It is a realistic planning estimate, not a guarantee. It is built from common, real-world ranges for cost, timeline, and starting salary for a transition like yours, but your actual experience will depend on your specific background, local market, and how you approach the search.
Yes. The calculator is completely free, with no login required and no limit beyond a daily fair use cap.
SmartRolePath does not save what you enter to its database or write it to its logs. Your entries are sent to Claude, Anthropic's AI model, to generate the estimate. We keep only an anonymous daily usage count, and your IP address is held temporarily in memory to enforce the daily limit.
The discovery quiz is for people who are not sure what career to pursue. This calculator is for people who already have a specific target career in mind and want to know what switching to it would cost and how long it would take.