<prompt> Human: I created a Gross salary calculator based off of how much student debt you haveexpect to have.I made this while I was weighing the option of going back to get a graduate degree in my field. I wanted to see if my future earning potential would justify the cost of going back to school. Salary CalculatorA few notes 1. This is based off of the student loan counseling everyone goes through Recommendations from the government is that the student loan debt should be between 8-15 of ones income. Ive seen other places recommend 8-12, which determines the minimum and ideal amounts in my calculator respectively.1. The interest rate is the same one used for the government student loan calculators you can find online, 6.8 which is the same as a the unsubsidized stafford loan. Ideally youre student loans are lower, but some may be higher private loans while others are much lower. I did this out of simplicity, but if theres enough demand I may change things so that you may add your individual loans and interest rates to calculate out the results.1. Ive also included the graduated repayment plans that can be offered, as well as minimum raises to keep up with the gradual yearly increases in these plans. 1. Income-based repayments are not included in this since its highly variable. Note that this shouldnt be taken as the the final say, but just to give a general idea.Part of my motivation is also to help some of my younger friends to understand the costs associated with their education. I remember not paying any attention to my entrance and exit loan counseling in school, until my first student loan payment came due. Full Disclosure: This calculator is associated with a blog I manage. You can ignore the blog, theres no advertising or revenue being generated on the calculator page. EDIT: Theres an error thats showing incorrect values, if the numbers appear to be astronomically high, reload the page and try again. Im addressing it now. When I put in 40000 for undergrad it was showing the calculations for 140,000.EDIT 2: If you dont have any graduate loan debt, leave it empty instead of placing a 0. Having something in there runs a different algorithm and is producing funky results for some people. Ill be addressing this in a few hours when Im home from work, sorry for the confusion.  <response>: The fact that my comfortable salary is lower than my current salary makes me feel like Ive won the lottery. 