Compare two job offers in Ireland
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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.
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.
Universal Social Charge
A separate charge on your gross pay, in bands. No credits, no relief, and a pension contribution does not reduce it.
Social insurance
Not really a tax: it buys entitlement to Illness Benefit, Jobseeker’s Benefit and the State Pension. Nothing below €352 a week.
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.
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.
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A worked example: €38,000 with a 35-minute commute vs €35,500 nearby
Both single, no pension, five days a week.
| Offer A: €38,000 gross → net | €32,131.18 |
|---|---|
| Offer B: €35,500 gross → net | €30,311.18 |
| Difference in the hand | €1,820.00 |
The gap in gross is €2,500; after tax it is €1,820.00. The longer commute costs about 268 hours a year.
How to read it
A €2,500 difference in gross is not a €2,500 difference in your pocket: because the extra sits above the standard-rate band, the deductions on it are heavier and only €1,820.00 reaches you. Set against roughly 268 hours a year of extra commuting, that is about €6.78 an hour of your own time. Whether that is worth it is your call — but it is a much smaller number than the headline suggests, and that is the point of comparing net rather than gross.
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.
Job offer comparison
A higher hourly rate can still leave you worse off once commuting, unpaid breaks and the cost of getting to work are counted. Enter both offers and this compares them on what you actually keep, how much of your life each one takes, and how the conditions stack up.
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.