SALI
Satoshi Annual Labor Index

You got a raise. Bitcoin got bigger.
Find out who won.

Enter your salary and see it expressed in satoshis — Bitcoin's base unit. Track how your earning power compares to Bitcoin, year over year.

Calculate My SALI How It Works

Four assets. One clear divergence.

Every line starts at 100 in your selected start year. Bitcoin (orange) is the primary lens — the other three show how extraordinary its appreciation has been by comparison. Solid lines are real historical data; dashed lines are projections based on your inputs below.

Bitcoin (orange) · S&P 500 (blue) · Gold (yellow) · Real purchasing power / CPI (green). Anything below 100 means your salary buys less of that asset than it did in the start year.

SALI CalculatorSALI — Satoshi Annual Labor Index — measures your annual salary expressed in satoshis, showing how much Bitcoin your labor could acquire each year. It's an index, like CPI, but denominated in Bitcoin instead of a basket of goods.

SALI measures your salary in satoshis — Bitcoin's unit of account. It does not measure cost of living or inflation. It measures one thing: your labor's value in Bitcoin terms.

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Your SALI (Current Year)
— sats/year
BTC Equivalent
— BTC/year
Projected Change
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SALI Over Time

⎯ Historical - - Projected
Compare against:
Year Salary BTC Price SALI (sats)

* Projected BTC price based on growth rate assumption

Actual SALI History

Enter your actual starting point to reconstruct what your SALI really was each year — instead of projecting today's salary backwards.

Break-Even Salary Calculator

What annual raise would you need to accumulate Bitcoin at the same rate it appreciates — keeping your SALI flat?

Break-Even Annual Raise
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Equal to your BTC growth rate assumption — at break-even, your SALI stays flat
At break-even, your salary in 5 years
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At your projected growth, salary in 5 years
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Why Bitcoin Is the Right Benchmark

2015
22,058,823,529 sats/year
↓
2025 avg
59,030,716 sats/year
Bitcoin appreciated roughly 370× from 2015 to 2025 ($272 → $101,642 annual average). Measured in sats, the same $60,000 salary buys 99.7% fewer. That is Bitcoin's appreciation doing exactly what a fixed-supply asset is supposed to do — and it's the number that matters most if you're building a Bitcoin position.

Bitcoin has a fixed supply of 21 million coins. No central bank can issue more. That makes it the hardest unit of account available — and the most demanding benchmark for your labor. SALI uses it by design, not by accident.

You could measure your salary in gold or the S&P 500. SALI includes those comparisons so you can see the divergence clearly. Gold and stocks have appreciated. Bitcoin has appreciated more — by orders of magnitude. The chart above exists to show that contrast, not to suggest the benchmarks are interchangeable.

SALI is measurement, not prediction. It doesn't forecast Bitcoin's price or tell you what to do. It converts your income into a satoshi-denominated record so you can observe, track, and think clearly about your labor's value in Bitcoin terms.

SALI does not measure purchasing power in goods and services. It is not an inflation index. It is not financial advice.

The Formula

SALI (sats/year) = (Annual Salary in USD ÷ BTC Price in USD) × 100,000,000

One satoshi (sat) is one hundred-millionth of a Bitcoin — the smallest unit in the Bitcoin protocol. SALI converts your salary into its Bitcoin equivalent and expresses it in sats, making year-over-year comparisons concrete and consistent regardless of Bitcoin's price.

Read the full methodology →

About

I'm ANGARLO, an entrepreneur, investor, and Bitcoin educator. I built SALI to understand the real value of my own labor. Now it's public.