Raise Negotiation Calculator

Employees struggle to figure out fair salary increases during annual reviews without concrete data. A calculator that gathers industry benchmarks, experience level, and performance metrics to suggest fair raise percentages backed by real data. Target users are employees preparing for salary negotiations.

Salary transparency is having a genuine cultural moment — pay equity laws in California, New York, and the EU are forcing companies to publish ranges, which means employees now have more reference data than ever but still lack a coherent framework for using it in a negotiation. Levels.fyi and Glassdoor already own the benchmarking layer for tech workers, which is the highest-value segment; a standalone calculator without proprietary data is essentially a prettier interface on top of what those platforms already offer for free. The revenue problem is structural: employees negotiate raises once a year at most, so retention is brutal and willingness to pay for a one-time tool is low — any realistic monetization points toward a freemium lead-gen play or B2B pivot toward HR teams, neither of which fits the stated B2C framing. The most likely failure mode is that users grab the output once, don't convert to paid, and churn immediately, leaving no sustainable unit economics to build on.