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Salary Calculator

Calculate your take-home pay with a live breakdown of tax, pension, and other deductions — converted across every pay period instantly.

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Salary Details

Enter your salary information

Deductions

Enter a percentage, an amount, or both — we'll work out the other side automatically.

💡 These calculations are estimates. Actual values may vary.

Enter your gross salary to see your live take-home breakdown.

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Supported Formats

No file — enter figures directly on the page.

Common Uses

Comparing a job offer's gross salary against your actual take-home pay
Working out take-home pay after adding a bonus or overtime
Converting an hourly rate into an equivalent monthly or annual salary
Estimating net pay before accepting a new role or negotiating a raise

💡 Pro Tip

If you're comparing two job offers with different pay structures (one hourly, one annual), enter each into a separate calculation and compare the take-home figures side by side, rather than converting by hand.

Questions People Ask

Frequently Asked Questions

📖Salary Calculator Guide

Breaks down your gross salary into a real take-home pay figure, with a live deductions chart, country-preset templates, and instant conversion across every pay period.

When to use this

Use this to understand what you'll actually take home from a salary offer, compare pay periods (hourly vs monthly vs annual), or work out the effect of adding overtime, bonuses, or new deductions.

Step-by-step workflow

  1. 1Enter your gross salary and pay period Choose Hourly, Daily, Weekly, Bi-weekly, Monthly, or Annually, and pick your currency.
  2. 2Load a template or build your own deductions The 📋 Load Template button offers Nigeria (PAYE), United Kingdom, and United States starting presets — or build your own from a blank list.
  3. 3Adjust each deduction Enter either a percentage or a fixed amount per deduction — the other side calculates automatically — and mark each as before-tax or after-tax.
  4. 4Add optional earnings if relevant Bonus, Allowance, Commission, or Other Income, plus an overtime calculator (hourly rate, hours worked, standard hours, overtime multiplier).
  5. 5Review your results See your Take Home Pay, a deductions breakdown chart, and a full conversion table across every pay period.

Tips for best results

  • Name your deductions with recognizable words like "Tax" or "Pension" — the tool automatically detects and highlights these in your results based on the name.
  • Use the Salary Conversion table to instantly see what your take-home pay looks like at any other pay frequency without re-entering anything.
  • The country templates are a useful starting point, not authoritative tax figures — always confirm current rates for your actual situation.

Common mistakes to avoid

  • Treating the country templates (Nigeria, UK, US) as exact, up-to-date tax law — they're illustrative starting rates you should adjust to your real deductions.
  • Naming a deduction something generic like "Deduction 1" and then wondering why it doesn't show up as Tax or Pension in the breakdown — the auto-detection relies on the name you give it.
  • Forgetting to mark a deduction as before-tax or after-tax — this affects the actual take-home calculation, not just the display.

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