About Wage Calculator

Wage Calculator works out what an Australian wage is actually worth after tax. It exists because pay is quoted in one unit and lived in another: a job is advertised as a yearly salary, a roster is worked in hours, and rent comes out fortnightly.

The site is run by a small independent team in Australia. We are not accountants and we do not give personal tax advice. What we do is read the primary sources carefully, implement them exactly, test the arithmetic, and show our working. Where a figure needs professional judgement rather than arithmetic, we say so and point you to the ATO or a registered tax agent.

Every number is checked against its primary source before it ships. Olivia Harper reviews the calculators and the rates behind them, and each page she has checked carries her name and the date she checked it.

Olivia Harper

12 years in Australian payroll

Australian Payroll & Tax Specialist

Olivia has spent twelve years in Australian payroll, most of it running pay runs across retail, hospitality and aged care rosters, where the classification you sit in decides the number. She reads the award clause and the ATO schedule directly rather than working from a summary of either.

Her role is to check that the rates and tax figures we publish match the award clause or ATO schedule they came from, and that the wording around them describes how the rule actually applies to a real roster or pay run.

Covers: Australian modern awards, Award minimum wages, Penalty rates, Casual loading, PAYG withholding, Medicare levy, Superannuation guarantee, Take-home pay after tax.

Advertising. The calculators are free, there is no account to create, no email gate, and no lead form. We do not sell your details, because we do not collect them.

Every calculation runs in your browser. Salary figures are never transmitted to a server, which means we could not sell or leak them even if we wanted to. See the Privacy Policy.