Who runs this site
One person, twenty-two tax systems, and a rule about only using primary sources.
Why it exists
Knowing what a salary is really worth should not take an accountant or an afternoon with a government PDF. Whether you are weighing up an offer, thinking about moving country, or just wondering why the payslip looks so little like the job advert, the answer ought to be seconds away.
That is the whole point of this site: one place where the calculation is immediate and free, across 22 of the world's larger economies.
Where it came from
It went live in 2026, out of a frustration anyone who has compared two offers in two countries will recognise. The rules are all published somewhere. Getting a straight answer to the question that actually decides things, what am I left with, is a different exercise entirely.
Most calculators handle one country. A few good ones manage several. The aim here was somewhere a nurse in Manchester, an engineer in Berlin and an accountant in Singapore all get the same thing: a net figure built from the rates their own authority publishes.
The person behind it
OÄŸuz Yasin BaÅŸ started NetSalaryAfterTax in 2026 and still runs every part of it: the calculators, the tax data for all 22 countries, and the calendar deciding when each gets looked at again. Every rate was entered from an official source and checked against how payroll actually works in that country before going live.
One person keeping 22 tax systems straight is a stretch, and there is no sense pretending otherwise. The safeguards exist for that reason: primary sources only, an update date printed on every page, and corrections turned round inside 48 hours. When a reader in Vienna or Dublin catches something, it gets fixed, credited and dated.
He can be reached at [email protected] or on LinkedIn.
What is on the site
Twenty-two salary calculators, taking in the UK, US, Germany, Australia, Canada, Ireland, France, the Netherlands and the rest. Each runs on the rates and thresholds its own revenue authority publishes, refreshed when that tax year turns over.
Around them sit three other kinds of page:
- Profession guides covering what nurses, teachers, software engineers, doctors, lawyers, accountants, data analysts and project managers are left with, from entry level up to senior, in every country listed.
- Country comparisons setting two systems against each other at the same income: UK against Ireland, US against Canada, Germany against Austria and several more.
- Longer articles on the quirks that move the numbers: Ireland's USC, the Dutch 30% ruling, Singapore's CPF, the Italian impatriati regime, and why the Swedish 60% figure people keep repeating is largely fiction.
Keeping the numbers honest
Tax rules move every year and sometimes mid-year. What that means in practice:
- Primary sources, no exceptions. Every rate, threshold and contribution ceiling comes from the revenue authority or finance ministry itself, never from an aggregator repeating someone else's summary.
- A review per tax year. Each calculator is revisited when that country's year turns: April in the UK, January across most of Europe, July in Australia.
- Mid-year announcements. A new band or an emergency budget goes into the affected calculator once the change is confirmed, rather than waiting for the annual pass.
- Dates printed on the page. Every calculator states the tax year it is running and when it was last checked, so nobody has to guess whether the figures are stale.
- Corrections inside 48 hours. Report an error with a link to the official source and it is fixed within two days.
The full method, down to how each country's income tax, social contributions and levies are modelled, is set out on the how the maths works page.
How it pays for itself
The site is free and will stay that way. Advertising covers the cost of running it. What advertising does not buy is any influence over the figures: nothing in the data is for sale, no financial product is ranked or recommended in return for payment, and the salary you type in goes nowhere at all. The calculation runs in your browser and the number never reaches a server.
Where the rates come from
The bodies behind the numbers include:
- United Kingdom: HM Revenue & Customs (gov.uk)
- United States: Internal Revenue Service (irs.gov)
- Germany: Bundesministerium der Finanzen (bundesfinanzministerium.de)
- Australia: Australian Taxation Office (ato.gov.au)
- Canada: Canada Revenue Agency (canada.ca)
- Ireland: Revenue Commissioners (revenue.ie)
- And the equivalent authority in each of the other countries covered. Every calculator links its own source underneath the results.
How things get written here
- Figures before adjectives. Any claim about tax or take-home pay traces back to a rate you can check at the source linked on the page.
- The words your payslip uses. Steuerklasse in Germany, USC and PRSI in Ireland, CPF in Singapore, tredicesima in Italy. Translating them into generic English would only make them harder to recognise when you meet them.
- No scare headlines. Tax writing attracts plenty of them. What you get here is the dull, accurate version: what comes off, what stays, and why.
- Limits stated openly. Where a pension, a benefit or a relief would change the answer, the page says so instead of pretending one figure covers everybody.
What these figures are not
Everything here assumes an ordinary employment position. Pension contributions, student loan repayments, company benefits, reliefs you may be entitled to and any self-employed income all sit outside what the calculators model. For advice that accounts for your own circumstances, speak to a qualified tax professional.
Rates are refreshed at the start of each tax year, and whenever something significant is announced in between. If you spot a mistake, get in touch: confirmed errors are corrected within 48 hours.
Getting in touch
Questions, corrections, press and partnership enquiries all arrive in the same inbox: [email protected]
There is a contact form too, if that suits better. Replies normally take a working day or two.