ~16.7% relative to a baseline 100 benchmark.
- Why separate First-Year Comp from Recurring Comp?
- Sign-on bonuses and one-time relocation stipends inflate your first year income but do not recur in year 2 and beyond.
- Can I compare more than 2 job offers at once?
- Yes. Click Add Job Offer to compare 3, 4, or more competing offers simultaneously.
- Is my salary information private?
- Yes. All offer evaluations run 100% locally in your web browser memory.
- How do the weighting sliders affect final scores?
- Slider weights determine what percentage of the 0-100 score comes from Financials, Work-Life Balance, and Growth/Culture.
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