Is the move worth the raise?
Compare your first-year relocation costs with your annual pay change, then see when the move could pay for itself.
Your comparison will appear here.
Enter all four amounts to see the first-year result and estimated break-even point.
First-year outlook
- Upfront move costs
- First-year relocation cost
- Annual pay change
- First-year net result
- Ongoing monthly difference
- Estimated break-even
Explain these results
- Upfront move costs are your moving and temporary housing totals combined.
- First-year relocation cost adds the annual cost-of-living increase to those upfront costs. If the new place is cheaper, those savings reduce the total.
- Ongoing monthly difference is the salary change minus the annual cost-of-living difference, divided by 12.
- Break-even estimates how many months of that ongoing difference it takes to recover the upfront move costs.
This comparison uses gross salary, not take-home pay. Taxes, bonuses, benefits, commuting, home-sale costs, and future raises are not included.