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.

The amount you want to see land each payment, after Social Security and income tax.
Personal and family situation (optional)
For the age-based minimums (65 and 75).

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.

Go to the net-salary calculator