Employment Calculators

Pay, leave, and hiring costs all sit in this section, split between tools for individual workers and tools for the people managing a team. A salary figure means little on its own; these calculators turn it into hourly rates, leave balances, and hiring costs.

Virginia’s income tax looks progressive on paper and works like a flat tax in practice.

Pittsburgh paychecks carry six tax layers: federal income tax, Social Security, Medicare, Pennsylvania’s flat 3.07%, Pittsburgh’s city wage tax and Allegheny County’s 1%.

Working a holiday usually earns a premium, most often time and a half, sometimes double time.

Seasonal work pays well for a few months and nothing for the rest, which makes “what do I actually earn” a trickier question than it looks.

Every December, millions of Filipino workers wait for the one payday that is written into law: 13th month pay.

A $60,000 salary sounds like one number until you divide it by the minutes you actually work.

A stay-at-home parent’s work has a market price, even though no one writes the paycheck.

The management to staff ratio counts how many managers an organization carries for each non-management employee: 10 managers and 50 staff is a ratio of 0.200, written as a span of control of 1 : 5.0.

Losing a job is stressful enough without doing severance math by hand, and a layoff package is rarely one number.

When a UK employer becomes insolvent, employees can claim unpaid wages, accrued holiday pay, notice pay and statutory redundancy, and part of that claim ranks ahead of ordinary creditors.