Updates and fixes

This website gets better every day. Newest first.

• 10/30/26: Upload your W-2s and the calculator reads your earnings, LODI pay and one-time bonuses straight from them.
• 10/30/26: Fixed: Box 5 on your W-2 and ESS leaves out LODI pay, which counts toward your pension, and includes the COVID healthcare worker bonus, which doesn't. You can now add LODI back and take the bonus out.
• 10/30/26: Fixed: your date of birth and appointment date now stay saved when you close the site and come back.
• 10/28/26: Equated dates, for bought-back military, prior EMS or a retroactive hire date.
• 10/12/26: Fixed: Tier 2 final average salary now uses the higher of your last 12 months or your best 3 years, with the 20% limit on both (Chapter 540 of 2021).
• 10/12/26: A “Don’t forget about taxes” box under your estimate, with a federal ballpark and the states that don’t tax your pension.
• 10/12/26: Tier 2: boxes for your taxable and non-taxable excess contributions, as ESS shows them.
• 10/12/26: Bills in Albany now covers S5058A (an extra 1/40th for each year past 20) and has a Tier 2 version.
• 10/12/26: Pension basics explains the “death gamble” for Tier 2 and Tier 3.