Basic income forecasting is available to all users. Premium adds advanced forecast tools: Most likely range, Best pickup options and Goal check.
ServerLife estimates your take-home earnings for the current month using your recorded shifts. Your forecast is based on your own earnings and work patterns, rather than industry averages or outside data.
Understand your forecast totals
Open Forecast to see three amounts:
Monthly Total (est.): Your recorded earnings so far plus your estimated remaining earnings.
So Far: Your recorded take-home earnings for the current month to date.
Remaining (est.): Your estimated earnings for the rest of the month.
You can see a forecast before recording your first shift of a new month, provided you have recorded shift history. If So Far is $0, your Monthly Total (est.) comes entirely from estimated remaining earnings.
How your forecast is calculated
When Use my schedule is off, ServerLife uses your past work patterns.
It looks at your last 90 days of recorded shifts, excluding paycheck entries. For each day of the week, it calculates:
Average take-home earnings: The average amount you earned when you worked that day of the week.
Work frequency: How often you worked that day of the week.
For each day of the week, ServerLife multiplies average take-home earnings by work frequency, then multiplies the result by the number of remaining occurrences in the month. It adds these amounts together to calculate Remaining (est.).
Why work frequency matters
Your average earnings show what you earn when you work a particular day of the week. Work frequency accounts for whether you’re likely to work it. Using only your average earnings would assume you’ll work every remaining occurrence, which could overestimate your monthly total.
For example, if you average $180 when you work Fridays and usually work 80% of Fridays, ServerLife multiplies those values to get $144. If three Fridays remain, it multiplies $144 by 3 to add $432 to Remaining (est.). Your average earnings for a Friday you actually work are still $180.
ServerLife repeats this calculation for the other days of the week, then adds Remaining (est.) to So Far to get Monthly Total (est.).
The date range used to calculate your forecast appears beneath the confidence level. Tap See forecast breakdown to view more details about your estimate.
View a more specific forecast
Available with ServerLife Premium. Tap the filter icon in the top-right corner to narrow your forecast by job or other work details. This lets you view an estimate for a specific part of your work.
How your work schedule affects your forecast
Work schedules are available with ServerLife Premium. Expand Forecast settings and turn on Use my schedule to include your remaining scheduled days in your forecast.
Each scheduled day is counted at 100% work frequency, rather than using how often you worked that day in the past. The earnings estimate still uses your average take-home earnings for that day of the week.
For example, if your average Friday earnings are $180, a scheduled Friday contributes $180 to your forecast — even if you historically worked only 80% of Fridays. Your schedule tells ServerLife you’ll work that day, so it uses your average Friday earnings.
Days without a scheduled shift still use your historical average earnings and work frequency.
How your recorded history affects your forecast
Record every shift so your forecast reflects both your earnings and how often you work.
Because ServerLife uses your last 90 days of shifts, recent job or schedule changes may not be fully reflected right away. Unusually busy or slow periods can also affect the estimate. As older shifts fall outside that window and you record new ones, your forecast adjusts.
Your actual earnings may differ from the forecast.
For tips on keeping your records complete, checking your entries and maintaining your schedule, see How to build a more reliable income forecast.