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How rippedoffworker works

The short version: you tell it what you worked and what you were paid, and it turns that into a dated record you can keep and add to. You can see your own numbers for free before you decide whether to keep anything.

Step 1: Tell it how you’re paid

Start with how you’re paid — hourly, salaried, gig or commission. Not everyone gets ripped off the same way, and the questions you get asked are the ones that fit your work.

No account and no email address to begin. What you enter stays in your browser until you choose to save it, and you’ll see your own figures before you decide whether to keep anything.

Step 2: What it asks, and why it differs

Not everyone gets ripped off the same way, so the tool works differently depending on how you’re paid.

Hourly. Log the weeks you worked against the weeks you were paid. Unpaid time before and after shifts, worked-through breaks, and overtime that wasn’t paid at the rate you told us it should be.

Salaried. A salaried job doesn’t have a typical week, so we don’t ask you to invent one. You enter what you agreed to work, then type in four to six weeks you actually worked. The tool adds up the difference — and hours beyond an agreement add up faster than most people expect.

Gig and contract. Your costs come out of your own pocket, and they’re rarely counted. Log your hours, your take-home pay and your mileage, and you’ll see what you’re really earning per hour once driving costs are taken off.

Commission. Deals closed and commissions not paid, month by month.

Step 3: Build the record

This is the part that actually matters.

A single week proves very little. A dated record built over weeks and months is a different thing entirely — it shows a pattern, and a pattern is much harder to wave away than a complaint.

You can log:

  • Hours worked against hours paid, week by week
  • Overtime, breaks, deductions and out-of-pocket expenses
  • Mistreatment and retaliation, with dates and details
  • Photos of schedules, pay stubs and messages, once you’ve unlocked your record

Everything is dated as you enter it, and it stays private to you.

What you end up with

An organized record of what you worked and what you were paid — the kind of thing the Department of Labor, a union representative, or an employment lawyer will ask to see if you decide to take things further.

We’re not the ones who decide whether it goes anywhere. That’s you, and it’s them. Our job is making sure that when someone asks “what have you got?”, you have an answer.

What it doesn’t do

  • It doesn’t contact your employer, ever
  • It doesn’t tell you whether you have a legal case — we’re not lawyers and we don’t give legal advice
  • It doesn’t promise you’ll be paid
  • It doesn’t guess. Every number comes from something you entered

What it costs

Free to check, and free to start building.

Keeping your record long-term is a one-time $59. No subscription and no renewal. If you build a record for free and never come back, we delete it after 180 days — we’d rather not sit on your data indefinitely. Once you’ve unlocked it, that timer doesn’t apply.

Start where it makes sense for you

Start with how you’re paid — the four ways are on the front page, and each asks the questions that fit that kind of work.

Or if you just want one question answered first, check a couple of weeks — free, no account, nothing saved on our side.

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