About
How income.ie works
income.ie is ireland's home for understanding what you actually earn. We build free, accurate calculators and reference pages on Irish pay and tax, and we show the source and date behind every figure.
What we do
We turn the rules of the Irish tax system into tools that answer real questions: what you take home, where your income ranks, what a job pays, and what the State would give you if you could not work. The take-home calculator is the heart of the site; everything else builds on it.
How we source figures
This is Your-Money content, so accuracy is the product. Our standard:
- One source of truth for tax. Every rate, band and credit lives in a single 2026 configuration file, drawn from Revenue, Citizens Information and Budget 2026 measures. Take-home figures are computed from it, never typed in by hand, so they stay correct after each Budget.
- Official scales for public-sector pay. HSE, teacher, civil service and Garda figures come from government circulars and consolidated scales, cited with their effective date.
- Named guides for private pay. Private-sector salary ranges come from a recruiter salary guide, and we say so.
- Stated methodology for percentiles. Income percentiles are derived from CSO Distribution of Earnings 2024 and the published spread; the method is shown on the page, and we mark figures that are modelled rather than read from a full table.
- A date on everything. Each page carries the date its figures were last reviewed.
Our editorial line
We give guidance, not advice. We tell you what the rules are and what the numbers say; we do not tell you what to do with your money. For decisions that matter — a pension, a mortgage, income protection — talk to a qualified adviser or to Revenue.
Privacy
The calculators run entirely in your browser. Nothing you enter is sent to a server, stored, or needed to sign up. There is no account and no paywall.
How we're funded
Some pages link to regulated partners — income-protection brokers, mortgage brokers and tax-refund services. Where we earn a commission, it is labelled, and it never changes what you pay. We only place these links after a calculator result, never in front of it, and never on a page where they would get in the way of the answer you came for.