True Gig Pay — static site

A free, single-purpose calculator site for gig drivers: true hourly earnings after vehicle costs and self-employment tax, legal pay-floor checks (CA Prop 22, NYC, Seattle, Washington rideshare), and an offer quick-checker.

Pure static site. No build step, no backend, no dependencies, no external requests. System fonts only. All math runs client-side from two files:

• calc.js — pure calculation functions + the dated CONSTANTS block (Node-importable for tests)
• app.js — form handling, validation, and rendering for index.html

Pages: index.html (the tool), methodology.html, prop-22.html, nyc-pay.html, irs-mileage.html, about.html, plus styles.css, favicon.svg, robots.txt, sitemap.xml.

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Deploy to Cloudflare Pages (free)

Option A — Direct upload (no Git, fastest)

1. Create a free Cloudflare account and verify your email.
2. Dashboard → Workers & Pages → Create → Pages → Upload assets.
3. Name the project, then upload this whole site/ folder (or a ZIP of it).
4. Deploy. Your site is live at https://<project>.pages.dev.
5. (Optional) Attach a custom domain later under the project's Custom domains tab.

Option B — Git-connected (auto-deploy on push)

1. Push this folder's contents to a GitHub repository (see below).
2. Cloudflare Dashboard → Workers & Pages → Create → Pages → Connect to Git.
3. Select the repo. Build settings: Framework preset: None, Build command: (empty), Build output directory: / (or the folder containing index.html if the repo root is higher).
4. Deploy. Every push to the production branch redeploys automatically.

Deploy to GitHub Pages (free alternative)

1. Create a GitHub repository and push the contents of this site/ folder to it.
   • For a user/organization site (<username>.github.io), files must be at the repo root.
   • For a project site, files can be at the root or in /docs.
2. Repo Settings → Pages → Source: Deploy from a branch → pick the branch and folder.
3. Save. The site publishes at the URL shown on that settings page.

After deploying (either platform)

1. Replace the placeholder domain https://truegigpay.example.com in robots.txt and sitemap.xml with the real domain.
2. Visit every page on the live URL and re-run one calculator example by hand against tests/tests.js expectations.
3. Submit sitemap.xml in Google Search Console and Bing Webmaster Tools.

Updating rates (the only routine maintenance)

All rates live in one place: the CONSTANTS block at the top of calc.js. Each constant names its source and effective period in a comment.

Update calendar:

What	When it changes	Source to check
IRS standard mileage	Each December for the next year; rarely mid-year	IRS "Standard mileage rates" page / annual notice (+ mid-year IR if issued)
Social Security wage base	Each fall for the next year	SSA wage-base announcement
CA minimum wage / Prop 22 per-mile	January 1	CA DIR; CA State Treasurer Prop 22 figures
NYC delivery minimum pay	April 1	NYC DCWP
Seattle per-minute / per-mile / per-offer	January 1	Seattle Office of Labor Standards
WA TNC (rideshare) rates	January 1	WA L&I "Getting Paid" page

Procedure:

1. Verify the new figure on the official source (never a blog or another calculator).
2. Edit the constant(s) in calc.js, and update the comment with the new source/effective date.
3. Set RATES_VERIFIED_ON to today's date, and update the "rates verified" dates in the page footers, the constants strip on index.html, and methodology.html.
4. Update the worked examples in tests/tests.js if a constant you changed is used in one, then run: node ../tests/tests.js (must be all-pass).
5. Add a CHANGELOG.md entry (in the project root, one level up from this folder).
6. Redeploy (Git push, or re-upload the folder).

Tests

Calculation tests live outside this folder at ../tests/tests.js and run with plain Node — no packages to install:

node ../tests/tests.js

They cover the mileage split-rate boundary, SE tax including the Social Security wage-base cap, all five pay floors, the offer quick-check, and NaN/Infinity edge cases, each with the hand-computed math in comments.