About Netpay

What Netpay does

Netpay turns a gross salary into a net salary. You enter what you earn per month or per year, choose a country and, where the rules need it, a few details such as your tax table, tax class or region. The page then shows income tax, social contributions, tax credits and what is left, both per month and per year, with a bar that shows where each 100 of gross pay goes.

The interface is available in English, Swedish, Norwegian, German and Dutch. Guides, the method page and the legal pages are written in English.

Why estimates are marked as estimates

A payslip depends on facts that no website can see: your tax code or tax card, your employer's pension scheme, benefits in kind, bonuses, and corrections made during the year. Netpay therefore shows every result as an estimate and says which standard situation it assumed. The calculator is useful for comparing job offers and planning a budget, and it is not a substitute for your payslip or your tax return.

Where the rules come from

Every rate, threshold and allowance comes from the page or document of a tax authority or from the text of the law, and each country page links to those sources. Where Netpay implements a published calculation, such as the Swedish table description or the German program flow plan, it was checked against the official tables or examples. The method page lists what was compared. If a rule for a country cannot be confirmed from an official source it is left out rather than guessed.

How it is paid for

Netpay is free and has no paid version. It is funded by a small number of clearly labelled ads that load only after you accept cookies. Ads never sit between the inputs and the result and never change a calculation.

Corrections

If a figure is out of date or wrong, write to jonathan.holmlidh@gmail.com with the country and the page of the authority that shows the current value. Changes in tax law are the most common reason a country page needs an update, and each page shows the date its rules were last checked.