Offer Comparison

What a weighted score can and cannot tell you

Comparing offers on CTC alone is easy and usually wrong, because the things that determine whether you are happy in two years - the work, the manager, the hours - do not have a rupee value. A weighted score is a way of making those comparable without pretending they are objective.

The integrity of this tool is entirely in making the weights explicit, adjustable and visible in the result. It does not tell you which offer is better. It tells you which offer wins on the priorities you stated, which is a genuinely useful thing to see written down - particularly when the answer is not the one you expected.

How the scoring works

Money criteria are scaled across only the offers you entered: the highest cash package scores 100, the lowest scores 0, and the rest fall in between. Subjective criteria are one-to-five scores you set, mapped linearly. Each criterion's sub-score is multiplied by its weight, and the contributions are shown alongside the total so the ranking is arguable rather than oracular.

• Two to five offers, scored on seven criteria
• Default weights published on the page, not hidden in code
• Weights re-normalise to 100% live, so they need not add up as you type
• Every criterion's contribution shown, summing to the total
• Results within two points flagged as too close to call

Why money is scaled against your offers, not a benchmark

There is no market dataset behind this tool, so there is no defensible external scale on which to place a given package. What is defensible is a relative one: within the offers you actually hold, the best cash package scores full marks. That answers 'which of these' rather than pretending to answer 'is this good' - and the second question needs data we would rather admit we lack than invent.

What it will not do

It will not tell you the objectively best offer, because there is no such thing and any tool claiming otherwise is passing off its own weights as fact. It will not value your equity - you supply a figure and your own haircut - and it will not score a company's culture or work-life balance from reviews, because scraped sentiment is a poor proxy and the ratings would look more authoritative than they are.

It also does not compute take-home or tax per offer. Use the in-hand salary calculator for that and enter the results here if take-home rather than CTC is what you want compared.