The offers
Offer A
Offer B
Cost of living index: pick a baseline city as 100 and scale the other (e.g., moving from Columbus (100) to Seattle (~118)). Online COL comparisons give the ratio.
First-year value, line by line
| Offer A | Offer B |
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PTO is valued at your daily pay rate (salary ÷ 260 working days). The bottom line divides by the COL index, putting both offers in baseline-city dollars.