Salary Calculators

Thank you for using the Apparel Search website. Finding a job that you enjoy is crucial. It is also very important to find a company that will pay you what you are worth. When selecting a career path in the garment industry, many factors come into play when selecting a field of interest and an employer. Salary calculators may help you gauge the market to see if you are making too much, too little, or if your compensation is in the perfect range.

Salary Calculator Resources

NACE Salary Calculator

NACE is the leading source of information about the employment of the college educated, and the essential link connecting college career services and HR/recruiting professionals at corporations hiring new college graduates. The NACE Salary Calculator is provided in partnership with Job Search Intelligence (JSI). Using patent-pending algorithms, the calculator creates compensation values from datasets which are proprietary to JSI and are derived from: U.S. Department of Labor, U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, U.S. Census Bureau, U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis, U.S. Federal Reserve, and proprietary resources.

ADP Paycheck Calculator

The ADP Paycheck Calculator estimates your net pay or “take home pay”, which is wages after withholdings and taxes.

Careerbuilder Salary Search

Find annual salaries and compare average salary information locally. Type in your job title and location and you will see a national average estimate and the estimate for the location you selected.

PayScale Salary Calculator

PayScale's free salary calculator compares pay against market data by job title, location, and experience.

Salary.com

You can also visit the Salary.com website for salary information, compensation data and career resources.

How to Use Salary Data Well

Compare Like With Like

A salary figure only means something against the right comparison. Run the same job title in your own city and in the national market, and notice how wide the range is: fashion pay in New York or Los Angeles sits well above the same role in a smaller market, and a senior patternmaker, a first-year design assistant and a store manager are three different markets even inside one company. Experience, the size of the employer and whether the role carries commission, bonuses or freelance day rates all move the number, so treat any single estimate as the middle of a range rather than a verdict.

Gross Pay Is Not Take-Home Pay

The salary calculators above estimate what a role pays; a paycheck calculator answers a different question — what actually lands in your bank account after federal, state and local taxes and other withholdings. The gap between the two surprises many people changing jobs or moving to a higher-tax city. Before accepting an offer, run the offered salary through a paycheck calculator for the state where you will work, and compare take-home figures rather than headline salaries when you weigh two offers in different places.

Use the Data in Negotiation and Planning

Market data works best as preparation. Knowing the typical range for your role and city lets you judge whether an offer is fair, support a raise request with evidence instead of hope, and spot postings priced well below the market. Employers expect candidates to have looked — the Apparel Search employment agencies directory and the wider calculators section are worth browsing alongside these tools, and recruiters who specialize in fashion can tell you how the published ranges compare with what apparel companies are actually paying right now.