Which offer is actually better?

The money on one side and everything else beside it. Nothing here prices your evenings — the commute is shown in hours, and costed only if you supply what an hour of your time is worth.

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Two offers, honestly compared

The money on one side, everything else beside it — never converted into a single score.

Local tool — your resume stays in this browser

The offers

Only then is commute costed. There is no correct default.

The money

Everything else

Listed beside the money and never added into it.

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What is and is not combined

Each offer is annualised the same way: bonus and pension as percentages of base, equity divided across vesting, sign-on spread over a year.

Non-monetary factors are never converted into currency. A tool that priced "three days on site" would be inventing a number, and that trade is exactly the judgement that belongs to you.

Commute is shown in hours a year. It is costed only if you supply what an hour of your own time is worth — and the result is then explicitly your valuation rather than an objective figure.

The highest offer is often not the most certain

An offer weighted toward equity can have the larger headline and much less guaranteed money. Which you prefer depends on your circumstances, how long you expect to stay, and how much risk you can absorb.

That is a real decision and the arithmetic cannot make it. What it can do is show you the two numbers separately so you are making it deliberately.

Why the commute is in hours

A ten-hour weekly commute is around 460 hours a year — eleven working weeks. Whether that is worth 8,000 of extra salary depends entirely on what you would otherwise do with the time.

Pricing it for you would put a number on your evenings. Showing the hours and letting you supply the rate keeps the judgement where it belongs.

What this cannot see

The work itself, the people, whether you will learn anything, whether the company will exist in three years, and how you will feel on a Tuesday in month eight. Those decide job satisfaction far more reliably than the spread between two offers.

Use this to remove the arithmetic from the decision, not to make it.