Raises & Growth
Promotion Timeline
Quantify the lifetime gain from locking a promotion in a few years sooner than planned.
Value of Promoting Sooner
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Extra lifetime earnings from earlier pay
Annual Bump
$0
Lifetime Gain
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Lifetime Bump: Later vs Sooner
💡 The Cost of Waiting
Promotion Timeline Calculator
The Promotion Timeline Calculator quantifies the value of getting promoted sooner. Because a promotion raises your pay for every year that follows, pulling it forward a few years adds those higher-paid years to the front of your career. You enter your current salary, the salary bump at promotion, how many years sooner you could earn it, and your years remaining, and it returns the lifetime gain. Use it to decide how aggressively to push for an early promotion.