WageKeep — Real Income Calculators
Real take-home math for freelancers and job offers
What this is
Free calculators comparing 1099-contract vs W-2 take-home pay, and the hourly rate you need to hit an income goal, using real tax numbers instead of rough mental math.
Our one-line summary — not the founder’s tagline.
- How it works
- Two free calculators: one compares 1099-contract vs W-2 take-home pay using real 2026 federal tax brackets, the other finds the hourly rate you need to charge to hit an income goal, factoring in self-employment tax, health insurance and the QBI deduction.
- Pricing
- Free.
- Best for
- Freelancers and people comparing a contract offer against a salaried W-2 job who want real take-home numbers instead of a rough mental estimate.
What we measured
Nobody else publishes this — it comes from knocking on the door every day.
- Watched by us
- 15 days
- Last checked
- 2d ago
Where it shows up
Every group here is a page of its own — each one checked daily.
The numbersIs it still shipping, is it overpriced, where did it land — and what the price is built from.
League price & chart
No money. No seat. It goes on your record — and in 28 days reality settles it.
Calls are closed while we rebuild accounts. You can still read every one of them.
Finance. Launched 15d ago on Product Hunt, picking up 2 votes. Today, the site itself changed 2d ago — evidence it's still shipping, not just announcing.
Quiet for 1 day — no penalty yet, but quiet doesn't stay free.
We check this site every day, ourselves. A founder can post “still working on it” — a claim like that doesn't price. What we price is what we can verify from the outside: evidence, not announcements. The real question isn't “will this be huge?” — it's “will they still be moving in four weeks?”
Shipping record
1 separate day we saw this ship · source: page changed
Beyan değil kanıt: founder “çalışıyoruz” diye post atabilir, ama sevk ettiyse izi kalır. ⚠️ Kaydı olmayan ürün “sevk etmedi” demek değildir — o üründe izleyecek bir kaynağımız yok demektir.
The market viewHow this launch is priced and ranked in our league — the investor side of the page.
ranked by the reality anchor, not the market price
It launched on Product Hunt with 2 votes.
No matter how much money goes in. There is no pump here — you can't make yourself right by buying more. The line only moves on things that actually happened: an award, revenue that grew, a new platform, code that shipped — or silence.
En eski 2 hareket bu listede yok — toplam 14 olay var. 2 quiet days in between are left out — nothing happened on them. A launch that goes quiet eases down a little at a time — never a cliff you could have run from the night before.
Daily tracking just started for this launch — the first point is on the board. A second reading lands with tomorrow's run, and the curve builds from there.
How the launch is moving on its own board, day by day — the crowd's attention.
A flat line is normal: votes stop within a day or two of launch, on every board. What's unusual — and what actually counts — is a launch that keeps pulling votes long after its day is over.
About
WageKeep is a pair of free calculators that answer the question every quick mental estimate gets wrong: what do I actually take home? Compare a 1099 contract against a W-2 salary using real 2026 federal tax brackets, or find the exact hourly rate you need to charge to hit your income goal with self-employment tax, health insurance, and the QBI deduction included, not skipped.
Where it launched
1 platform| Platform | Votes | Counts toward price | Link |
|---|---|---|---|
| Product Hunt | 2 | sets the price | ↗ |
The board it did best on sets the price. Every other board only adds to it if the launch also placed high on that board too — because just showing up somewhere isn't an achievement. Listing on twelve directories is free; placing well on them isn't.
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