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Ireland’s data-driven personal reality check

See yourself.
See Ireland.
See the truth.

Put your pay, housing cost, savings and pension next to CSO and Revenue benchmarks. Get one Reality Score, exactly why you got it, your three biggest gaps — and what to change.

Take the Mirror Test How the score works

2 minutesNo accountAnswers never leave your browser

Example: 31, renting in Cork, €46,000Example
69/100 · Solid
Financial
61
Career
61
Lifestyle
90
Future
71
  • Pay is 3% above the CSO national median.
  • Housing takes 40% of take-home pay.
  • Savings cover 1.9 months of outgoings.
An invented person, to show the format. Yours uses your answers.

What it measures

Four areas. Fixed weights. No black box.

30%

Financial Reality

Housing cost against take-home pay, months of emergency cover, and debt against income.

30%

Career Reality

Your pay against the CSO median for Ireland, your sector and your county.

20%

Lifestyle Reality

How much of your take-home is left after housing and everything else.

20%

Future Outlook

Projected pension income against a target, and how secure your housing is.

Same answers, same score. Every threshold is published.

What you get

Uncomfortably accurate. Then useful.

  1. 01

    Your Reality Score

    One number out of 100, plus a score and a plain-English explanation for each area.

  2. 02

    Why you got it

    What is working for you and what is under pressure — with your numbers and the benchmark side by side.

  3. 03

    Your 3 biggest gaps

    Ranked by how many points they cost you: what each means, why it matters, what you can change.

  4. 04

    Your escape routes

    Actions for this month, the next 12 months and the long term — and how your score moves if you take them.

Fact, estimate, model, example

Every number says what it is.

A brand called “see the truth” cannot blur an official statistic with its own guess. So every significant figure carries a tag.

Official data
Published by a public body (CSO, Revenue, RTB, gov.ie) and quoted as published.
Derived calculation
Simple arithmetic on official figures — for example rent as a share of median earnings.
BlackMirror model
A BlackMirror threshold or assumption. Stated openly so you can disagree with it.
Example
A demonstration number. Not real data about anyone.
Your input
A figure you entered. We do not check it and we do not keep it.
Official data

€44,816

Median annual earnings, all employees, 2024

Source: CSO — Earnings Analysis using Administrative Data Sources 2024 · 2024

Official data

€15,564

Full State Pension (Contributory) a year, 2026

Source: gov.ie — State Pension (Contributory), maximum personal rate · 2026

All the benchmarks, by county and sector

Private by design

We never see your answers.

  • No account, no sign-up
  • Calculated in your browser — answers are never sent to us
  • Gone when you close the tab, unless you choose to keep them
  • No AI processing of your answers
  • Nothing sold or shared — we have nothing to sell
  • Share cards show scores only, never your figures
Exactly what is and is not stored

Here are the numbers.
You decide what to do.

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When the data changes

An occasional email when new CSO, RTB or Budget figures move the benchmarks. Unsubscribe in one click.

What to do next

Picked for what you just worked out — not a list of everything we make.