Payroll Calculations
How pay, taxes, contributions, and statutory figures are calculated across different markets.
The UK minimum wage is an hourly floor that applies to salaried pay
The UK's minimum wage is set each year by the government on the advice of the Low Pay Commission, and it is an hourly rate that varies by age. For the 2026-27 tax year, from 1 April 2026, the top rate, the National…
Niko Nurmentaus
Product Lead
How Portugal taxes benefits in kind, and where the exemptions apply
A meal card and a company car are both pay. Portuguese tax law treats them that way by default: a benefit in kind (rendimento em espécie, non-cash remuneration provided because of the job) is employment income in…
Mehmood Deshmukh
CTO & Co-Founder
ZUS in Poland: how social-security contributions split between employer and employee, and the annual cap on pension and disability
An employee's gross salary is not the full cost of employing them in Poland. Social-security contributions are split between employer and employee: the employer pays its share in addition to the gross salary, and the…
Greg Miaskiewicz
CEO & Co-Founder
How German wage tax is calculated: Lohnsteuer from gross to net
Lohnsteuer (German wage tax) is a prepayment of the employee's annual income tax (Einkommensteuer), not a flat percentage of gross pay. Each month the employer withholds an estimate of the annual income tax and remits…
Mehmood Deshmukh
CTO & Co-Founder
Portugal's minimum wage in 2026: why a worker on €920 costs more than €920 times twelve
Pricing a Portuguese employee is where payroll teams new to the country get the annual cost wrong. The instinct is to annualize the way most countries work: monthly wage times twelve, plus employer social security. In…
Niko Nurmentaus
Product Lead
