Your income isn't just money. It's hours. Weeks. Years of your finite time on earth. The LTE Index shows you exactly how much of your working life the current economic system extracts — and what you could reclaim.
Calibrated for Vancouver, BC — tax rates, median costs & 3rd Way alternatives reflect Metro Vancouver.
Your working lifetime · 40 years · live preview
Housing
Transport
Food
Energy
Your life
Housing
Transport
Food
Energy
Yours
Step 1 — Your situation
Tell us about your costs
Estimates are fine. The LTE Index is designed to show the shape of your extraction, not to be tax-return precise.
Working life assumption:
35 years
40 years
45 years
50 years
Annual Income (before tax)
Your gross household income
$/yr
Housing
Rent or mortgage / month
$/mo
Strata / insurance / property tax
$/mo
Transport
Car payment / lease
$/mo
Insurance, fuel, transit, parking
$/mo
Food
Groceries / month
$/mo
Dining out / month
$/mo
Energy & Utilities
Hydro, gas, internet / month
$/mo
Your LTE Index
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years of your working life given to essential costs
If you shifted to 3rd Way alternatives
Your personal prescription
Projects matched to your highest-extraction categories
Ranked by how much life-time each project could return to you — starting with your biggest drains.
This is also your block's story. When you share your LTE Index with neighbours, patterns emerge — and patterns become the mandate for collective action. The Block Budget Explorer shows what your block's aggregate LTE Index looks like geographically, and which 3rd Way projects have the highest collective return.