Pay and tax

Hourly wage after tax in Ireland

Convert between hourly, weekly, monthly and yearly pay.

Updated for tax year 2026 Figures verified on 14 September 2026 PAYE · USC · PRSI Worked out in your browser

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Updated for tax year 2026

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Understand your payslip in seconds

Three deductions decide what lands in your account. Here is what each one is, in plain language.

PAYE

Income tax

Twenty per cent up to your standard rate band, forty above it. Your tax credits then come off the tax itself — not off your income.

USC

Universal Social Charge

A separate charge on your gross pay, in bands. No credits, no relief, and a pension contribution does not reduce it.

PRSI

Social insurance

Not really a tax: it buys entitlement to Illness Benefit, Jobseeker’s Benefit and the State Pension. Nothing below €352 a week.

NET

What actually lands

Gross minus the three deductions, plus anything you have agreed to — pension, bike-to-work, union dues.

%

Your next euro

The rate on additional pay. It is what decides whether overtime is worth it, and it is always higher than your average rate.

€/h

Your real hourly rate

Net pay divided by every hour you are away from home, unpaid breaks included. Usually a good deal lower than the rate on your contract.

Where do these figures come from?

Rates, bands, credits and labour rules live in one versioned file, each with its official source and the date a person checked it. Nothing updates itself.

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A worked example: €14.50 an hour with a 30-minute unpaid break

39 paid hours a week, plus a 30-minute unpaid break each of 5 days, 52 weeks.

Hours at work each week41.5 h
Paid hours after unpaid breaks39 h
Gross a week€565.50
Your real rate per hour at work€13.63

Over a year that is €29,406 gross.

How to read it

Thirty minutes a day is two and a half hours a week you are at work and not paid for — €1,885 a year of your time at this rate. Unpaid breaks are lawful and most contracts have them, so this is not money you are owed. The point of the number is that "€14.50 an hour" and €13.63 — what you actually earn per hour you are there — are different figures, and the second is the one to compare between two jobs. It is also the figure the minimum-wage check uses.

The figures in this example are produced by the same engine as the calculator above, using the 2026 tax year data. If a rule changes, they change here too.

Hourly wage converter

Move between an hourly rate and a yearly salary in either direction. If your breaks are unpaid, this also shows your real rate per hour spent at the workplace — the number that matters when you are comparing a job with a 30-minute unpaid break against one without.

This is an estimate

The result is based on the figures you entered and the rules published for the selected tax year. Your actual pay depends on your Revenue record, your contract and your employer’s payroll.

Common questions

How do I turn an hourly rate into a yearly salary?
Multiply the hourly rate by your paid hours in a week, then by the number of paid weeks in the year — 52 for most jobs. A 39-hour week at €15 an hour is €585 a week and €30,420 a year before tax.
Should I count unpaid breaks as working time?
Not for pay. Statutory rest breaks are not working time and there is no legal right to be paid for them. They still cost you time, which is why this tool shows both rates.
Why is a monthly salary not four weekly wages?
A year has about 4.33 weeks per month, not 4. Dividing the annual figure by twelve is the only reliable way to get a monthly number.

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