About Ireland Pay Calculator

A free, independent suite of salary, tax and career tools built specifically for workers and jobseekers in the Republic of Ireland.

What this site is

Ireland Pay Calculator is a small independent web project that publishes free financial calculators and explainer guides for Irish workers. We focus on the questions people actually ask before payday: "What will I actually take home?", "How much will this bonus be taxed?", "Is this pay rise worth it after the higher tax band?", "What is my redundancy entitlement?"

Every tool on the site is built from the Irish Revenue rules in force for the current tax year. The output is always an estimate — your real payslip depends on your exact tax credits, cut-off point, pension scheme, and any benefit-in-kind on your record — but our goal is for the estimate to be close enough to be useful for planning, negotiation, or sense-checking a payslip.

Coverage
Republic of Ireland
Tax year
2026 PAYE rates
Cost
Free, no signup
Data we store
None — calculations run in your browser

Who builds it

The site is built and maintained by a small independent team based in Ireland. We are not a tax adviser, an accountancy firm, or a recruitment company — and we do not sell financial products. The site is funded entirely by display advertising, which lets us keep every tool free to use with no signup, no email capture, and no upsell.

Calculator logic is written and tested by the team, and every page is reviewed against the latest published rates from Revenue.ie and Citizens Information before going live. When rates change in the annual Budget, our calculators are updated within days.

You can reach the team through our contact page. We read every message and we appreciate corrections — if you spot a number that doesn't match your payslip, please tell us and we'll investigate.

Our editorial principles

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Accuracy over flash We would rather give a slightly less exciting number that matches the real tax rules than a polished one that doesn't. Every PAYE band, USC threshold and PRSI rate is sourced from the Revenue Commissioners and dated to the relevant tax year.
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Explain, don't just calculate A take-home figure on its own isn't very useful. Every calculator on the site is paired with an explainer that shows how the answer was reached — which band you hit, where the marginal rate kicked in, and how it would change at a different salary.
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Privacy by design Salary information is sensitive. Every calculation on this site runs locally in your browser using JavaScript — your salary, bonus, or redundancy figures never leave your device and are never sent to our servers. We have nothing to store and nothing to leak.
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Irish-first, not adapted Most "salary calculators" you'll find online are UK or US tools with a euro sign swapped in. We don't do that. Every rule on this site — the €44,000 standard rate band for 2026, the USC bands, PRSI Class A1, the SCSB redundancy formula — is built from the Irish rulebook directly.
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No financial advice We publish educational tools. We do not give personalised financial, tax or legal advice, and nothing on the site should be relied on as a substitute for talking to a qualified accountant, tax adviser, or financial planner about your individual situation.

How our numbers are sourced

All tax calculations on the site are built from the following official Irish public sources. We do not use third-party tax APIs, and every rate is verified against the source before publication.

Revenue Commissioners (revenue.ie) Citizens Information Gov.ie (Budget announcements) Workplace Relations Commission

For example, the PAYE standard rate band of €44,000 (single person, 2026), the USC bands (€12,012 / €27,382 / €70,044), the PRSI Class A1 rate, and the National Minimum Wage of €13.50/hour are all taken directly from these sources.

How the site is funded

Ireland Pay Calculator is funded by display advertising — primarily through Google AdSense. Ads pay for hosting, domain, and the time spent updating calculators when the Budget changes. We do not run affiliate links inside the calculators or take sponsorship for editorial content, and no advertiser has any say in how a tax band is reported or which jobs appear in our career comparisons.

If you'd like to support the site without seeing ads — for example, by using an ad blocker — that's completely fine. We'd rather you got an accurate answer than miss it because of an ad. Our privacy policy explains exactly what cookies and tracking are used.

Tools on the site

Everything on Ireland Pay Calculator is free and works without signup. Here's what's available:

  • Take-Home Pay Calculator — the main tool. Calculates net pay after PAYE, USC, PRSI and pension, with optional overtime.
  • Bonus Tax Calculator — shows how much of a once-off bonus you'll actually take home after marginal-rate tax.
  • Pay Rise Calculator — compares your take-home before and after a salary increase, including marginal-rate warnings.
  • Emergency Tax Calculator — estimates how much you've been overcharged on emergency tax and what you can claim back.
  • Redundancy Calculator — works out statutory redundancy plus the Standard Capital Superannuation Benefit (SCSB) tax-free exemption.
  • Minimum Wage Calculator — applies the National Minimum Wage and sub-minimum youth rates to your hours.
  • Budget Planner — a 50/30/20 budgeting tool built around Irish living costs.
  • Career Comparison and Course Guide — salary benchmarks across Irish industries and the courses that lead into them.
  • Career Quiz — a short quiz that matches your interests to Irish job sectors.

Get in touch

Spotted a number that doesn't match your payslip? Got a calculator request? Want to flag something out of date after the Budget? Please contact us — we read everything and we'd rather know.

For the legal stuff, see our Terms of Use and Privacy Policy.