Let’s be honest, that first salary raise feels like freedom. Next thing, your favorite restaurant changes, Bolt replaces bus, and somehow, you’re still counting days to payday. This tool is your mirror it shows if your new lifestyle is silently eating your bag.

How to use it:

1. Enter your old salary and expenses from when you started working.
2. Enter your current salary and expenses.
3. Hit calculate and wait for the truth to load.
4. The tool tells you how much your income grew, how much your spending grew, and whether your savings rate got better or worse.

If it flashes Danger Zone, your lifestyle is outrunning your income. If it says Winning, you’re playing the game right. And if you’re in Lifestyle Inflation Alert, it means you’re spending every raise instead of stacking it.

You’ll also see personalized action steps from cutting deadweight subscriptions to challenging yourself to live on last year’s salary for one month.

Why it hits:

Because a bigger paycheck shouldn’t mean a bigger struggle. The goal isn’t to look rich, it’s to be free. So go ahead, face your numbers. The results might humble you, but at least they’ll wake you up.