raise-vs-jump

raise-vs-jump is a cursor rule for Cursor from mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills. It costs 100 tokens per session (1,116 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A comparison of staying in a job for raises versus changing jobs for larger salary increases. It calculates salary and total earnings over time while noting factors such as equity vesting, promotions, and job-search risk.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to compare staying and switching jobs, find the year when cumulative earnings cross over, and review important non-salary trade-offs.
Why use it?
A higher offer may not lead to higher overall value if changing jobs resets stock vesting, gives up a near promotion, or creates time and career costs. This compares the long-term paths instead of just the next salary.

Cursor rule for Cursor

Written for Cursor: a Cursor rule (.mdc).

Needs its repository: it runs a file that does not travel with it, so clone the repository first. The line is python3 scripts/raise_vs_jump.py --salary 120000.

Good fit Use it to compare staying and switching jobs, find the year when cumulative earnings cross over, and review important non-salary trade-offs.

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About the project

PM Skills is a collection of plain-Markdown instructions that teach AI assistants structured methods for handling professional, personal, and life-admin tasks. People use it with Claude, ChatGPT, Gemini, Cursor, Codex, and other supported agents for work such as writing product requirements, reviewing documents, or planning difficult situations.

mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills · 1,352 stars · on GitHub · mohitagw15856.github.io

Install

Getting it into your agent

It runs from inside its repository, so the clone comes first — what it calls does not travel with the file alone.

Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills
agentmods
npx agentmods add rules/mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills/raise-vs-jump

Made for: Cursor.

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Per session 100 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 1,116 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5.1 $0.00100 $0.01116
Opus 5 $0.00050 $0.00558
Sonnet 5 $0.00020 $0.00223
Haiku 4.5 $0.00010 $0.00112

Measured 7d ago against content hash 4598665c3104, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

raise-vs-jump scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 7d ago.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Nothing flagged

None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.

exports/cursor/pm-calculators/raise-vs-jump/raise-vs-jump.mdc · 84 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 84 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Raise vs Jump Skill

"Job hoppers earn more" is true on salary and incomplete on everything else: equity that vests on a cliff you keep resetting, the promotion you were two quarters from, the months of search time, the reputation cost of a short-stint résumé. This skill runs the salary math properly — trajectories, not single offers — and then insists on the checklist of what the salary math can't see, because that checklist decides more of these choices than the compounding does.

What This Skill Produces

  • The trajectory table — year-by-year salary and cumulative earnings for both paths
  • The crossover year — when cumulative jump-earnings pass cumulative stay-earnings
  • The gap at horizon — final salary gap and cumulative gap, on stated assumptions
  • The not-in-the-model checklist — scored for this user's actual situation

Required Inputs

Ask for these if not provided:

  • Current salary and realistic stay-raise % — their employer's actual recent raises, not the poster in the break room (default 3%, labeled)
  • Jump assumptions — bump per jump (default 15%), years between jumps (default 3), raises between jumps (default 2% — jumpers often land at the top of a band and stall)
  • The invisible items — unvested equity and its schedule, pension/tenure benefits, promotion proximity, how they'd handle a search

Programmatic Helper

python3 scripts/raise_vs_jump.py --salary 120000
python3 scripts/raise_vs_jump.py --salary 120000 --stay-raise 3.5 --jump-bump 18 --jump-every 3 --json

Deterministic. Models salary only — the script prints its own not-modeled list, and the skill's job is to make that list concrete for the user.

Framework: What the Salary Math Hides

  • Vesting resets are the jump tax — walking away from unvested equity and restarting a cliff is often worth more than the bump; compute it in dollars, not vibes
  • The stay path has step functions too — a promotion is a 10–20% event; if one is genuinely close (named role, named timeline — not a vague "soon"), model it as a stay-side jump
  • Raises between jumps sag — new hires land high in the band and then stall; that's the --jump-year-raise 2 default, and it's why the crossover is later than the first bump suggests
  • Search risk is asymmetric — a jump that takes 4 months of search or ends in a bad fit erases years of edge; weight it by how in-demand the user actually is
  • Three jumps is a pattern — recruiters read tenure; the strategy that maximizes 5-year earnings can shrink 15-year options

Read the full file on GitHub · 84 lines

Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

  1. 7d ago First seen · 84 lines · 100 tokens per session scan A 4598665c3104

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raise-vs-jump is a cursor rule published in the GitHub repository mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills (1,352 stars, last pushed 3d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 100 tokens to every session and 1,116 once invoked, about $0.0005 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-09-03.