$55,000 · 50 hours

$55,000 at 50 hours is a $16.50 kept hour.

Gross is $22.00. After a 25% planning tax load, you keep $16.50. Evenings above a 40-hour week: 500 hours a year. Commute is not in that yet.

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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