About WorkPay Ireland
An independent tools site for people working in Ireland, built to answer specific questions about pay.
Why it exists
The rules that decide Irish pay are not secret, but they are spread across Revenue, the Department of Social Protection, the Workplace Relations Commission and several Acts. For someone paid by the hour in hospitality or retail, assembling all that just to check one payslip costs an afternoon. WorkPay Ireland gathers those rules into twelve tools, each answering one question, with the working shown.
Who it is for
People who are paid in Ireland and want to check a figure: someone on an hourly rate working variable shifts, someone who has just moved here and does not recognise the deductions on their first payslip, someone deciding between two job offers, someone who thinks their holiday accrual is wrong. It is written for the person being paid, not for payroll departments or accountants.
Who runs it
WorkPay Ireland is built and maintained independently by one developer, Diego Bernabeu, from Galway. WorkPay Ireland is the trading name he operates under; it is not an incorporated company. There is no company behind it, no office and no team — and no reason to pretend otherwise. What that means in practice is honest to say: corrections are read and acted on quickly, and there is no support desk. If a figure is wrong, one email reaches the person who can fix it.
WorkPay Ireland is an independent information service. It is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or connected to Revenue, the Department of Social Protection, the Workplace Relations Commission or Citizens Information. Where those bodies are named, it is because they are the source of a rule, and the link goes to their own page.
How the calculators are built
Every rate, band, credit, minimum wage and leave rule lives in one versioned file, grouped by tax year, each with its official source and the date a person checked it. No formula anywhere on the site contains a hand-typed percentage: they all read from that file. The calculation engine has 105 unit tests covering band boundaries, shifts that cross midnight, and years where a rate changes mid-way. The methodology page explains what is checked and how.
What this site does not do
- It does not give advice about your particular case. The calculators apply published rules; they cannot see your Revenue record, your tax credits or your contract. Nothing here is tax, legal or financial advice.
- It does not invent entitlements. Irish law often sets a floor rather than a figure — Sunday work is the clearest case — so where the amount comes from your contract, the page says that instead of quoting a percentage.
- It does not publish a figure without a source. Where a tool cannot verify something, the result says so rather than assuming.
Where your figures go
The twelve calculators run entirely in your browser: what you type is never sent anywhere, and you need no account to use them. Two features work differently and it would be dishonest to lump them in: the AI payslip analyser uploads the document you choose to an AI provider, because that is the only way to read it, and saved calculations are stored against your account if you create one. Both are opt-in, and the privacy policy sets out exactly what happens to each.
Reporting an error
If a figure looks wrong, email diego.bernabeu.martinez@gmail.com with the page link, the figure you saw and the official source that says otherwise. Corrections to legal or tax figures are dealt with before anything else.