Payroll Calculations
How pay, taxes, contributions, and statutory figures are calculated across different markets.
The German Minijob: Why It Exists and How Payroll Handles It
The Minijob is one of the most distinctly German things in payroll. It is a job deliberately kept small enough that, for the worker, gross pay and take-home pay are almost the same number. No income tax, no social-security deductions from the employee’s side...
Niko Nurmentaus
Product Lead
Mexico's Payroll Tax Is Rising, One State at a Time: The 2025–2026 ISN Increases
A company with a warehouse in one Mexican state, a sales office in another, and stores in a third pays the Impuesto Sobre Nóminas, the state payroll tax, separately in each one, at whatever rate that...
Niko Nurmentaus
Product Lead
Portugal's 2026 Payroll Figures: Minimum Wage, IAS, and Meal Allowance
Every January, Portugal updates a handful of official figures that the rest of payroll is built on. They come in separate laws, published on different dates, and each one feeds a different part of...
Mehmood Deshmukh
CTO & Co-Founder
Mexico's 2026 Employment Subsidy: A Small Credit With Three Ways to Get It Wrong
The subsidio para el empleo is one of the smallest numbers on a Mexican payslip and one of the easiest to compute incorrectly. It is a federal credit that reduces the income tax (ISR) withheld from...
Mehmood Deshmukh
CTO & Co-Founder
What Counts as Salary Now: Mexico's SBC Expansion for Cash, Food and Housing Benefits
The Salario Base de Cotización (SBC) is the single most consequential number in Mexican payroll. It is the base from which most of social security is calculated, and it feeds several contributions at...
Mehmood Deshmukh
CTO & Co-Founder
