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  "dataset": "Take-Home Almanac — observed calculator usage",
  "description": "Anonymous aggregate counts of pay calculations performed on takehomealmanac.com.",
  "license": "CC BY-NC-SA 4.0",
  "licenseUrl": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/",
  "commercialUse": "Requires a licence — https://takehomealmanac.com/data#licensing",
  "citation": "Take-Home Almanac, \"Observed calculator usage\". https://takehomealmanac.com/data/usage.json",
  "generatedAt": "2026-09-25T14:17:45.090Z",
  "collectingSince": "2026-08-14 03:24:15 UTC",
  "schemaVersion": 11,
  "taxYear": 2026,
  "readWarning": null,
  "methodology": {
    "whatIsCounted": "One row per completed CALCULATION, not per page view. A visitor who reads a page and never enters a salary contributes nothing. Comparing these totals to any page-analytics product will show far fewer events here, and that gap is a finding rather than a defect.",
    "whoIsSampled": "People who went looking for a US take-home pay calculator. This is NOT a random sample of American workers: it over-represents people weighing an offer, checking a raise, or considering a move, and under-represents anyone content with their pay.",
    "income": "Exact salaries are never transmitted. Income exists only as one of eight ranges, bucketed in the browser before anything is sent, so no exact figure exists server-side to leak or disclose.",
    "geography": "Derived from the request edge at city level and no finer. No IP address, no street-level location, no persistent identifier, no cookie.",
    "localHour": "The hour on the visitor's OWN clock, 0-23, so it says when Americans check their pay rather than when our servers were busy.",
    "state": "The state whose tax was CALCULATED — a deliberate choice by the visitor — which is a different and more reliable signal than where they were sitting.",
    "ownerTraffic": "Development and testing traffic is excluded by a collection epoch and by a per-browser opt-out.",
    "suppression": "Categories under 5 calculations are withheld; cities need 20, because a small town with a handful of events is a re-identification risk rather than a thin cell. Withheld totals are reported so you can see what is missing."
  },
  "totals": {
    "calculations": 40
  },
  "breakdowns": {
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      "values": {
        "TX": 18,
        "CA": 11
      },
      "withheldCategories": 6,
      "withheldCount": 11
    },
    "incomeBracket": {
      "values": {
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        "55-75k": 15
      },
      "withheldCategories": 3,
      "withheldCount": 9,
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        "25-40k",
        "40-55k",
        "55-75k",
        "75-100k",
        "100-150k",
        "150-250k",
        "250k-plus"
      ]
    },
    "filingStatus": {
      "values": {
        "single": 33
      },
      "withheldCategories": 3,
      "withheldCount": 7
    },
    "calculatorUsed": {
      "values": {
        "annual": 37
      },
      "withheldCategories": 2,
      "withheldCount": 3
    },
    "device": {
      "values": {
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        "mobile": 13
      },
      "withheldCategories": 0,
      "withheldCount": 0
    },
    "interfaceLanguage": {
      "values": {
        "zh": 26,
        "en": 10
      },
      "withheldCategories": 1,
      "withheldCount": 4
    },
    "acquisitionSource": {
      "values": {
        "cn.bing.com": 16,
        "bing.com": 14,
        "direct": 8
      },
      "withheldCategories": 1,
      "withheldCount": 2
    },
    "city": {
      "values": {},
      "withheldCategories": 9,
      "withheldCount": 40
    },
    "dayOfWeek": {
      "values": {
        "Wednesday": 15,
        "Friday": 18
      },
      "withheldCategories": 2,
      "withheldCount": 2
    },
    "hourOfDayLocal": {
      "values": {
        "10": 16,
        "21": 11
      },
      "withheldCategories": 3,
      "withheldCount": 8
    }
  },
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      "AL": "Alabama",
      "AK": "Alaska",
      "AZ": "Arizona",
      "AR": "Arkansas",
      "CA": "California",
      "CO": "Colorado",
      "CT": "Connecticut",
      "DE": "Delaware",
      "DC": "District of Columbia",
      "FL": "Florida",
      "GA": "Georgia",
      "HI": "Hawaii",
      "ID": "Idaho",
      "IL": "Illinois",
      "IN": "Indiana",
      "IA": "Iowa",
      "KS": "Kansas",
      "KY": "Kentucky",
      "LA": "Louisiana",
      "ME": "Maine",
      "MD": "Maryland",
      "MA": "Massachusetts",
      "MI": "Michigan",
      "MN": "Minnesota",
      "MS": "Mississippi",
      "MO": "Missouri",
      "MT": "Montana",
      "NE": "Nebraska",
      "NV": "Nevada",
      "NH": "New Hampshire",
      "NJ": "New Jersey",
      "NM": "New Mexico",
      "NY": "New York",
      "NC": "North Carolina",
      "ND": "North Dakota",
      "OH": "Ohio",
      "OK": "Oklahoma",
      "OR": "Oregon",
      "PA": "Pennsylvania",
      "RI": "Rhode Island",
      "SC": "South Carolina",
      "SD": "South Dakota",
      "TN": "Tennessee",
      "TX": "Texas",
      "UT": "Utah",
      "VT": "Vermont",
      "VA": "Virginia",
      "WA": "Washington",
      "WV": "West Virginia",
      "WI": "Wisconsin",
      "WY": "Wyoming"
    },
    "contact": "https://takehomealmanac.com/contact"
  }
}