What is my hourly wage?
€7.90 net per paid hour
Example: €2,000 gross a month, 40 hours a week. For each hour actually worked: €8.90.
Quick answers with the 2026 rules. Each one opens a page with the calculator already set up for it and a short article; change the inputs there for your own answer.
Gross a month → net a month. Single, aged 35, no children, 12 salaries a year, 2026 rules.
€7.90 net per paid hour
Example: €2,000 gross a month, 40 hours a week. For each hour actually worked: €8.90.
€799 net a month
€1,050 gross a month, 12 salaries a year.
€1,062 net a month
Example: €2,000 gross full-time. You keep 77.5% of the full-time net pay for 75% of the hours.
€1,014 a month for the first 90 days (60% of your gross pay, at most €1,014), then 35% and 30%, for 330 days in total
Example: €2,000 gross a month, age 35, single. Total €7,315.
From 1 months to 3 months
By years with the employer: 2 months after 5 years, 2.5 months after 10.
At 63, or from 60 with a cut
Born in 1991: earliest pension at 60 with a 12.0% cut; full pension at 63.
€1,000 from 2016 = €1,446 today
Prices rose 44.6% since 2016, by the official consumer price index. Any year since 2006.