About Calcledge

Calcledge is edited by one person. That person checks each citation and the arithmetic before a figure is allowed onto a page. The legal name and a short background belong in the box above. Until that box is replaced, treat the byline as unpublished. The site is not a firm, a newsroom, or a government office.

The editor started the site after reading severance letters and solar quotes that fold several different payments into one total. A release, a notice period, and a bonus can sit in the same paragraph. A roof, a tax credit, and a loan can sit in the same monthly payment. The calculators pull those lines apart. The guides say what the lines leave out. Both tools are free, and neither one asks for an account.

Two calculators are published. The severance calculator turns salary, years of service, and weeks of pay per year into gross severance, and it keeps notice and a bonus on separate lines. The solar calculator turns electricity use, a production factor, a cost per watt, and an incentive percent into system size, cash price, savings, and payback. You type the market numbers yourself. A default in the form is a worked example, and the label says so when it is not a sourced benchmark.

A legal rule, a tax rate, an incentive, or a benchmark is stored with a source title, a source URL, a source date, and the date that citation was last confirmed. Only an entry marked verified is rendered on a public page, in structured data, or in the sitemap. An unverified entry has no value. The state menu on the solar calculator stays off until a state rate, incentive, or production factor has a citation. The method page lists every formula and every verified source.

Each sourced figure is checked at least twice a year, and sooner when the cited statute, regulation, or IRS publication changes. The date on an entry is the day that citation was last confirmed for this site. A correction from a reader is checked against the same source before the page changes. If the source no longer says what the page says, the figure comes down.

Calcledge does not give legal advice, tax advice, or an engineering design. It does not tell you to sign a release or to buy panels. It does not collect calculator inputs into a database, and it does not run an analytics product. Submitting a calculator puts the inputs in the page address so you can bookmark a run. The contact form sends an email. Django may set a CSRF cookie so that form can be submitted safely. That cookie is not an advertising profile. Read the disclaimer before you rely on a figure, and use the contact page if a cited line is out of date.