Step 4 · Ireland Tax Calculator

Plan the true cost of the hire

The full employer cost of employment, and the net pay your candidate will actually see: Ireland's 2026 income tax, USC and PRSI, side by side with 2025.

The hire

Set the gross salary to see the full cost to employ, and what the employee keeps.

/ year
The true cost of a hire in Ireland is the gross salary plus employer PRSI. This shows both, and what the employee actually takes home, on 2026 rates.
At €0 the employer PRSI rate is 9.00% (lower band, weekly pay at or under 552, Jan to Sep 2026).
Your results

Your 2026 hire snapshot

Cost on top

0.00%

Employer PRSI as a share of gross pay.

Employee effective rate

0.0%

The employee's tax, USC and PRSI as a share of pay.

The employee's tax bracket

Your tax bracket

20% standard rate

€0 at 20%

€0

€0 at 40%

€0

Annual cost of this hire

€0

What this hire costs for a full year, gross salary plus employer PRSI.

Per month

€0

Per week

€0

Gross salary €0 plus employer PRSI €0, on 2026 rates.

What it costs to employ

BreakdownPer yearPer monthPer week
Employee gross salary€0€0€0
Employer PRSI€0€0€0
Total cost to employ€0€0€0

What the employee takes home

BreakdownPer yearPer monthPer week
Gross salary€0€0€0
Income tax-€0-€0-€0
USC-€0-€0-€0
PRSI-€0-€0-€0
Take-home pay€0€0€0

Estimate only, not tax advice. 2026 and 2025 figures use Revenue and Citizens Information rules (income tax bands and credits unchanged between the years; the USC 2% ceiling rose from €27,382 to €28,700). Employee take-home assumes a single person with no pension. PRSI uses the flat calendar rate each year shows on a January payslip: 4.2% for 2026 (rising to 4.35% from 1 October 2026) and 4.1% for 2025. Class A full rate assumed (the pre-1995 public-service reduced rate is not modelled). Self-employed income pays Class S at the same rate with the €650 minimum. At 66 or over, PRSI does not apply.

Official sources

Tax rates, bands and reliefs charts (Revenue)revenue.ie/en/personal-tax-credits-reliefs-and-exemptions/tax-relief-charts/index.aspxUSC standard rates and thresholds (Revenue)revenue.ie/en/jobs-and-pensions/usc/standard-rates-thresholds.aspxAge exemption and marginal relief (Revenue)revenue.ie/en/personal-tax-credits-reliefs-and-exemptions/marital-and-civil-status/exemption-and-marginal-relief/index.aspxPension tax relief limits (Revenue)revenue.ie/en/jobs-and-pensions/pension/relief/tax-relief-limits.aspxEmployee Tax Credit (Revenue)revenue.ie/en/personal-tax-credits-reliefs-and-exemptions/income-and-employment/employee-tax-credit/index.aspxEarned Income Credit (Revenue)revenue.ie/en/personal-tax-credits-reliefs-and-exemptions/income-and-employment/earned-income-credit/index.aspxCompany car benefit-in-kind (Revenue)revenue.ie/en/employing-people/benefit-in-kind-for-employers/private-use-company-cars/calculate-value-benefit.aspxPreferential loans (Revenue)revenue.ie/en/employing-people/benefit-in-kind-for-employers/other-benefits/preferential-loans.aspxMedical insurance premiums relief (Revenue)revenue.ie/en/personal-tax-credits-reliefs-and-exemptions/health-and-age/medical-insurance-premiums/index.aspxTaxation of DSP payments (Revenue)revenue.ie/en/jobs-and-pensions/taxation-of-social-welfare-payments/index.aspxResidential premises rental income relief (Revenue)revenue.ie/en/personal-tax-credits-reliefs-and-exemptions/land-and-property/rprir/index.aspxClass S PRSI for the self-employed (Citizens Information)citizensinformation.ie/en/social-welfare/irish-social-welfare-system/social-insurance-prsi/class-s-prsi/Auto-enrolment, My Future Fund (Citizens Information)citizensinformation.ie/en/money-and-tax/personal-finance/pensions/auto-enrolment/Remote working relief (Revenue)revenue.ie/en/jobs-and-pensions/eworking/calculate-allowable-remote-working-costs.aspx

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