UK take-home pay calculator (2025-26)
Your UK take-home pay is your gross minus income tax (after the personal allowance) and employee National Insurance, plus any pension contribution you make.
Worked example: with Gross annual salary of 35,000 GBP, this model computes Net / month of 2,393.30 GBP. See the full breakdown.
✓ Verified against 2 self-test cases Updated for 2025-26 · sources checked 2026-08-02
How take-home pay in United Kingdom is calculated
For the 2025-26 tax year (rest of the UK), everyone starts with a 12,570 GBP personal allowance — the slice of income taxed at 0%. Above 100,000 GBP that allowance tapers away by 1 GBP for every 2 GBP of income, disappearing entirely by 125,140 GBP.
Income above the allowance is taxed at 20% up to the basic-rate limit, 40% in the higher band, and 45% at the top. Employee National Insurance is charged separately on gross earnings: 8% between the primary threshold and the upper earnings limit, then 2% above it.
A workplace pension contribution reduces both your taxable income and your take-home, so the calculator exposes it as a percentage. Scotland runs its own income-tax bands; this page models the rest-of-UK rates. Estimates only — not tax advice.
Worked example
| Gross annual salary (GBP) | 35000 |
|---|---|
| Pension contribution (fraction, e.g. 0.05) | 0 |
| Pension Contribution | 0 |
| Adjusted Income | 35000 |
| Personal allowance ✓ | 12570 |
| Taxable income ✓ | 22430 |
| Income tax ✓ | 4486 |
| National Insurance ✓ | 1794.4 |
| Net / year ✓ | 28719.6 |
| Net / month ✓ | 2393.3 |
Every row is computed by the engine from the inputs above. Rows marked ✓ are additionally pinned by a published self-test vector.
Frequently asked questions
How much is take-home pay on £35,000 in the UK?
On a 35,000 GBP salary the personal allowance covers the first 12,570 GBP, income tax at 20% applies to the remaining 22,430 GBP, and employee National Insurance is charged at 8% between the thresholds. The calculator shows the exact monthly and annual net.
What is the £100,000 personal allowance trap?
Above 100,000 GBP your personal allowance falls by 1 GBP for every 2 GBP earned, which pushes the effective marginal rate on that band to 60%. Enter a salary above 100,000 GBP to watch the allowance shrink.
Does this include Scottish income tax?
No — this page uses the rest-of-UK bands. Scotland has its own five-band scale with different thresholds; a Scottish variant is a planned addition.
Sources
- GOV.UK — Income Tax rates and allowances · checked 2026-08-02
- GOV.UK — NI rates & thresholds 2025-26 · checked 2026-08-02
Estimate. Not tax advice. The verification badge means the model reproduces the stated formula through 2 self-test cases; the sources support that the formula matches the rules.
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