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This page provides an illustrative salary calculator that demonstrates how gross salary, mandatory deductions, and employer costs interact under clearly defined, simplified assumptions.
The calculator is intended to support understanding of structural salary mechanics. It helps explain how taxes and social contributions affect net pay, and how employment costs are distributed between employee and employer.
This tool is not payroll software and does not calculate individual obligations, applicable tax rates, or legally binding amounts. It does not account for personal circumstances, contracts, exemptions, or temporary national measures.
The calculator presents salary from two interconnected perspectives: the employee perspective and the employer perspective. These perspectives are structurally related but not identical. From the employee perspective, gross salary serves as a reference value from which mandatory deductions are calculated. These deductions typically include income taxes and compulsory social‑security contributions. The remaining amount is shown as net pay. When the employer cost view is enabled, the calculator shows the employer perspective. In this view, salary is accompanied by additional mandatory employer‑borne contributions. These payments do not increase employee income. Taken together with gross salary, they form the total labour cost of employment. Identical gross salaries can result in different net pay and total labour costs across systems. These differences reflect institutional design choices about taxation and social‑security financing, not calculation errors.
Scope and limitations This calculator is illustrative. It does not account for personal circumstances, household composition, contractual arrangements, or eligibility conditions. The results are not authoritative or legally binding. The purpose of this tool is to support structural understanding of how salary, deductions, and employment costs relate within an employment system.