What is my hourly wage?
€7.36 net per paid hour
Example: €2,000 gross a month, 40 hours a week. For each hour actually worked: €8.32.
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.
€7.36 net per paid hour
Example: €2,000 gross a month, 40 hours a week. For each hour actually worked: €8.32.
€847 net a month
€1,153 gross a month, 12 salaries a year.
€1,023 net a month
Example: €2,000 gross full-time. You keep 80.1% of the full-time net pay for 75% of the hours.
€1,073 a month in months 1–3, then less, for up to 9 months (€172.95 + 45% / 35% / 25% of insured income; €370–€1,618.51; rules from 1 July 2026)
Example: €2,000 gross a month, age 35, single. Total €7,857.
1 month (2 months shortly before pension or with young children)
The same whatever the length of service.
At 65, or from 60 with a cut
Born in 1991: earliest pension at 60 with a 19.2% cut; full pension at 65.
€1,000 from 2016 = €1,623 today
Prices rose 62.3% since 2016, by the official consumer price index. Any year since 2006.