Welcome to the free seafarer salary and wage progression calculator by SeaArchive. In the merchant navy, contracts often extend for multi-month periods and sometimes include complex increment structures. Knowing exactly what your aggregate take-home pay will be at the end of a long contract is crucial for financial planning, mortgages, and family support.
This tool allows you to project your earnings over the exact duration of your contract. By entering your base monthly salary and your expected months at sea, we can immediately calculate your total projected earnings and your average daily wage rate.
For those on progressive contracts, we've included an advanced increment calculator. You can model your future earnings by specifying an increment amount and how often that increment is applied (e.g., a $100 bump every 6 months). Unverified financial guesswork can lead to poor planning, so let this tool do the math for you. Create a free account to permanently save your financial projections into your secure SeaArchive dashboard.
Enter your starting salary and contract duration.
Model seniority raises during long contracts
Your estimated total earnings
No. This tool calculates gross estimated earnings over the duration of a contract based on your standing wage agreement. Personal deductions, onboard purchases (Slop Chest), or cash advances are not factored into this total projection.
If you enable Advanced Increments, the calculator will apply your specified raise to your base salary exactly at the frequency intervals you specify. For example, a $100 yearly increment on a 24-month contract means months 1-12 earn base pay, and months 13-24 earn base + $100.
By signing up for a free SeaArchive account and saving this projection, you unlock our fully featured Finance Tracker within the secure dashboard. You will be able to map actual received payments against this projection to ensure you are fully compensated by your employer.
Looking for other tools? Check out the Sea Service Calculator, Contract End Checker, and Certificate Expiry Checker.