Salary, VAT & Working Days Calculators by Country
Net salary, VAT and working days for every country, in your language. Get your take-home pay in seconds. No sign-up, no ads in your way.
| Pension contribution | -โฌ186 |
| Health insurance | -โฌ175 |
| Long-term care insurance | -โฌ48 |
| Unemployment insurance | -โฌ26 |
| Income tax | -โฌ81 |
| Net (take-home) | โฌ1,484 |
Salary calculator
Turn a gross salary into real take-home pay.
VAT calculator
Add or remove VAT at the correct local rate.
Working days
Count working days and public holidays.
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Guides
Where the numbers come from, and where comparing two countries stops meaning anything.
How gross-to-net pay is actually calculated
The order in which social contributions, allowances and income tax are applied changes your take-home pay by a couple of percent. Here is the sequence, and where countries disagree about it.
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Nine reasons an estimate and a real payslip disagree, sorted by how much money is usually involved, and how to tell which one is wrong.
8 min readThe tax-free allowance, and why headline tax rates lie
A flat 22% tax produces an effective rate of 5.8% or 19.7% depending only on salary. The allowance is why, and it makes every headline-rate comparison misleading.
6 min read