Prepare for salary negotiations with total compensation comparison, market range analysis, and counteroffer scenario modeling.
This tool converts a salary negotiation into arithmetic you can rehearse. It takes each offer's components - base salary, target bonus, equity, signing bonus - and combines them into a year-one total compensation figure, so offers with different structures can be compared directly. It also checks an offer against a market range for the role and models counteroffers, showing the dollar gap between what you were offered, what you could ask for, and where a negotiation might settle. The surprise most users hit: comparing only base salaries. Bonus and signing money routinely determine which offer is genuinely worth more, and negotiating only the base leaves real money behind.
A concrete input and expected output from the current implementation.
Input
Offer A: $115,000 base, 8% target bonus, $25,000 signing bonus. Offer B: $125,000 base, 5% target bonus, $10,000 signing bonus.
Expected output
Year-one totals: Offer A = $149,200 ($115,000 base + $9,200 bonus + $25,000 signing). Offer B = $141,250 ($125,000 base + $6,250 bonus + $10,000 signing). Offer A is worth $7,950 more in year one despite a $10,000 lower base; the entire difference comes from bonus and signing money.
The tool adds target bonus (a percentage of base) and one-time signing money to base salary for a year-one total. Offer A's higher bonus rate and larger signing bonus more than offset its lower base, which is the comparison users most often miss.
The tool breaks each offer into the same components - base salary, target bonus, recurring equity, and one-time money like a signing bonus - and adds them into an annual total. Because every offer is normalized the same way, offers with different structures line up side by side, and the dollar difference between them is explicit rather than a guess from glancing at base salaries.
The tool places your offer inside a market range for the role - a low, typical, and high figure - and shows where the offer falls within it. It then models counteroffer scenarios: the number you could ask for, the gap between the offer and the ask, and the totals if you settle at different points between them.
A common play is to ask near the top of the range you entered and expect the settlement to land between your ask and the original offer. Ask higher when the range is credible, the role is hard to fill, and you hold another offer; ask lower when the range is optimistic or you have no leverage.
No. The tool compares money, and money is not the whole decision. It cannot weigh growth, job security, culture, commute, vesting schedules, or the real chance a bonus gets paid. Use the comparison to know the dollar difference between offers, then decide with the factors the tool does not see.
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