# Leverage Offer Call Prep Calculator

URL: https://calculator.salari.dev/
Author: Mike Salari
Publisher: salari.dev
Last updated: 2026-06-30

## Summary

Leverage Offer Call Prep Calculator is a free, private browser-based calculator for software engineers preparing for a recruiter offer call. It models base salary, target bonus, equity or RSU vesting, sign-on bonus, refreshers, private-company equity discounting, current compensation, market target compensation, and competing-offer leverage.

The calculator outputs a year 1 to year 4 total compensation model, a gap-to-target estimate, one recommended negotiation lever, and a recruiter-call script the engineer can read or adapt before negotiating.

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## Key features

- Four-year total compensation model
- Base, bonus, equity, sign-on, refresher, and vesting inputs
- Even, front-loaded, and back-loaded vesting presets
- Private equity and options discounting
- Base-capped and level-risk negotiation toggles
- Generated recruiter-call script
- One recommended lever for the next offer conversation
- Local-only calculation; no numbers are sent to a server

## Related product

The full paid product is Leverage: The Negotiation Operating System, an offer-call prep kit for engineers negotiating software offers. It adds the handbook, worksheet app, scripts, source appendix, and emergency playbook.

Gumroad: https://mikesalari.gumroad.com/l/leverage-negotiation-os

## Disclaimer

Educational career strategy only. Not legal, financial, tax, or immigration advice.