Worth It?

Choose from 830 occupations and 440 U.S. locations, then toggle the expenses that apply to you: housing, a car, childcare, student loans, and more. The app recalculates in real time, ranking every state and metro by what is actually left after taxes, rent, and the cost of being alive there.

Rankings go beyond take-home pay. It scores resilience (how long your runway lasts after a layoff), mobility (room to climb based on local pay ladders and employer density), and a "time tax" that re-prices your hourly wage once commute and unpaid hours are counted, alongside context like disaster risk, crime, air quality, and life expectancy.

Every figure traces back to official public data (BLS, Census, Zillow, FEMA, FBI, and CDC) assembled into a fast, fully static, shareable snapshot.