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100+ Tools to Valuate Virtually Everything in Your Life

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If you’re an accountant, or just money–or numbers–minded, you probably can’t help but calculate virtually everything in your life, from how much tip you owe to profit percentages your phone company is getting from you. Whether you consider it a gift or a curse, we’ve found even more tools to make calculating anything and everything even easier.

Land, Homes and Vehicles
Figure out how much your home, car and land is worth with these tools.
  1. Home Value Estimation: Coldwell Banker’s online tool lets you watch the market, get an estimate based on recent home sales or get a personalized estimate from a sales associate.
  2. Zillow: On this stie, you can check your home value, browse homes for sale and more.
  3. Get My Homes Value: Here you can get a rough estimate of your home’s value based on square feet, zip code and more.
  4. House Values: House Values is a free home value estimator that generates an amount based on zip code, number of rooms, parking options, lot size and other factors.
  5. HomeGain: Search an address or browse recent searches to compare your home’s value to others in the area.
  6. Kelly Blue Book: Use KBB’s tools to estimate the value of new and used cars.
  7. AutoTrader: AutoTrader helps you figure out the value of your used car here.
  8. Edmunds Used Car Appraiser: Click on a vehicle’s make to get started on your appraisal.
  9. What’s Your Land Worth?: Use this tool to get a free land appraisal report.
  10. How to Price Your Home: Learn how to accurately decide on an asking price that reflects your home’s true value.
  11. HomeInsight: This site’s property value and home price check tool follows updated local market conditions to give you an estimate.
  12. How much is your garden worth?: Discover how you can cash in on your garden and yard when selling a house.
  13. How much is your used car worth: Here you’ll learn how to figure out a rough estimate of your car’s value.
Jewelry
Find out if it’s worth it to pawn off your jewelry with these tools.
  1. Online Jewelry Appraisals: Get an appraisal of your jewelry online for free.
  2. Valuing your gold: Learn about the purity of your gold to figure out its worth.
  3. Gold Market Knowledge: The World Gold Council’s Market Knowledge page has tools and tips for estimating the value of your gold.
Currency and Finance
Play around with currency rates and exchanges with these tools.
  1. XE Universal Currency Converter: This popular currency converter has 85 currencies in its database.
  2. X-rates: Convert currencies like USD, Bulgarian lev, Pakistan rupee and others here.
  3. FXConverter: Here you can compare the value of 164 currencies.
  4. Bloomberg Currency Calculator: Bloomberg’s tool can convert over 200 currencies.
  5. Market Watch major currencies: Track the health of major world currencies here.
  6. Market Monitor: Track stocks and funds here.
Savings and Net Worth
Figure out your net worth here.
  1. Emergency Savings Calc: Find out how your savings will help you when you use this tool.
  2. What are you worth?: CNN’s net worth calculator takes into account your debt and assets to estimate your value.
  3. What’s your net worth?: Use Kiplinger’s net worth calculator to evaluate your cash savings, deposits, money-market funds and more.
  4. Savings Calculator: Estimate your savings over time with this calculator.
Your Blog
Find out how much your blog is worth with these tools.
  1. How much is your blog worth: Use this applet to figure out your blog’s worth.
  2. Alexa: Alexa helps you understand your website traffic compared to similar sites.
  3. AttentionMeter: Find out your blog rank, number of unique visitors and more using this tool.
  4. dnScoop: dnScoop is a "domain and site value tool" that can help you build up your blog or site.
  5. Website Outlook: This free tool will help you sell or buy websites.
  6. Blog Juice Calculator: This calculator is "100% pulp," whatever that means. But you can quickly find traffic information about your blog by entering the domain and its related category.
Web Presence
Discover how your mere presence on sites like Twitter add up.
  1. Twitterholic: Find out how your Twitter rank compares to Barack Obama, CNN Breaking News, and other top users.
  2. Twitterrank: Look up your Twitter rank here.
  3. Google Alerts: Use this tool to find out how often you, your products or your sites are being mentioned online.
Price Estimates
Use these tools to get price estimates and compare value.
  1. Building Construction Home Cost Estimator Tool: Find out how much it will cost to build or renovate your home here.
  2. RepairPal: Use this tool to estimate the price of your next tune up.
  3. AAA Fuel Cost Calculator: AAA helps you calculate the cost of gas for your road trip here.
  4. PriceGrabber: Here you can compare prices and find out the value of everything from electronics to books to clothes to furniture.
  5. Calculate the sale price: Find out the new price of reduced items here.
  6. Power usage calculator: Estimate how much power you use each day by ranking the usage of your refrigerator, microwave, washing machine and more.
  7. Gohealth Insurance: Find plans and estimate your health insurance coverage costs here.
  8. Gasbuddy: This tool is another helpful place to find cheap gas along your road trip.
  9. Health Insurance Rates: Here you can compare health insurance costs at popular agencies.
  10. Bizrate: Here you can evaluate prices of different clothing, jewelry, sports and electronics items before shopping.
Antiques and Heirlooms
Calculate the worth of your antiques with these resources.
  1. Antiques Roadshow resources: This show’s website has resources to help you estimate the value of your antiques.
  2. Xlibris Book Price Calculator: Find out how much your old and rare books are worth here.
  3. Worth Point: Worth Point has lots of resources for those who want to sell antiques, jewelry, furniture and more.
  4. Appraisal Day: Paul Royka, who has appeared on Fox News, Antiques Roadshow and HGTV will evaluate your old paintings for free on this site.
  5. International Society of Appraisers Forum: Quickly share and find information about appraising and price points for your antiques here.
  6. Country Living Appraisals: Here you can get items like art, china, furniture, holiday decor, pottery and textiles appraised.
Education, Salary and Work Experience
Valuate your education and work experience here.
  1. How Much is Your Education Worth: Get long-term salary information for different education levels here.
  2. Loan Debt vs. Earning Power: Here you can figure out how much debt you can afford to accrue.
  3. Personal Salary Report: Find out how much you’re worth based on your industry and education here.
  4. What are you worth?: Discover your estimated salary based on zip code and industry.
  5. PayScale: With this tool, you can compare your salaries to others in the business.
  6. Benefits: Learn about the benefits that you should be getting here.
Cost of Living
For relocation purposes or just for fun, let these tools help you determine cost of living differences.
  1. Cost of Living Wizard: Find out how your salary can be stretched in different parts of the country here.
  2. Cost of living calculator: CNN’s calculator evalutes salary, current location and destination city.
  3. Cost of living comparison calculator: Find out how much you could be earning in a different city here.
Skills
Find out how much your skills can be worth with these tools.
  1. Career Planning: Learn how seemingly unrelated skills can add to your qualifications as transferable skills.
  2. How much am I worth, getting a better salary: Here you’ll find tools for negotiating salary, understanding salary requirements, and evaluating your skills.
  3. Sell Your Skills Overseas: This resource shows you how to identify your skills and make them work for you in interesting careers.
Taxes
For tax help, refund information and more, turn to this list.
  1. Turbo Tax Estimator: Find out if you’ll get a refund based on new salary, job, house and car information.
  2. Federal Tax Estimator: 1040.com’s estimator helps you find the right forms and preview your return.
  3. H&R Block Calculators: Here you can find a tax estimator, withholding calculator, self-employment estimator and more.
  4. IRS Withholding calculator: The IRS’ official calculator will give you an estimate on taxes withheld from pay.
  5. Changing jobs: Kiplinger and Turbo Tax help you understand how changing jobs affects your tax forms.
  6. Easy-To-Use Tax Withholding Calculator: Use this calculator to find out how much you need to take out for taxes.
  7. 10 Tax Deductions Freelancers Can Make: From coffee shop meetings to unpaid invoices to cell phone service, these deductions can lower your tax payments.
  8. Guide to Estimated Taxes: Learn about voluntary payments, withholding, and more.
  9. Tax calculators: Find payroll deductions calculators, net to gross paycheck calculators and more.
  10. Paycheck calculators: Calculate taxes, bonuses, 401(k) information and more.
Investments
Calculate stock profits and other investments here.
  1. Investment Returns Calculator: Find out how the economy, the length of your investment and other factors affect your investment here.
  2. Loan calculator and amortization: Calculate your loan, interest rate and more with this tool.
  3. Stock Option Calculator: Submit information about current stock prices, number of options, length of investment and more.
  4. Yahoo! Finance Market Stats: Track stocks and more right here.
  5. MSNBC Stock Tracker: Get quotes and follow your stocks with this tool.
  6. Can you really afford your next big expenditure?: Inc.’s worksheet tells you the "sales increase needed to keep the same gross profit margin" after making an investment.
Loans
Calculate debt, loan payments and more with these tools.
  1. FinAid Loan Calculator: Calculate student loans here.
  2. Mortgage Calc: Calculate how much you can borrow or spend here.
  3. FSA Interactive loan calculators: FSA’s calculators help you manage repayment and debt.
  4. USA Today Calculators: Use these tools to figure out credit card debt and loans, auto loans and more.
Business
Figure out how much your employees are worth, how to acquire capital, and more.
  1. Compensation Market Data: Learn how much to pay your employees based on market data here.
  2. Single Job Report: With this tool, you can get a job valuation report that explains how much you’ll need to pay in salary, benefits, bonuses and more.
  3. BLS Career Guide to Industries: Use the Bureau of Labor Statistics’ database of jobs and industries to figure out average salaries and education requirements.
  4. How to valuate your business: This article gives examples of how to take into consideration taxes, net earnings and more to estimate your profit and expenses.
  5. How much is your time worth: Here you can get tips on figuring out how much to charge for your time.
  6. Stock Market Tracker: This little Google gadget tracks only the stocks that affect your business and investments.
  7. Bank Loan Application and Review Forms: Review these sample forms to figure out how to apply for a small business loan.
  8. How to track progress and profit on projects: Inc.’s financial worksheets help you track your profits.
  9. Are your franchise expenses in line?: By submitting your annual revenue, annual expenses, and franchisee annual revenue and expenses, you’ll better undersand the finances of your franchises.
  10. HR Salary Wizard: Small business owners can figure out how much to pay employees here.
Miscellaneous
Find out how much your iPhone, your handmade goods, and even yourself are worth.
  1. How much is your old iPhone worth?: If you’re thinking about selling your iPhone, learn how to estimate its price here.
  2. Human for Sale: This website uses qualifiers like athletic ability and education level to figure out how much you’re worth on the market.
  3. WhatsItWorthToYou.com: Get appraisals on cars, antiques and more for just $9.95 here.
  4. WhatTheCraft.com: This worksheet helps you price your handmade goods.
  5. How to figure out how much to charge as a freelancer: This guide gives tips on pricing your services.
  6. Savings Bond Calculator: Understand the current and future worth of your bond.
  7. Calculating Price per Ounce: Learn how to calculate the price per ounce of food here.
  8. Closing Costs: Learn how to estimate the closing costs yourself before getting in too deep.
  9. 8 Steps to Follow When Estimating Legal Fees: Estimate your legal fees with this resource.
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If you’re an accountant, or just money–or numbers–minded, you probably can’t help but calculate virtually everything in your life, from how much tip you owe to profit percentages your phone company is getting from you. Whether you consider it a gift or a curse, we’ve found even more tools to make calculating anything and everything even easier.

Land, Homes and Vehicles
Figure out how much your home, car and land is worth with these tools.
  1. Home Value Estimation: Coldwell Banker’s online tool lets you watch the market, get an estimate based on recent home sales or get a personalized estimate from a sales associate.
  2. Zillow: On this stie, you can check your home value, browse homes for sale and more.
  3. Get My Homes Value: Here you can get a rough estimate of your home’s value based on square feet, zip code and more.
  4. House Values: House Values is a free home value estimator that generates an amount based on zip code, number of rooms, parking options, lot size and other factors.
  5. HomeGain: Search an address or browse recent searches to compare your home’s value to others in the area.
  6. Kelly Blue Book: Use KBB’s tools to estimate the value of new and used cars.
  7. AutoTrader: AutoTrader helps you figure out the value of your used car here.
  8. Edmunds Used Car Appraiser: Click on a vehicle’s make to get started on your appraisal.
  9. What’s Your Land Worth?: Use this tool to get a free land appraisal report.
  10. How to Price Your Home: Learn how to accurately decide on an asking price that reflects your home’s true value.
  11. HomeInsight: This site’s property value and home price check tool follows updated local market conditions to give you an estimate.
  12. How much is your garden worth?: Discover how you can cash in on your garden and yard when selling a house.
  13. How much is your used car worth: Here you’ll learn how to figure out a rough estimate of your car’s value.
Jewelry
Find out if it’s worth it to pawn off your jewelry with these tools.
  1. Online Jewelry Appraisals: Get an appraisal of your jewelry online for free.
  2. Valuing your gold: Learn about the purity of your gold to figure out its worth.
  3. Gold Market Knowledge: The World Gold Council’s Market Knowledge page has tools and tips for estimating the value of your gold.
Currency and Finance
Play around with currency rates and exchanges with these tools.
  1. XE Universal Currency Converter: This popular currency converter has 85 currencies in its database.
  2. X-rates: Convert currencies like USD, Bulgarian lev, Pakistan rupee and others here.
  3. FXConverter: Here you can compare the value of 164 currencies.
  4. Bloomberg Currency Calculator: Bloomberg’s tool can convert over 200 currencies.
  5. Market Watch major currencies: Track the health of major world currencies here.
  6. Market Monitor: Track stocks and funds here.
Savings and Net Worth
Figure out your net worth here.
  1. Emergency Savings Calc: Find out how your savings will help you when you use this tool.
  2. What are you worth?: CNN’s net worth calculator takes into account your debt and assets to estimate your value.
  3. What’s your net worth?: Use Kiplinger’s net worth calculator to evaluate your cash savings, deposits, money-market funds and more.
  4. Savings Calculator: Estimate your savings over time with this calculator.
Your Blog
Find out how much your blog is worth with these tools.
  1. How much is your blog worth: Use this applet to figure out your blog’s worth.
  2. Alexa: Alexa helps you understand your website traffic compared to similar sites.
  3. AttentionMeter: Find out your blog rank, number of unique visitors and more using this tool.
  4. dnScoop: dnScoop is a "domain and site value tool" that can help you build up your blog or site.
  5. Website Outlook: This free tool will help you sell or buy websites.
  6. Blog Juice Calculator: This calculator is "100% pulp," whatever that means. But you can quickly find traffic information about your blog by entering the domain and its related category.
Web Presence
Discover how your mere presence on sites like Twitter add up.
  1. Twitterholic: Find out how your Twitter rank compares to Barack Obama, CNN Breaking News, and other top users.
  2. Twitterrank: Look up your Twitter rank here.
  3. Google Alerts: Use this tool to find out how often you, your products or your sites are being mentioned online.
Price Estimates
Use these tools to get price estimates and compare value.
  1. Building Construction Home Cost Estimator Tool: Find out how much it will cost to build or renovate your home here.
  2. RepairPal: Use this tool to estimate the price of your next tune up.
  3. AAA Fuel Cost Calculator: AAA helps you calculate the cost of gas for your road trip here.
  4. PriceGrabber: Here you can compare prices and find out the value of everything from electronics to books to clothes to furniture.
  5. Calculate the sale price: Find out the new price of reduced items here.
  6. Power usage calculator: Estimate how much power you use each day by ranking the usage of your refrigerator, microwave, washing machine and more.
  7. Gohealth Insurance: Find plans and estimate your health insurance coverage costs here.
  8. Gasbuddy: This tool is another helpful place to find cheap gas along your road trip.
  9. Health Insurance Rates: Here you can compare health insurance costs at popular agencies.
  10. Bizrate: Here you can evaluate prices of different clothing, jewelry, sports and electronics items before shopping.
Antiques and Heirlooms
Calculate the worth of your antiques with these resources.
  1. Antiques Roadshow resources: This show’s website has resources to help you estimate the value of your antiques.
  2. Xlibris Book Price Calculator: Find out how much your old and rare books are worth here.
  3. Worth Point: Worth Point has lots of resources for those who want to sell antiques, jewelry, furniture and more.
  4. Appraisal Day: Paul Royka, who has appeared on Fox News, Antiques Roadshow and HGTV will evaluate your old paintings for free on this site.
  5. International Society of Appraisers Forum: Quickly share and find information about appraising and price points for your antiques here.
  6. Country Living Appraisals: Here you can get items like art, china, furniture, holiday decor, pottery and textiles appraised.
Education, Salary and Work Experience
Valuate your education and work experience here.
  1. How Much is Your Education Worth: Get long-term salary information for different education levels here.
  2. Loan Debt vs. Earning Power: Here you can figure out how much debt you can afford to accrue.
  3. Personal Salary Report: Find out how much you’re worth based on your industry and education here.
  4. What are you worth?: Discover your estimated salary based on zip code and industry.
  5. PayScale: With this tool, you can compare your salaries to others in the business.
  6. Benefits: Learn about the benefits that you should be getting here.
Cost of Living
For relocation purposes or just for fun, let these tools help you determine cost of living differences.
  1. Cost of Living Wizard: Find out how your salary can be stretched in different parts of the country here.
  2. Cost of living calculator: CNN’s calculator evalutes salary, current location and destination city.
  3. Cost of living comparison calculator: Find out how much you could be earning in a different city here.
Skills
Find out how much your skills can be worth with these tools.
  1. Career Planning: Learn how seemingly unrelated skills can add to your qualifications as transferable skills.
  2. How much am I worth, getting a better salary: Here you’ll find tools for negotiating salary, understanding salary requirements, and evaluating your skills.
  3. Sell Your Skills Overseas: This resource shows you how to identify your skills and make them work for you in interesting careers.
Taxes
For tax help, refund information and more, turn to this list.
  1. Turbo Tax Estimator: Find out if you’ll get a refund based on new salary, job, house and car information.
  2. Federal Tax Estimator: 1040.com’s estimator helps you find the right forms and preview your return.
  3. H&R Block Calculators: Here you can find a tax estimator, withholding calculator, self-employment estimator and more.
  4. IRS Withholding calculator: The IRS’ official calculator will give you an estimate on taxes withheld from pay.
  5. Changing jobs: Kiplinger and Turbo Tax help you understand how changing jobs affects your tax forms.
  6. Easy-To-Use Tax Withholding Calculator: Use this calculator to find out how much you need to take out for taxes.
  7. 10 Tax Deductions Freelancers Can Make: From coffee shop meetings to unpaid invoices to cell phone service, these deductions can lower your tax payments.
  8. Guide to Estimated Taxes: Learn about voluntary payments, withholding, and more.
  9. Tax calculators: Find payroll deductions calculators, net to gross paycheck calculators and more.
  10. Paycheck calculators: Calculate taxes, bonuses, 401(k) information and more.
Investments
Calculate stock profits and other investments here.
  1. Investment Returns Calculator: Find out how the economy, the length of your investment and other factors affect your investment here.
  2. Loan calculator and amortization: Calculate your loan, interest rate and more with this tool.
  3. Stock Option Calculator: Submit information about current stock prices, number of options, length of investment and more.
  4. Yahoo! Finance Market Stats: Track stocks and more right here.
  5. MSNBC Stock Tracker: Get quotes and follow your stocks with this tool.
  6. Can you really afford your next big expenditure?: Inc.’s worksheet tells you the "sales increase needed to keep the same gross profit margin" after making an investment.
Loans
Calculate debt, loan payments and more with these tools.
  1. FinAid Loan Calculator: Calculate student loans here.
  2. Mortgage Calc: Calculate how much you can borrow or spend here.
  3. FSA Interactive loan calculators: FSA’s calculators help you manage repayment and debt.
  4. USA Today Calculators: Use these tools to figure out credit card debt and loans, auto loans and more.
Business
Figure out how much your employees are worth, how to acquire capital, and more.
  1. Compensation Market Data: Learn how much to pay your employees based on market data here.
  2. Single Job Report: With this tool, you can get a job valuation report that explains how much you’ll need to pay in salary, benefits, bonuses and more.
  3. BLS Career Guide to Industries: Use the Bureau of Labor Statistics’ database of jobs and industries to figure out average salaries and education requirements.
  4. How to valuate your business: This article gives examples of how to take into consideration taxes, net earnings and more to estimate your profit and expenses.
  5. How much is your time worth: Here you can get tips on figuring out how much to charge for your time.
  6. Stock Market Tracker: This little Google gadget tracks only the stocks that affect your business and investments.
  7. Bank Loan Application and Review Forms: Review these sample forms to figure out how to apply for a small business loan.
  8. How to track progress and profit on projects: Inc.’s financial worksheets help you track your profits.
  9. Are your franchise expenses in line?: By submitting your annual revenue, annual expenses, and franchisee annual revenue and expenses, you’ll better undersand the finances of your franchises.
  10. HR Salary Wizard: Small business owners can figure out how much to pay employees here.
Miscellaneous
Find out how much your iPhone, your handmade goods, and even yourself are worth.
  1. How much is your old iPhone worth?: If you’re thinking about selling your iPhone, learn how to estimate its price here.
  2. Human for Sale: This website uses qualifiers like athletic ability and education level to figure out how much you’re worth on the market.
  3. WhatsItWorthToYou.com: Get appraisals on cars, antiques and more for just $9.95 here.
  4. WhatTheCraft.com: This worksheet helps you price your handmade goods.
  5. How to figure out how much to charge as a freelancer: This guide gives tips on pricing your services.
  6. Savings Bond Calculator: Understand the current and future worth of your bond.
  7. Calculating Price per Ounce: Learn how to calculate the price per ounce of food here.
  8. Closing Costs: Learn how to estimate the closing costs yourself before getting in too deep.
  9. 8 Steps to Follow When Estimating Legal Fees: Estimate your legal fees with this resource.