Income tools
Four calculators that put your own pay on the same scale as the counters on this site. Enter a monthly figure once and every tool uses it.
Compare your income
Turn your monthly pay into a per-second rate, then see how long each counter needs to earn what you earn in a month.
Your lifetime earnings
A deliberately crude estimate of everything you have earned since turning eighteen, set against how quickly the counters cover the same amount.
Time to buy
How long you would need to work, at your current pay, to cover the price of a phone, a car or a small apartment.
Wealth inequality
How long you have to work to earn what the largest counters on this site earn in a single second.
What these tools share
Every tool starts from one number: what you are paid in a month. It is multiplied by twelve and divided by the 31,536,000 seconds in a calendar year, which gives the per-second rate you see next to the counters. That is the same arithmetic the entity pages use, so the two sides of every comparison are built the same way.
The figure you type stays in your browser. It is kept in local storage so you do not have to enter it again when you open another tool, and it is never sent anywhere. Clearing your site data removes it.
None of this is financial advice, and none of it models tax. The point is scale: how long a company needs to cover your month, how many years of your working life fit inside a single second of someone else's counter. Those ratios are easier to feel than the annual totals they come from.
Frequently Asked Questions
Should I enter gross or net pay?
Either works, as long as you know which you used. The counters are gross figures — company revenue before costs, earnings before tax and agent fees — so gross pay is the closer comparison.
Is my salary stored on the server?
No. It is held in your browser's local storage and read back by the tools on this device only. Nothing about it reaches our servers or appears in any log.
Why per second rather than per hour?
Because the counters are per second, and because a second is short enough that the gap between an individual and a large company stops being an abstraction. At an hourly scale most of these comparisons round to zero.