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Job Offer Comparison

Salary is one line of the offer. Bonus, match, PTO, healthcare, and cost of living turn two "similar" offers into very different deals.

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 AOffer B

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.