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The higher salary is not the higher hour.

People lose negotiations by comparing costumes. Compare kept hours. Tax load held at 25%, 50 weeks, no commute. Add the commute on each page before you decide.

$70,000 at 40h vs $90,000 at 55h

Kept hours: $26.25 vs $24.55. On the hour, the lower salary wins, before commute. First offer · Second offer

$80,000 at 40h vs $100,000 at 50h

Kept hours: $30.00 vs $30.00. On the hour, the lower salary wins, before commute. First offer · Second offer

$120,000 at 45h vs $150,000 at 60h

Kept hours: $40.00 vs $37.50. On the hour, the lower salary wins, before commute. First offer · Second offer

Annual salary Real hours per week, including the ones that “don’t count” Weeks you actually work Combined tax load, percent Round-trip commute, minutes Commute days per week Meeting hours per week

—Kept hour, after tax

—Kept hour after commute is counted as work

—Gross hourly, before tax

—Evening hours already sold (over 40 / week)

—Commute, valued at your kept hour

—Meetings, valued at your kept hour, per year

—Take-home, same tax load

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Put offer A in the calculator. Copy the kept hour. Put offer B in. The larger kept hour is the better trade of life for money, unless one offer buys a skill that raises next year’s hour. That exception is real. It is also the excuse people use to ignore a bad week. Name the skill or do not take the cut.