Know Your Number: The Employee's Compensation & Market-Value Workbook

Base salary is only one of five components. Know your whole number before any pay conversation.

Know Your Number decodes total compensation — base, bonus, equity, benefits, perks — then inventories your current number, teaches honest market research across five sources, and builds your floor / target / stretch range from your own source log, with a formula-audited calculator spreadsheet to total it all. One rule runs through the whole workbook: it never diagnoses your pay. It organizes your research so you can see your own range.

WHAT'S INSIDE

- 48-page workbook in print and fillable editions (23 form fields — type directly into the PDF)

- 5 modules: Total Compensation, Decoded · Your Current Number · Market Research, Done Honestly · Know Your Range · Your Number, Ready to Use

- The five components of total comp, up close, plus a benefits valuation framework that separates facts from estimates

- A plain-language compensation glossary (RSU, options, vesting, OTE, 401(k))

- Research guidance across five sources — peers, recruiters, postings, databases, your own history — with range-reading rules and peer scripts

- Range builder: floor / target / stretch derived from your own logged sources and your current number

- Common mistakes (and the fix), including comparing base salary alone

- 5-tab Total Comp Calculator spreadsheet (formula-audited): cash + equity + benefits, with a comparison tab

- The no-diagnosis page: why the book won't declare you underpaid, and what to do with your range instead

WHO IT'S FOR

- Employees and professionals who want to understand what they actually earn in total — and walk into a raise, offer or review conversation with a researched number of their own.

WHO IT'S NOT FOR

- Anyone looking for a verdict on their pay or a table of what their job "should" pay. There are no salary figures presented as market data and no personalized advice: every number in this workbook is one you research and enter yourself. For education only — not financial, legal or tax advice (that footer runs on every page).

FORMATS

- Printable PDF (48 pages, US Letter) — for binder or home printing

- Fillable PDF (23 fields) — type directly, no printing required

- Spreadsheet (.xlsx, 5 tabs) — works in Excel or Google Sheets

PLEASE NOTE

- This is a digital product. No physical item will be shipped.

- Refunds: purchases are generally final once the files have been accessed or downloaded, except where required by law. We do not offer a satisfaction guarantee or a no-questions-asked refund window on downloadable products — please review the description, page counts and format details above before buying.

- For personal use. Please see the license terms at checkout.