Net-to-gross salary calculator
Want to take home a specific net amount? Enter the net pay you're after and we calculate the gross salary you need to ask for, using the same withholding engine as the net-salary calculator.
How it is calculated
There's no direct formula from net to gross: the income-tax withholding itself depends on the gross. We try successive gross salaries and adjust up or down until the resulting net matches your target, to the cent.
- Search: we start from a gross figure and adjust it up or down depending on whether the resulting net lands below or above your target, until it converges.
- Same engine: we use the exact same Social Security and income-tax calculation as the net-salary calculator, so the result is consistent with it.