About Calqly
Precision calculators for remote workers, migrants, digital nomads, and global teams. Every number explained. Every assumption visible.
Most online calculators are black boxes. You enter a number, you get a number, and you have no idea what happened in between. We think that's unacceptable when the output affects real decisions: how much salary to negotiate, whether to accept a remote job, how much money your family receives during leave, or whether you can afford to send money home.
Calqly was built on one principle: every calculation must be inspectable. We show our data sources, our formulas, our confidence intervals, and our limitations. If we don't know something, we say so. If a number is an estimate, we label it as such. If a policy changed last month, we update it.
We are not a consulting firm. We are not a government agency. We are engineers, economists, and policy researchers who got tired of bad calculators and decided to build better ones.
Calqly calculators fall into five categories, each solving a specific problem for people who work across borders.
| Category | Problem | Example | Data Sources |
|---|---|---|---|
| Global Finance | What does it cost to send money home? | Remittance Cost Comparator | World Bank RPW, provider APIs |
| Work & Salary | What should I get paid abroad? | PPP Salary Converter | OECD PPP, ICP, IMF |
| Tax & Compliance | What do I owe as a digital nomad? | Digital Nomad Tax | OECD, tax treaties, IRS/HMRC |
| Time & Scheduling | When can my team meet fairly? | Time Zone Meeting Planner | IANA tz database |
| Climate | What's the carbon cost of my electricity? | Carbon Footprint by Grid | IEA, NREL, EMBER |
Calqly is maintained by a distributed team across six time zones. No office. No investors. Bootstrapped and sustained through API subscriptions and premium features. Disciplines on the team include data engineering, policy research, software engineering, UX design, and community support.
We do not publish individual names — the work speaks for itself, and we want to avoid personal brand dilution of the project.
Calqly is free to use. We earn revenue in ways that preserve our independence: API subscriptions for developers and fintechs, premium features for power users, and occasional sponsored research from NGOs and think tanks (sponsors have no editorial control).
What we don't do: no affiliate links, no paywalls on core results, no selling user data, no venture capital.
Have a calculator idea? Found a data error? Want to integrate our API? We'd love to hear from you.