About

CareerROI exists because most career advice is either marketing or vibes. Bootcamp websites publish 90%+ placement rates. Universities publish "starting salary" averages that conveniently exclude the unemployed grads. Influencers say "follow your passion" and then sell you a $2,000 course.

We do the boring thing instead: spreadsheets. Every calculator on this site uses the same approach — total cost (including the wages you'd have earned), divided by the realistic salary lift, gives you a payback period. Then we project lifetime gain.

How we make money

Some links to bootcamps and cert prep programs are affiliate links. We get a small kickback if you enroll. This never affects whether a program shows up in our calculators or how we review it. The math is the math. If a program we get paid for has bad ROI, we say so. See our affiliate disclosure.

Who runs this

James J. Tokarski — a former Senior Sales Executive who got tired of the bait-and-switch: promotions that never materialized, career moves that didn't deliver what was promised, and "the math" that fell apart the moment you actually ran it. After one too many decisions sold on a story instead of a spreadsheet, CareerROI.net was born — to put the numbers on the table before anyone signs up for the next big move.