Salary Negotiation Range Calculator

The experience factor is 1 + years × 0.02 × (1 − years/60), with years capped at 30. That (1 − years/60) term shrinks as experience rises, so each additional year adds less to the multiplier than the last, and the whole premium mathematically reaches zero at 60 years — meaning the model concentrates the biggest gains in early-to-mid-career years rather than rewarding decades of tenure linearly.

The floor is calculated as whichever is higher: your current salary, or 90% of the fully adjusted market value. Because it takes the maximum of those two numbers rather than always using the 90% figure, the floor can never fall below what you're already earning — even if your adjusted market value comes out lower than your current pay for some reason.

Current Market Position compares your raw current salary directly to the unadjusted market median you entered — it ignores your experience, performance, certifications, and cost-of-living inputs entirely. Target Salary, by contrast, is the market median after all four of those multipliers have been applied. A low market-position percentage combined with a modest gap-to-target tells you the role's baseline pay is behind market, separate from any credit for your personal qualifications.

The performance multiplier is 0.825 + rating × 0.075, so it runs from 0.90x at a rating of 1 up to 1.20x at a rating of 5 — a full 30-percentage-point swing between the lowest and highest ratings, applied multiplicatively alongside the experience, certification, and cost-of-living factors. Because all four multipliers stack, a strong performance rating combined with several certifications compounds rather than simply adding.