🧭About NetSalaryApp

Gross salary is the number in the offer letter and it is close to meaningless across borders. A €60,000 offer in Riga, Munich and Lisbon produces three very different take-home amounts, and the gap is not only the income tax rate — it is social contributions, personal allowances that taper, solidarity surcharges, regional variation, and whether the employer’s share is quoted to you at all.

Most calculators handle one country. Comparing an offer in another means finding a second site, in a language you may not read, built on different assumptions about what “gross” includes. This one applies 18 national rule sets from a single engine, so a comparison between two of them is like for like.

The audience it is built for is the one it came from: people moving for work inside Europe, especially along the Baltic and Central European corridors, who need to know whether an offer abroad is actually better than the one at home.

Each country is a separate rule module that receives your gross figure, period, marital status and dependants, and returns an itemised breakdown — every tax and contribution as its own line, so you can see where the money went rather than a single net number.

• Local currency throughout. Sweden is computed in SEK, Norway in NOK, Poland in PLN, the UK in GBP, the UAE in AED and Brazil in BRL. Thresholds are never converted to euro first, because rounding a bracket boundary through an exchange rate moves the answer.
• Progressive brackets applied properly. Each band is charged at its own rate on the slice of income inside it, and tapering allowances are modelled where they exist rather than treated as a flat deduction.
• Employer cost shown where it matters. In several countries the employer’s contribution is a large share of the true cost of employing you, and it is invisible on a payslip. It is on the result.
• Your input stays in your browser. The engine is client-side code. Salary figures are not sent to us, stored or logged — see the privacy policy.

Every country’s parameters are taken from that country’s own tax authority or the legislation itself, not from secondary summaries. The table below names the primary source for each, and the date its figures were last verified against it.

We also publish what is not settled. European tax years are typically fixed in the autumn budget round of the preceding year, so for part of every year a “next year” calculator is partly guesswork. We do not guess: where a 2027 figure is not yet law, the calculator uses the 2026 value and says so. The 2027 tracker lists the status country by country.

Stating the limits plainly is more useful than implying there are none. A result here will differ from a real payslip where any of the following applies:

• Sub-national variation. Switzerland is the clearest case: income tax is levied by canton and municipality, so a single national figure is a representative approximation, not your actual bill. Municipal variation also matters in the Nordics, and Scotland runs its own bands within the UK.
• Personal tax codes. Germany’s tax classes, the UK’s tax code, Ireland’s credit certificate and the Dutch loonheffingskorting all change the monthly deduction. The calculator assumes the ordinary default for a single employee unless you tell it otherwise.
• Church tax, union dues and benefits in kind. Not included, and in Germany church tax alone is 8–9% of assessed income tax.
• Mid-year changes. Cumulative systems settle over a full year. Changing job, country or hours part-way through makes any single-month estimate approximate.
• Anything other than employment income. Capital gains, rental and dividend income follow different regimes and are out of scope, other than the self-employment regimes explicitly labelled as such.

None of this is tax advice. See the terms of use for the full position.

If a figure is wrong, we want to know, and a specific report gets fixed fast. Please include the country, the input you used, the result you expected, and the source you are reading — a link to the authority’s page is ideal. Send it to the contact form or use the contact page.

Rate changes are applied as they are legislated rather than on a fixed schedule, and each country page shows the date its figures were last verified. Corrections to published figures are made in place, with the verification date updated.

The calculators are free and there is no paywall on any tax figure. The site is paid for by advertising, by optional paid tools (in-depth country guides, the invoice generator, the cashflow and net-worth trackers), by paid job listings, and by API access for businesses that want the engine behind their own product.

What that funding does not buy: no advertiser, employer or partner has any influence over a tax figure, a country’s treatment, or where a job appears in the board. Advertising is clearly distinguishable from content, and the numbers are whatever the legislation says.

NetSalaryApp is an independent side project, built and operated from Latvia by one person. There is no payroll company or content team behind it, which is the reason it can say plainly where a number is approximate and which parts of a tax system it does not model — see what the calculator does not model.

The tax engine is written and maintained directly against each country’s own tax authority, and every country page names the source it was checked against and the date. Corrections are applied in place rather than batched, and a specific report — country, input, expected figure, source — usually lands the same week.

Reach us at the contact form, or through the contact page.