Put in one salary and see the take-home pay for 111 countries side by side. Income tax and employee social contributions are both in the numbers, everything is worked out in your browser, and there is no account to create.
Compare income tax in 111 countries & US states (2026)
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Estimates for a single employee with standard allowances. Rates checked October 2026. Not tax advice.
One country, one salary, a full breakdown of tax and contributions.
Open the calculator →The same salary run through several tax systems, ranked for you.
Start a comparison →Country guides that explain the rules behind the numbers, in plain words.
Browse the guides →Federal tax plus a state layer for all 50 states and DC — and every Canadian province — right in the calculator above.
Open the US calculator →The countries people price up before a move, a job offer or a remote-work switch.
Personal allowance of £12,570; top rate of 45% applies above £125,140.
Open calculator →Standard deduction (single filer) of $16,100; top rate of 37% applies above $656,700.
Open calculator →Grundfreibetrag (basic allowance) of €12,348; top rate of 45% applies above €277,825.
Open calculator →Basic personal amount (federal) of $16,452; top rate of 33% applies above $258,482.
Open calculator →Tax-free threshold (modelled as the 0% first band, not a separate allowance); top rate of 45% applies above $190,000.
Open calculator →Personal minimum of €5,550; top rate of 47% applies above €300,000.
Open calculator →None (first S$20,000 of chargeable income is a 0% band); top rate of 24% applies above S$1,000,000.
Open calculator →No income tax on employment income. The full salary is take-home pay.
Open calculator →The basic result is a take-home figure. Switch on the advanced analysis in the calculator and the same salary tells a longer story.
Annual figures are hard to budget against. Every result can be split into a monthly amount, so a salary in one country can be set against rent, bills and savings in another, month by month.
Pick two or more countries and the calculator shows the yearly gap between the cheapest and the most expensive, then stretches it over ten years. Small rate differences stop looking small.
The date in the year when, in theory, you have finished paying your tax bill and the rest of the year is yours. One date per country makes very different tax systems easy to feel.
Rank your picks by the highest take-home, the lowest effective rate or the earliest Tax Freedom Day, and the order updates as you type. The ranking follows your salary, not a generic table.
A score out of ten for how your first country stacks up against all 111 countries at the same income, with the strongest alternative named and the yearly difference shown.
Tax is only half the picture. This view restates take-home pay at US prices using the World Bank's ICP price levels, so pay kept in a cheaper country counts for more, and a place that looks generous at market exchange rates does not win on paper and lose in real life.
Twenty-five countries at launch, from the US and UK to the UAE, India and Pakistan, each modelled on its own brackets, allowances and contribution rules, and labelled with its own tax year.
Every result breaks down into income tax, any extra levies a country charges, employee social contributions, total tax and the effective rate. You can check the working, not just trust the headline.
Enter a salary in any of the 82 currencies the 111 countries use. The engine converts it, applies the local rules in local currency, and converts the answer back, using a dated snapshot of reference rates from 28 October 2026 rather than live market prices.
Short answers on how the numbers are produced, what they include and what they leave out.
It is one calculator that holds the income tax rules of many countries at once. Instead of opening a separate tool for every tax system, you enter a salary once and see what each country would take in tax and contributions, and what it would leave. People use it when weighing a move abroad, a remote-work base, or a job offer paid in another country.
The marginal rate is the percentage charged on your next unit of income, the band your salary has climbed into. The effective rate is your whole tax bill divided by your whole salary. It is always lower, because the first slices of income are taxed lightly or not at all. Krynto leads with the effective rate and the take-home figure, since those describe what you actually pay.
Your salary is converted into the country's own currency first, the local brackets and allowances are applied in that currency, and the result is converted back so countries can be compared side by side. Conversion uses European Central Bank reference rates from 28 October 2026. They are reference rates, not live market prices, so converted figures are estimates and the local-currency figure on each card is the one the local rules produced.
Yes, and the page says so. On the homepage, a US salary can add any state's tax on top of the federal bill — all 50 states and the District of Columbia are in the state list (nine of them add nothing; they levy no tax on wages). A Canadian salary can be run through any province or territory; Ontario is the default provincial layer, alongside federal tax, CPP and EI. Every state and province also has its own calculator page with the full breakdown.
It is the effective rate applied to the calendar. At a 25% effective rate, a quarter of the year is notionally spent paying the tax bill, so Tax Freedom Day falls around the end of March. It is a picture of the overall burden, not a real payment date, and it moves with your salary because the effective rate moves.
No. These are planning estimates built on standard allowances for a single employee. A real return also involves personal deductions, credits, family circumstances, other income and local rules that vary street by street in some countries. Use Krynto to compare and to plan, then use a qualified tax professional in the relevant country to file.