Contract & cash
Track base salary, signing bonuses, performance bonuses, two-way terms, retained salary, and cash received.
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NHLBudgetBUILT FOR PROFESSIONAL HOCKEY
Your contract number is not your spending number.
NHLBudget helps players organize salary, escrow, taxes, agent fees, bonuses, off-season costs, and future reserves into one clear plan.
PRIVATE ATHLETE WORKSPACELOGIN REQUIRED
Your financial information stays off the public website.
Sign in to access contract, paycheck, tax, escrow, runway, scenario, protection, and report tools.
Calculators and scenariosProtected
Saved plans and reportsProtected
Player-entered informationPrivate
THE NHLBUDGET DIFFERENCE
Plan around the money you can keep.
A contract headline leaves out timing, deductions, uncertainty, and life after hockey. NHLBudget organizes those realities before they become expensive surprises.
Taxes, escrow & fees
Estimate federal, state, provincial, jock-tax, agent-fee, union-dues, and escrow reserves.
Sign in to openCareer runway
Build off-season, emergency, injury, lockout, retirement, and post-hockey career reserves.
Sign in to openPlayer protection
Stress-test trades, waivers, buyouts, injuries, family support, homes, vehicles, and major commitments.
Sign in to openCONTRACT TRUTH
Four numbers that should never be confused.
NHLBudget keeps each stage separate so a headline does not quietly become a spending assumption.
Headline contract value
The amount commonly reported or shown across the full agreement. It may include future seasons and uncertain compensation.
Learn how it worksProtected compensation
The portion currently protected under the entered contract assumptions. Contract language still requires professional review.
Learn how it worksCompensation earned
Money earned through completed service, earned bonuses, and other satisfied conditions.
Learn how it worksCash received
Money that has actually reached the player after timing differences and withholding. This is reconciled against pay statements.
Learn how it worksPLAYER SYSTEMS HUB
More than a monthly budget.
The private dashboard organizes the decisions that surround a professional hockey career. Public pages explain the tools; personal information is entered only after sign-in.
Contract & cash
Separate contract value, protected compensation, earned income, bonuses, and deposits.
Open after sign-inPaychecks & calendar
Organize expected checks, actual deposits, season timing, and important dates.
Open after sign-inTaxes, escrow & fees
Track estimated reserves, withholding, escrow, agent fees, union costs, and reconciliation gaps.
Open after sign-inCross-border planning
Organize U.S.–Canada residency, currency, withholding, tax-credit, and duty-day questions.
Open after sign-inOff-season runway
Measure how long liquid reserves may cover essential expenses when checks stop.
Open after sign-inRoster scenarios
Stress-test a trade, assignment, waiver, injury, lockout, buyout, or delayed contract.
Open after sign-inPurchases & commitments
Test housing, vehicles, debt, family support, and recurring lifestyle decisions.
Open after sign-inEndorsements & business
Separate business revenue, expenses, tax reserves, records, and personal cash.
Open after sign-inProtection center
Review emergency cash, disability, health, life, property, liability, and identity safeguards.
Open after sign-inCareer transition
Fund education, licensing, business preparation, retirement, and life after hockey.
Open after sign-inProfessional team
Organize which questions belong with agents, attorneys, tax professionals, and other qualified advisers.
Open after sign-inReports & snapshots
Save dated plan versions and print a player report before a major financial decision.
Open after sign-inONE PLAN IS NOT ENOUGH
Plan for three versions of the season.
A useful budget should show what happens when the season goes as expected, costs rise, or income stops earlier than planned.
See the complete processOrganize current paychecks, reserves, recurring expenses, and decisions while compensation is arriving.
Cover the period between checks without treating investments, future bonuses, or the next contract as current cash.
Test injury, assignment, waiver, buyout, lockout, retirement, or a delayed next opportunity before it happens.
PRIVATE. ACCOUNT-PROTECTED. PLAYER-CONTROLLED.
Your financial life does not belong on a public webpage.
The homepage accepts no salary, contract, tax, family, housing, debt, or account information. Personal tools open only after authentication.
Login-required tools
Calculators, scenarios, saved plans, reports, and checkups remain inside the athlete account.
Privacy mode
The dashboard is designed to support concealed-dollar and percentage-based review when discretion matters.
Player-controlled access
Athlete information remains private. Organization reporting should be aggregate-only unless the player authorizes access.
Safer document handling
Do not upload contracts, tax returns, banking details, or identity documents until secure-vault controls are active.
BUILT AROUND A CHANGING CAREER
Useful at every stage of professional hockey.
Build the first professional budget, understand paycheck timing, resist lifestyle inflation, and prepare for uncertainty.
Open Rookie modeCoordinate multiple contracts, homes, family commitments, businesses, investments, and long-term career transition.
Open Veteran modeModel different pay rates, assignment days, travel, relocation, and the risk of changing compensation.
Open two-way toolsOrganize residency, currency, withholding, credits, and questions for qualified U.S. and Canadian professionals.
Open cross-border toolsFREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS
Know what NHLBudget is—and what it is not.
No. NHLBudget is an independent educational and organizational platform. It does not provide personalized tax, legal, accounting, insurance, investment, labor, contract, agent, or financial advice.
Make every season support the next one.
Build a clear plan for the contract you have and the life you want after hockey.
Build my NHL budgetImportant disclosures
Educational use only. NHLBudget provides organizational tools, illustrations, and estimates. It does not provide tax, legal, accounting, insurance, investment, financial-planning, labor, contract, or agent advice.
Calculations are not guarantees. Results depend entirely on information and assumptions entered by the user. Contract terms, escrow, taxes, residency, currency conversion, duty-day allocations, benefits, and league rules may change and require review by qualified professionals.
Privacy and access. Personal calculators, scenarios, reports, and player-entered financial information are available only after authentication. Players should not share credentials or upload sensitive documents until secure-vault controls are active.
No affiliation or endorsement. NHLBudget is an independent educational platform and is not affiliated with, sponsored by, or endorsed by the NHL, NHLPA, any club, team, league, union, agent, or professional organization. Team or organization access should be aggregate-only unless a player expressly authorizes otherwise.