Salary Negotiation & Job Offer Math

What you'll build

What you will be able to do

Each lab ends with a concrete result that you build yourself and the checker confirms, cell by cell.

• Convert a salaried and an hourly offer into the same units, add paid overtime, and find which job really pays more per hour you work.
• Put a dollar value on everything in three offers (an expected bonus, the employer's benefit costs and the retirement match) and find which one is really worth the most.
• Build a vesting schedule with a one-year cliff, value stock options and RSUs at different share prices, find the break-even price and chart both.
• Build a weighted cost-of-living index for two cities from Sam's own budget, translate the offer into home-city money and find the real raise.
• Put a price on each offer's commute in money and in hours, add the home-office costs of remote work and find the real pay per hour of your time.
• Turn total compensation into a 0–10 score, weight it with Sam's other criteria in a scorecard, rank the three offers and name the winner.
• Place the offer in the market range, set an anchored counter-offer, calculate the raise if you meet in the middle and see what it is worth over 10 years of compounding raises.
• Add up everything the employer pays on top of the salary, count the hours a contractor can really bill and gross up the rate that matches the employee offer.