Initial versus final stellar masses for the three sets of stellar models that were computed using the pragmatic solutions. The top panel shows the mass of stellar remnants as a function of their initial mass, as predicted by the Belczynski et al. (2008) prescription for the sets of stellar models computed using the pragmatic solutions. The bottom panel shows the final total mass (solid line) and the carbon-oxygen core mass (dashed line) that were used in calculating the remnant mass. For stars more massive than 60 M_⊙ the differences in the remnant mass can be up to 14 M_⊙.