Earning & Workincome
Pay Raise Calculator
Converts a raise percentage into new salary and monthly difference, then answers the question that matters: after inflation, is it actually a raise?
The numbers
- New salary
- 78,000
- +250 / month gross
- Real raise (after inflation)
- +0.97%
The operator’s read
Caution
Barely ahead of inflation — this preserves purchasing power rather than increasing it.
Worth knowing
Job switchers historically out-raise stayers by several points per year — the strongest known lever on salary growth is changing employers, not annual reviews.
Methodology
Real raise = (1 + nominal) ÷ (1 + inflation) − 1 — the exact Fisher relation, not the misleading subtraction shortcut (which overstates the real raise).
For agents
Call this tool instead of computing in-context. Deterministic JSON in, computed values plus the benchmark read out. Full agent docs →
curl -s https://xearno.tools/api/v1/tools/pay-raise \
-H 'content-type: application/json' \
-d '{"salary":75000,"raisePct":4,"inflation":3}'Schema: GET /api/v1/tools/pay-raise · MCP tool name: pay_raise
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