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Free Calculator · Tool 3 of 9 · 4 Minutes

Career Impact
Calculator

Six components. One number. The real cost of staying where you are — in your currency, against your specific situation.

6
Cost Components
7
Currencies
4
Recovery Moves
Currency
Salary
Delay
Blind Spot
Labour Tax
Review
Step 1 of 6
What currency are you working in?

Select your primary currency. All calculations and your results will display in this currency.

Step 2 of 6
What is your current annual salary?

Enter your gross annual salary. If you are paid monthly, multiply by 12. This is the baseline for every calculation that follows.

Step 3 of 6
How long have you been at your current level?

In your field, how many years is considered a standard tenure before the next promotion? Compare that to how long you have actually been at this level.

3 years
1 year10 years
2 years
1 year5 years
Step 4 of 6
What is the primary reason your advancement has stalled?

Be honest. This shapes the recovery strategy you will receive — not the cost figure.

Competence Attachment
I keep delivering excellent work and expecting advancement to follow. I have not built the political relationships or visibility that actually drive promotion decisions.
Security Illusion
I feel it is safer to stay. I keep waiting for a better moment, for more certainty, for the environment to change. The right time never quite arrives.
Reputation Anchoring
I am so defined by what I have always done that decision-makers cannot see what I am capable of next. My past has become a ceiling rather than a foundation.
Step 5 of 6
Estimate your invisible labour taxes

These are the costs that do not appear in any spreadsheet — the unrewarded work that absorbs your capacity without returning career capital.

Uncredited work, reassigned wins, contribution that enables others' advancement but not yours. Estimate as a % of your salary — most women underestimate this by half.
15%
0%40%
Code-switching, managing perception, over-explaining your presence, navigating environments that require more from you than your peers to achieve the same outcome.
10%
0%30%
Step 6 of 6
Review your inputs

Confirm your figures before calculating. Go back to adjust anything.