✦ A decision, not a prediction ✦
Which job offer
should I take?
Put both offers side by side on the things that actually change your next two years. You will get the arithmetic, the hours it costs you, and an honest note on the part no table can settle.
The spreadsheet is the easy half. The hard half is admitting what you want.
Offer A
Offer B
Why most comparisons get this wrong
People compare the two numbers that are easy to measure, salary and job title, and leave out the three that decide how the next two years actually feel: the commute, the manager, and whether you will learn anything.
The commute is the one that gets forgotten. Thirty minutes each way is about 230 hours a year. That is close to six working weeks of your life, every year, unpaid. Put that beside the salary difference and a lot of comparisons change shape.
So this page charges all of it, and shows you the working. Every weight is printed next to the result, which means you can disagree with one and say so. That matters: a tool that hides how it reached its answer is asking for your trust without earning it, and on a decision this size you should not give it.
What this cannot tell you
Worth saying before you use it, not after.
- It cannot know what either company will be like in a year, and neither can anyone else.
- It cannot tell you whether you will be laid off, promoted, or bored by March.
- It cannot rate a manager you met for forty minutes. Your rating is a guess, and the result inherits that guess.
- It cannot tell you what you actually want. That is the whole difficulty, and no arithmetic touches it.
What it can do is stop you deciding on the one number that was easiest to compare. For the rest, see what we will never tell you.
When the two scores come out close
It happens often, and it is not a failure of the method. A near-tie usually means the offers are genuinely comparable on paper, and that the decision is sitting somewhere the table does not reach: the people, the timing, the thing you have not said out loud yet.
That is the moment a reading is actually useful, and the only thing we will claim for it. Not a verdict on which job is right. A set of questions aimed at what you keep circling, so you notice which answer you were hoping to get.
Frequently asked
Should I just take the higher salary?
Only once you have seen what it costs. A bigger number with a longer commute, a manager you did not warm to and nothing new to learn can be worth less in two years than a smaller offer with the opposite. Compare like with like first.
What if I have three offers?
Run the two strongest against each other, then run the winner against the third. Comparing two things at a time is the only way most people can actually hold the trade-offs in their head.
Can a tarot or astrology reading decide this for me?
No, and we will not pretend otherwise. The comparison above is arithmetic and you can check every step of it. A reading is reflection. We keep the two clearly apart, and our published limits say exactly where the line is.
If you want to go further
Two paid readings exist for work questions. Neither will tell you which offer to take, and both say so.