🩺 Part Time Jobs with Health Insurance: Total Savings Estimator
Intro
When you transition from a W-2 job to becoming a business owner, figuring out health insurance is a massive hurdle. As Shelby puts it, a lot of people actually stick with jobs or at least stay part-time instead of completely taking off into entrepreneurship because of high healthcare prices. This tool helps you compare the true financial outcome of working a part-time job for subsidized benefits versus going full-time in your business and paying for private insurance out-of-pocket.
🏥 Insurance Costs
When you're an entrepreneur, you have to do your own due diligence to find health insurance. Individual open-market plans are often significantly more expensive than a subsidized plan through an employer's group network.
As Shelby notes, having to pay $245 a month versus having to pay out $50 or $60 bucks coming out of your paycheck actually sounds a little bit more expensive when you are doing it on your own. Enter your own quotes below to see the baseline difference.
💼 Opportunity Cost
Many entrepreneurs choose to work a W-2 job just for the benefits. As Superior Solutions notes, you're only working about 20 hours a week just so that way you don't have to pay that much in insurance.
However, you have to weigh that guaranteed W-2 income and cheaper insurance against the extra revenue your business could generate. You have to decide if you can continue having faith and knowing that your business is doing good enough for you to actually be able to afford your own health care insurance.
📊 Results
W-2 Monthly Net
Biz Monthly Net
Net Advantage
The Verdict
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