Same salary in five countries

The salary you enter is converted into each country’s currency using indicative market rates, then the country calculator is run on that local amount. Tax is never calculated on the USD figure directly; it is calculated in the local currency and converted back for comparison.

Rates come from a public currency feed that aggregates central-bank reference rates. The page ships with a dated snapshot so it works offline, and refreshes from the feed in your browser when it can. The date of the rates in use is always shown.

No. Converting a salary tells you what the same nominal amount is worth in another currency, not what it buys. A salary converted to PKR at market rates is not equivalent to the same purchasing power in Pakistan, because prices differ.

Each country applies its own bands, allowances and social contributions, so the effective rate differs at every income level. The comparison shows the effective rate and the tax in local currency so you can see where the difference comes from.

Because employee contributions are deducted as well as tax. China’s calculator subtracts social insurance and housing fund before individual income tax; a pension or 401(k) can do the same in the UK and US. The deductions column shows the amount, and take-home = gross − tax − deductions.