UK Take-Home Pay Calculator 2025/26 – Calculate Your Net Pay After Tax
Instant UK take-home pay calculator. Accurate PAYE, Umbrella and Limited Company tax breakdowns with student loan, pension and salary sacrifice support — updated for the 2025/26 tax year.
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Standard PAYE salary calculator
Use this tab if you're a UK employee paid through PAYE. For payslip-by-payslip checks, use the 'Periodic tax check' tab.
Primary job
Enter your main employment income details
Annual: £72,000.00 | Hourly (est.): £36.92
Used to derive hourly breakdown from your results
Your default tax code (e.g. 1257L)
You can have both an undergraduate plan and a postgraduate loan at the same time. Both will be deducted from your take-home pay.
Pension & SIPP
Pensions & SIPP
SIPP amounts are assumed to be paid personally (net of basic-rate relief). Extra relief is estimated based on your combined marginal band.
Additional jobs
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Take-home pay breakdown
Main job – Primary job
Headline net take-home: £50,229.40 / year (£4,185.78 / month)
- Gross pay (annual)
- £72,000.00
- Gross pay (monthly)
- £6,000.00
- PAYE income tax
- £14,792.00
- National Insurance
- £3,378.60
- Workplace pension (employee)
- £3,600.00
- Student loans
- Included in combined totals below
- Net take-home (annual)
- £50,229.40
Combined across all jobs
Estimated PAYE take-home after income tax, NI, pension and SIPP.
Net take-home (monthly)
£4,185.78
- Gross pay (annual)
- £72,000.00
- PAYE income tax
- £14,792.00
- National Insurance
- £3,378.60
- Workplace pension (employee)
- £3,600.00
- Net take-home (annual)
- £50,229.40
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These figures are estimates based on current UK PAYE rules and your inputs. They're for guidance only and not an official HMRC calculation.
Coverage
Compare PAYE, Umbrella, and Limited Company take-home pay. Calculate multiple jobs, all student loan plans (1, 2, 4, 5, and Postgraduate), and see how IR35 status affects your net pay.
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Clear breakdowns of gross pay, income tax, National Insurance, student loan repayments, and pension contributions on every calculation. See exactly where your money goes.
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