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Compare offers side by side, separating guaranteed cash from targets, equity and unknowns.
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Work Decision Simulator
Compare whole job or work scenarios — pay, upside, costs, local prices, hours, flexibility and the things only you can judge. See money, time and preferences separately, then test how your priorities change the picture.
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Results — money, time and preferences, kept apart
What would change the picture
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Calculation simulator.work-decision v1.0.0. Price levels: BEA Regional Price Parities 2024 (updated February 19, 2026). Gross amounts before tax.
How the simulator works
It uses the same engines as the rest of the site — the offer comparison, commute and cost of living calculators — and shows three kinds of result separately:
- Money: guaranteed pay, pay after your costs, pay adjusted for local price levels, upside (bonus targets and equity estimates), and a 5-year view using your own raise assumption.
- Time: work and commute hours, office days, paid days off.
- Preferences: your own ratings for what you care about.
The optional priority view, explained
If you set priorities, each criterion is put on a simple proportional scale: the best scenario on that criterion gets 100% and the others get their value as a share of the best — so a pay difference of 1% counts as 1%, not as a win. For "less is better" criteria such as hours, a scenario loses the share by which it's above the best. Your weights decide how much each criterion counts. The result shows every criterion's contribution, so nothing is hidden — and we also show which priorities, if you dropped them, would change the order.
Σ (your weight × criterion scale) ÷ Σ your weights = share of your priorities met
What happens with unknown values
If any scenario has an unknown value for a criterion (for example no raise assumption), that criterion is left out of the priority view and listed, rather than treating the unknown as zero.