Irish payslip checker
Compare your payslip with what you expected.
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Updated for tax year 2026This calculator runs in your browser and needs JavaScript, which is switched off right now. Nothing has gone wrong. Compare your payslip with what you expected. Below the form you will find how the calculation works and the official sources, and that reads without JavaScript.
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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.
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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.
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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Why pay for a calculator?
Because the rules move. Rates, bands and credits change every Budget, and PRSI changed part-way through 2026. Premium is what pays for somebody to check each figure against Revenue and keep the tools current.
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A worked example: checking a weekly payslip that does not add up
39 hours at €15, 4 hours overtime at 1.5×, payslip reports €675 gross.
| What the hours come to | €675.00 |
|---|---|
| What the payslip says | €660.00 |
| Difference | -€15.00 |
A €15 gap is exactly one normal hour at this rate — usually a rota that recorded 38 hours instead of 39, not a tax error.
How to read it
Start with gross, not net. Gross is arithmetic you can check yourself: hours × rate, plus premiums. Net is not, because it depends on your tax credits and cut-off point, which are on your Revenue record and not on the payslip. So if gross is wrong, it is a rota or rate problem and you raise it with your manager; if gross is right and net looks odd, it is usually a tax-credit problem and you check your details in Revenue’s myAccount. Mixing the two is why these conversations go nowhere.
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.
Payslip checker
Enter the hours you worked and then the figures exactly as they appear on your payslip. This compares the two and tells you which lines look right, which look off, and what the usual explanations are. It cannot see your Revenue record, so it never concludes that a payslip is wrong — it points you at the lines worth asking about.
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.