About Maternity Tally

Maternity Tally is a small, focused set of calculators for the questions pregnant people and new parents actually need answered. The flagship is the maternity leave calculator, which figures out — for your specific state, salary, employer, and birth type — how many weeks of leave you get, how much of that is paid, and what the action items are to actually claim the benefits you're entitled to.

We exist because the answers to these questions are scattered across state government websites, employer HR documents, and federal labor law — none of which speak to each other. The big pregnancy media sites (BabyCenter, WhatToExpect, Pampers) are media companies first, calculators second. Their tools are bolt-ons to massive editorial properties, often dated, and don't handle the cases that fall outside the typical "married, full-time, $80k, vaginal delivery, supportive employer" profile. The big calculator hubs (Omnicalculator, Calculator.net) are generic; they treat pregnancy as one category among hundreds.

The plan is not to compete with the big sites on volume. It's to be more correct — on state-specific math, on edge cases, on the cases the big sites refuse to redesign for: pregnancy after loss, IVF/IUI cycles, twins, LGBTQ+ families, the financial reality of having a baby in the United States.

What we believe

• Sources on every page. Every numeric value cites a primary source — usually a state department of labor, sometimes federal regulation, occasionally a peer-reviewed clinical paper. If we can't cite it, we don't publish it.
• Loss-aware language by default. Pregnancy doesn't always end in birth. The calculators don't celebrate at users until users tell them to. Recovery, "trying again", and pregnancy after loss are first-class scenarios.
• Inclusive defaults. "Birthing parent" or "you" — not "mom" or "the dad". Same-sex couples and donor-cycle families see themselves represented in the question flow.
• No popups, no paywalls, no upsells. Ads fund the site; that's all. No newsletter capture, no "premium tier", no email-gated content.
• Fast on a phone. Pages load instantly, even on a slow connection — especially important when you're checking this from your phone in a waiting room.

Data freshness

State paid family leave programs change every year — most on January 1, when new wage caps and contribution rates take effect. Some change mid-year through legislation. Maternity Tally runs an automated weekly monitor that watches each state government's program pages for changes. When a change is detected, it's flagged for human review before anything updates in the calculator — results are never silently changed. The methodology page has the full picture.

Get in touch

For data corrections, bug reports, or suggestions about scenarios we should model: contact us. We read everything.

What this is not

• Not legal advice. The calculator's output is informational. For decisions with legal consequences (employment disputes, denied benefits, complex situations), consult an employment attorney or your state's labor commissioner office.
• Not medical advice. Recovery weeks, eligibility certifications, and accommodation decisions belong with your healthcare provider.
• Not a financial planner. The dollar figures show your wage replacement during leave; they don't model taxes withheld, family budget impact, or longer-term financial planning.