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Dutch salary calculator 2026

What is left of your salary — to the cent, in your own browser

What do you want to work out?
Your salary

Three questions are enough for an answer to the cent.

The figure on your contract, before deductions. Excluding holiday allowance.
Per month is your payslip; per year adds the holiday allowance.
The payroll tax credit may only be applied by one employer at a time. On a second job it is switched off and far more is withheld — which is why a side job pays so much less net than people expect. Anything over-withheld comes back with your annual return.
Your situation
From the AOW pension age you no longer pay the AOW premium, so the first bracket drops from 35.75% to 17.85%. For those born in 1945 or earlier that first bracket runs slightly further.
What's in the package
Almost every Dutch contract pays 8% vakantiegeld, usually as a lump sum in May. It belongs to the year rather than to a single month, so you see it in the yearly figure.
For employees recruited from abroad: part of the salary may be reimbursed tax-free. Since 2026 that reimbursement is capped for everyone at the WNT norm.
% Not a statutory rate — it depends on your employer’s scheme. Read it off your payslip, or leave it at zero. The contribution also lowers the tax you pay.
What you cost your employer
What the job costs your employer on top of your salary. In the Netherlands that covers almost everything other countries take out of the employee’s pay.
With a written open-ended contract that is not an on-call contract, the employer pays the low unemployment premium instead of the high one.
Small employers pay the low disability fund premium.

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What do you take home?

€2,613 Net per month

of €3,000 gross

Average
12.89%
Marginal
39.75%

What if…

From gross to net

Gross salary €3,000.00
Tax and contributions −€386.83
Payroll tax (loonheffing) −€386.83 How is this worked out?

Base: €3,000.00 · Source: Belastingdienst

Net salary €2,613.17
Cost to the employer €3,539.70

Your gross salary plus the premiums your employer pays on top of it.

Marginal rate by salary level
What comes off the next euro
20%40%60% €0€7,500€15,000

At €3,000 gross the marginal rate is 39.75%.

What we assume

  • Calculated with the Belastingdienst’s Rekenvoorschriften voor de geautomatiseerde loonadministratie 2026, version 2.
  • An estimate based on what you entered — not tax advice.
  • Calculated with the payroll tax credit applied.
  • Holiday allowance is outside the monthly figure; it belongs to the year.
  • The return-to-work premium is the published average; your employer has its own rate.

Tax year 2026 · Data updated: 2026-08-12.