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Netherlands take-home pay calculator · 2024–2026

See what your offer could mean for your budget. Choose your circumstances, enter your pay and estimate your annual take-home income.

2024–2026 rules

Your pay and circumstances

Choose the year and the circumstances you want to estimate, then enter your salary.

1. Your circumstances

Tax bands, credits and ruling limits follow the year you choose.

Choose your actual work arrangement. Research and medical-training exceptions have specific conditions; a job title alone is not enough.

Age, insurance and other incomeBelow AOW all year · Covered all year · Salary only

AOW age is 67 in 2024–2026. For the two full-year AOW options, choose your birth year: 1946 or later, or before 1946. Reaching AOW during the year needs a separate calculation.

This covers AOW, Anw and Wlz, separate from your personal health-insurance premium. Only choose full exemption if it has been confirmed. Nationality alone does not tell you which schemes apply.

2. Your salary

Enter the amount for the period you select. Add bonuses separately below.

Check your contract; 8% is common. “Included” splits the amount you entered. “Add on top” adds it once. Enter bonuses separately.

Bonus, pension and pay details

Leave at zero if already included in your pay. We do not add holiday allowance to this bonus.

Optional. Enter the pension payments deducted from your salary before tax. Don’t include your employer’s payments or separate personal pension savings. If you’re unsure, leave this at €0; that may overestimate your take-home pay.

Weekly, daily and hourly pay use 52 weeks of paid work. Hours and days also set the equivalent daily/hourly figures in the results. They do not reduce an entered monthly or annual salary.

30% ruling (optional)No ruling

Only use an approved arrangement that applies to your circumstances. This calculator does not check eligibility. The tax-free allowance is already part of your salary, not extra pay.

Your salary stays on this device. We don’t send it anywhere or save it.

What will your offer leave you with?

Choose your circumstances and enter your pay to see your estimated annual income and monthly average.

What this estimate covers

This estimates annual take-home pay from employment using the circumstances you choose. It includes income tax, applicable national insurance and the relevant tax credits. Personal health-insurance premiums, rent and living costs still come out of the amount shown.

This is not a tax return or payroll withholding calculation. Other income/deductions, treaty cases, part-year tax/insurance changes and unverified profiles need additional information. A full-year projection does not calculate your first-year settlement.

2024–2026 rules

How is the result calculated?

  1. Annualize your offer

    We convert the entered pay to a full year, count holiday allowance once and add the separate annual bonus. This cash total already includes any tax-free ruling allowance.

  2. Apply your circumstances

    We subtract your deductible employee pension contribution before calculating any ruling allowance, using the selected year’s salary threshold and cap. We keep the pension contribution the same with and without the ruling; your employer’s arrangement may differ.

  3. Calculate tax and credits

    The selected year, age and confirmed insurance status determine income tax, national insurance and the relevant credits. Credits can reduce tax to zero; unused amounts are not added to your income.

  4. Show your budget

    Gross annual salary minus your deductible employee pension contribution and estimated tax gives take-home income. Period figures are averages for planning, not payroll withholding tables.

Sources for the calculation

Sources checked on 27 September 2026. The list follows the selected year. Original documents are in Dutch or English.

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