Pay calculator
What is my check worth at this rank, step and schedule?
Hourly rate
Overtime rate
24-hour OT shift
Bring Your Contract to Life.
Put your negotiated benefits at your fingertips. Explore your pay, retirement, 457, and contract language through interactive tools built for your local.
Sample Local 0000Sample data from a sample local
Step 5 of the salary schedule
gross this check
Estimated monthly pension
Projected DROP balance
Move the date. The pension and the DROP balance follow the plan’s own rules.
at retirement
Projected 457 balance
Every result gives the article, the section and the page.
A real local with a real CBA
Our first build was for the Professional Firefighters of Miramar, Local 2820. Members there now answer their own pay, pension, DROP, 457, and CBA questions on their phone without having to consult with their executive board for guidance.
Pay results are reconciled against actual paychecks to ensure accuracy.
Pay result
Pension and DROP
457 projection
CBA search
Above are screenshots from the Local 2820 member tools.
About the founder
Ryan Myers
Founder · Local Labor Systems
Practical tools, built from firsthand union experience.
- Fire service
- Florida Fire Captain
- Union leadership
- Vice President & Trustee8 years, Executive Board
- Bargaining
- Negotiating Team Member
- Member benefits
- Pension Board & Health Trust Board
It began with a problem Ryan saw in his own local: members wanted direct answers.
- What should my pay be?
- What will I earn after a promotion?
- What could I accumulate in DROP?
- Where does the CBA address this?
The answers existed, but they were scattered across CBAs, salary schedules, pension documents, and spreadsheets. So he built tools that let members find them for themselves.
Bring one real member question.In 15 minutes, see how it becomes a clear, usable tool built around your local’s documents.
Book a 15-minute walkthrough
Four tools, each with a working sample
Start with one or take all four. Each is built from your local’s own documents. Tap a boxed figure to see where it comes from.
Pension and DROP estimator
What will I retire on, and what does DROP add?
Monthly pension at 25 years
457 planner
What will my balance be, or how much per check reaches a target?
Searchable CBA
Where does the CBA say that? Search a word and get the sentence, the article, the section and the page.
Search:
Each employee on the 24/48 schedule receives one Kelly day every seventh shift. A Kelly day is a scheduled shift off without loss of pay.
How a build works
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Documents in
You send your collective bargaining agreement (CBA), pay plan and pension plan documents, plus a few pay advices to check against.
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Rules read and checked
We read each rule from your documents and keep it with the sentence it came from. Nothing about pay or pension is assumed. If a value cannot be found, the build stops and we ask.
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Tool out
Members get the tool at your local’s own address. Lines with no published formula appear as manual entries marked “formula not in your CBA.”
Price your local
Pick your size and package. One setup price to build and launch, and one monthly Stay Current plan to keep it hosted, supported and correct when your rules change. The Individual Tool is a one-time price.
Partner pricing
- Setup
- Stay Current
a month- First-year total
These are “from” prices. With complex rules, the final price is set in writing after the walkthrough.
Book a 15-minute walkthrough Request scope and priceYou do not need your own domain. See what each plan includes
Taking this to your board? Open a ready-to-send email with the cost, a short motion, and the spend limit to check in your bylaws. Or .
Labor Intelligence
Walk into negotiations with the numbers the city is using.
Bargaining research for your negotiating team, from someone who sits on the union side of the table.
The core service
Rebuild the city’s offer. Cost your own.
We recreate the city’s offer sheet from their numbers and your employee data. Our rebuild is checked against the city’s own total before you rely on it. Then we cost your proposals the same way, so you can hand the city its own math back.
Comparables report
How your pay and benefits stack up against the departments an arbitrator or magistrate would compare you to. Starting pay, top step, incentives and hours, adjusted so it is apples to apples.
CBA comparison
Your CBA next to peer agreements, side by side: overtime, holiday pay, incentives, pension. Shows where you lead, where you trail, and what peers have that you do not.
Board-ready reports
A one-page summary for your board and members, plus a briefing for your negotiating team.
Sample City Fire Rescue
Contract cost model, FY1 to FY3
Scenario: City Offer A, rebuilt from census
Sample data
| FY1 | FY2 | FY3 | Total |
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Dollars in thousands. Sample data and rates.
Change the assumption and every line recalculates.
What we’ll need from you
- Employee census: rank, step, hire date, incentives, certifications, schedule. Names and Social Security numbers are not needed.
- The city’s offer sheets
- Your CBA and salary schedules
- Pension contribution rates
- Bring the question and the city’s latest offer.
- Send the data. We tell you exactly what is needed.
- Get the model, the rebuilt offer and a 30-minute briefing.
Pricing
Reports
Comparables report and CBA comparison, priced separately.
From each
Offer model
We rebuild the city’s offer, tie it out, and run what-ifs. The retainer lets Local Labor Systems recalculate your updated proposals as negotiations move.
From one time
Retainer: a month during negotiations
Bargaining package Best value
Everything your negotiating team needs, in one engagement.
- Comparables report
- CBA comparison
- Offer model build, with tie-out and what-ifs
- Retainer for recalculating offers
- Help writing your information request to the city
one time
Retainer: a month during negotiations
Saves compared with buying separately.
After ratification, bargaining clients receive off Member Tools Suite or Full Member Platform setup.
Retainer. When the city sends a new offer or your team changes a proposal, send it to us. Local Labor Systems recalculates the cost and returns the updated sheet, usually the next business day. Up to recalculations a month. Month to month, for the length of negotiations.
Multi-tier pensions and multiple bargaining units are quoted higher.
Your bargaining data stays yours and is never shared with another local.
Ask about Labor IntelligenceOr call (786) 346-7926
Let’s get your local started
Tell us where you are. A written scope and price follow.
If your CBA expires within the year, add the date. Rate tables change with it.
The samples are open to anyone. Members who find them tend to ask their board why the local does not have them.