Lifetime Income by Occupation Calculator

Lifetime Income by Occupation Calculator helps compare job, salary, or work-life choices with editable employment assumptions.

Occupation assumptions

Compares Korean career salary curves, taxes, insurance, and optional pension income.

Top by net lifetime income

Medical doctor

Top net lifetime income

₩5,147,047,482

Max net gap

₩3,864,201,981

Hourly income multiplier

2.96x

Occupation comparison

Grade 9 public official

₩1,415,218,605

Peak salary ₩69,164,119, hourly net ₩20,012

Large-company office role

₩2,313,852,307

Peak salary ₩139,539,143, hourly net ₩38,360

Medical doctor

₩5,147,047,482

Peak salary ₩279,548,614, hourly net ₩55,644

SME office role

₩1,282,845,501

Peak salary ₩63,840,000, hourly net ₩18,810

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Korea lifetime income by occupation calculator guide

This English page translates the Korean lifetime-income-by-occupation simulator and calls compareLifetimeIncomes. It keeps occupation salary curves, entry age, retirement age, bonus rate, tax-free monthly pay, social insurance, income tax, hourly net income, and optional pension income.

Career curves instead of one salary

The Korean source stores occupation profiles with starting annual salary, annual growth rate, growth type, retirement age, bonus rate, monthly tax-free amount, pension type, and annual work hours. The English page compares selected profiles through the same data and function.

Growth can be linear, exponential, logistic, or stepped depending on occupation. This means lifetime income is generated year by year, not estimated by multiplying one salary by one career length.

Taxes and 4-insurance

Each year applies Korean earned-income deduction, income-tax brackets, local income tax, pension contribution, Health Insurance, long-term care, and employment insurance where applicable. Public-servant, teacher, military, national-pension, and no-pension profiles can therefore produce different deduction patterns.

The result stores yearly gross salary, net salary, tax, insurance, cumulative gross, and cumulative net. Top occupation by net lifetime income and maximum net gap come from those accumulated yearly rows.

Hourly income and pension option

The model also calculates average hourly net income from annual work hours. High lifetime income can look different after adjusting for long annual hours, which is why the English page displays the hourly income multiplier.

When pension inclusion is enabled, the source estimates annual pension and total net income including pension to the selected pension end age. The English control toggles that same branch without replacing it with a manual retirement assumption.

Use limits

Occupation income varies by school, region, company, license, specialty, overtime, leave, career interruption, and promotion speed. The simulator should be treated as a structured comparison of Korean model assumptions rather than a salary guarantee.

For personal planning, use actual offers, pension records, tax filings, and work-hour expectations. The value of this page is that English and Korean users now see the same underlying lifetime-income model.