Financial history & "what changes for you" (plain language)¶

An optional screen where you can tell WorkWingman a bit about your money situation — what you make now, where you live, what insurance you have, and (if you remember) the same for past jobs. Nothing here is required. Fill in whatever you know, skip the rest, and come back later if you want.

Technical version: ../technical/financial-profile.md.

The one thing to know: this never leaves your computer¶

Your resume answers and story prompts get backed up to a Google Sheet in your Drive (that's the normal sync everything else in this app does). Your financial history does not. It's saved in the same local file folder as everything else on your machine, and that's the only place it ever lives. No upload, no sync, no "send to the cloud" button anywhere in this feature — on purpose, because salary and health-insurance history is more sensitive than a resume.

What you can fill in¶

Where you stand today — your current salary, your current city, and your current insurance carrier (Aetna, Cigna, UnitedHealthcare, Blue Cross Blue Shield, Kaiser, or type anything else).
Past jobs, if you remember them — company, title, salary, insurance carrier, the dates you worked there, and whether you were a W-2 employee or a 1099 contractor:
W-2 means you were a regular employee — taxes came out of your paycheck automatically, and you may have had employer-sponsored health insurance.
1099 means you were an independent contractor — you got paid the full amount and handled your own taxes yourself, usually with no employer benefits.

There's a plain button for "W-2," "1099," or "not sure / skip" — no guessing required.

Every box has an "(optional)" label next to it. You can save with everything blank, and you can save with just one field filled in. Both are completely normal.

What it's for: "What changes for you"¶

Once you've filled in even a little of this, job postings you're considering get a small card called "What changes for you" on their documents page. It quietly compares the job to your current situation:

Salary — how much more (or less) the new job pays than what you told WorkWingman you make now.
Estimated take-home pay — a rough after-tax comparison, so a bigger number on paper doesn't hide a smaller raise in your actual paycheck.
Cost-of-living adjusted — if the new job is somewhere with a different cost of living, this adjusts the take-home number so you're comparing apples to apples.
Insurance — if you know your current carrier and the job lists (or you enter) a different one, it flags the change and, where relevant, a note about anything that might affect gender-affirming care coverage specifically — always with a reminder to double-check the real plan document before assuming anything.

If you haven't filled in enough for a particular comparison, that part of the card just doesn't show a number — instead you might see a short note like "add your current salary to see how this job compares." The card disappears entirely if there's nothing useful to say — you'll never see an empty box asking you for information you didn't want to give.

Where the numbers come from right now¶

Right now, the salary/cost-of-living/insurance math is being built by teammate features running in parallel (income tax estimates, city cost-of-living data, and insurance-plan comparisons). Until those land, this feature uses simple placeholder logic — a flat estimate for take-home pay, and "not enough data yet" for cost-of-living and insurance comparisons — so the card and the form both work today, and get sharper automatically once the real data sources are wired in. Nothing about your privacy changes when that happens; the comparison math gets better, the "never leaves your machine" rule doesn't move.