Real data on what workers take home after tax - in 22 countries. No filler, no averages without context.
The same 60,000 euro salary put through all 22 tax systems on this site. Belgium leaves 3,071 euros a month, a no-tax US state leaves 4,131, and that is 12,700 euros a year between them. The Nordics finish nowhere near the bottom.
Read guide →A New Zealand nurse on NZD 75,000 keeps NZD 4,720 a month. An Australian nurse on AUD 80,000 keeps AUD 5,580. The tax systems are not different enough to explain that away, which is rather the point.
Read guide →The Helsinki games cluster pays 20% to 30% above the general tech baseline. A senior engineer on 90,000 euros keeps roughly 4,400 euros a month once TyEL and income tax have been settled.
Read guide →Luxembourg's floor for qualified workers is 2,570 euros a month, the highest in the union. A median software engineer nets 4,365. Frontalier commuting, EU institution pay and the fund industry premium all sit on top of that.
Read guide →An Israeli senior engineer on 400,000 shekels gross keeps 20,375 a month. Add section 102 RSUs, taxed as capital gains at 25%, and the shape of the package changes completely.
Read guide →A Tokyo senior engineer on 10,000,000 yen converts to 62,500 euros at 2026 rates, against 83,333 back in 2020. After shakai hoken and tax that is around 2,615 euros a month.
Read guide →The impatriati rules take 50% of employment income out of tax for up to five years. On 80,000 euros gross that is 4,680 euros a month against 3,640 without it.
Read guide →A nurse in Madrid on 28,000 to 34,000 euros gross keeps about 1,620 a month. The same nurse in Frankfurt, on 49,000 gross, keeps 2,780. That is the whole argument in two numbers.
Read guide →The top marginal rate reaches 55.9%. An engineer on DKK 700,000 keeps DKK 28,630 a month, roughly 3,840 euros. Here is what AM-bidrag, state and municipal tax each take, and what the money buys.
Read guide →The sovereign fund is past 1.7 trillion dollars and Norwegian salaries are among the highest in Europe. Yet a nurse on NOK 600,000 nets NOK 31,800 a month, about 2,720 euros. Costs and trygdeavgift explain the rest.
Read guide →A Singaporean on SGD 120,000 puts 20% into CPF and sees SGD 6,897 a month in cash. An expat on an Employment Pass, same salary, sees SGD 8,618. Nothing else in Singaporean pay comes close to that gap.
Read guide →On 80,000 euros gross a French employee keeps about 3,970 a month and a German 4,045. Two heavy reputations conceal a near dead heat, and a crossover at 70,000 that most people have backwards.
Read guide →On CHF 120,000 a resident of Zug keeps CHF 7,910 a month while a Geneva resident keeps CHF 6,468. Identical work, identical pay, different postcode, and CHF 17,000 a year in the difference.
Read guide →The top marginal rate is 52.3%, but most Stockholm professionals sit at an effective 25% to 34%. Here is what an engineer, a nurse and a senior manager really net, and why the marginal figure misleads people.
Read guide →In its first phase the ruling can be worth 958 euros a month to an expat professional. The 2024 changes stepped it down through 30%, then 20%, then 10% across 60 months.
Read guide →It is not simply another band. On 100,000 euros, PAYE, USC and PRSI take 36,174 between them and leave 5,319 a month. Every band, the pension quirk, and what Dublin multinational pay really looks like.
Read guide →A Band 5 nurse on £32,073 keeps £2,154 a month, not the £2,673 you get by dividing by twelve. Every deduction, what the pension actually costs, and why London weighting goes less far than it reads.
Read guide →Between £100,000 and £125,140 the Treasury takes 60p of every extra pound. It is not a bug in the system, it is the personal allowance taper, and salary sacrifice into a pension neutralises it.
Read guide →At comparable gross salaries UK workers keep roughly 13% more a month than their German counterparts. Income tax is not the reason. Software engineers, nurses and high earners compared in both systems.
Read guide →Singaporean income tax stops at 24%. British income tax reaches 45% before National Insurance is counted. For mid and high earners the monthly gap is startling, though CPF, housing and what you give up all belong in the sum.
Read guide →The OECD put the Belgian wedge at 52.7% in 2025. A worker on 60,000 euros gross keeps around 3,071 a month after ONSS and income tax. Why the top rate arrives at 46,000, and what comes back the other way.
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