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Pay and tax, country by country
114 countries compared at the same purchasing power, each run through its own official calculator. The rankings update themselves every day.
Barbados isn't in these rankings yet: it still needs a take-home pay calculator that fits the comparison.
1of 114Belgium · 2,489 a monthSee the rankingMiddle salary · 30,000 a yearTax Freedom Day by country1of 114Belgium · 2 JanuarySee the rankingFrom 30,000 to 75,000 · Middle salary · High salaryHow much of a pay raise is kept
1of 114Qatar · 93 of every 100See the rankingCC BY 4.0
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The numbers behind these rankings, country by country, in JSON and CSV. Updated every day.
CC BY 4.0 licence: free to use, reproduce and publish with credit to CalcularYa and a link to this page.
Suggested citation
CalcularYa (2026). Country rankings. https://calcularya.com/bb/country-rankings
How it's built
Every country goes through its official take-home pay calculator, with today's rules. Then they're compared at the same purchasing power.
- Reference salaries: 12,000, 30,000 and 75,000 international dollars gross a year.
- A single person with no children, using the default values of each country's calculator.
- Take-home pay is what's left after income tax and the employee's own contributions. It leaves out sales tax and what the employer pays.
- A 13th-month salary or other mandatory extra pay is spread over the year as each country's law says.
- In the United States no state or local income tax is added: only federal tax and payroll contributions.
- To carry your salary to another country we use purchasing power parity (PPP): the same standard of living, not today's exchange rate.
- Argentina's PPP is brought forward with INDEC's consumer price index, because the World Bank only publishes it up to 2021.
- Your freedom day spreads your tax over the year from 1 January. If 30% of your pay goes in tax, you work for the government 30% of the year.
- Pay that goes furthest. Monthly take-home pay is the average over 12 months, in international dollars.
- Tax Freedom Day. The date spreads the tax over the year from 1 January: with a 30% tax burden, 30% of the year is spent working for the state.
- What's kept from a raise. This is the marginal rate between two salaries: the share of the raise that goes in tax and contributions.
- Two countries with the same value in the table share the rank, and the next one skips (1, 2, 2, 4).
- The change in rank is measured against the snapshot of the ranking saved each month. Without last month's snapshot, it isn't shown.
- The grid is rebuilt every day with each country's current data. A new country joins as soon as its calculator is live.
Purchasing power parity
World Bank, indicator PA.NUS.PRVT.PP, latest year available 2025.
Checked on 23 October 2026.
See the sourceEach country's source
Every row uses that country's take-home pay calculator and its official data.
Albania
Algeria
Angola
Argentina
Armenia
Australia
Austria
Bangladesh- Belgium
Benin
Bhutan
Bolivia
Botswana
Brazil
Brunei
Bulgaria
Burkina Faso
Cameroon
Canada
Cape Verde
Chile
China
Colombia
Costa Rica
Côte d’Ivoire
Croatia
Cyprus
Czechia
Denmark
Dominican Republic
Ecuador
Egypt
El Salvador
Estonia
Ethiopia
Fiji
Finland
France
Gambia
Georgia
Germany
Ghana
Greece
Guatemala
Hong Kong SAR China
Hungary
Iceland
India
Indonesia
Ireland
Israel
Italy
Jamaica
Japan
Jordan
Kazakhstan
Kenya
Kuwait
Kyrgyzstan
Latvia
Lesotho
Liberia
Luxembourg
Malawi
Mauritania
Mauritius
Mexico
Moldova
Mongolia
Montenegro
Mozambique
Namibia
Nepal
Netherlands
New Zealand
Nicaragua
Nigeria
Norway
Oman
Pakistan
Panama
Paraguay
Peru
Philippines
Poland
Portugal- Qatar
Romania
Rwanda
Saudi Arabia
Serbia
Seychelles
Singapore
Slovakia
Slovenia
South Africa
South Korea
Spain
Sri Lanka
Suriname
Sweden
Tajikistan
Tanzania
Thailand
Togo
Trinidad & Tobago
Tunisia
Türkiye
Uganda
Ukraine
United Kingdom
United States
Uruguay
Uzbekistan