Job Offer Comparison

The higher salary loses more often than people expect. A weaker match, a worse health plan or a more expensive city can erase a raise entirely — and none of that appears in the number the recruiter quotes.

What This Workbook Does

• Three offers side by side, with base salary as one row among many.
• Employer retirement match, healthcare premiums and employer contributions, bonus and equity.
• A cost-of-living adjustment, so a move is compared honestly rather than nominally.

How to Use It

1. Enter base salary for each offer, then keep going — that line decides less than it seems.
2. Enter the employer match as it is actually structured, including any vesting period.
3. Put in real healthcare premiums and deductibles from the plan documents, not the summary slide.
4. Apply a cost-of-living factor if the offers are in different markets.
5. Compare the totals, then decide what the non-financial differences are worth to you.

What It Will Not Do

This prices the offer, not the job. Vesting schedules, promotion paths and how much you will want to be there in three years are outside the arithmetic and often outweigh it.