01 · Scope
What is calculated
The calculator estimates monthly remuneration for officials and temporary agents on the AD/AST scale, AST/SC staff, and contract agents in function groups I to IV. It starts with a published monthly basic salary for one grade and step.
All output is indicative. The employing institution remains responsible for determining grade, step, entitlements, taxable basis and final payroll.
02 · Gross remuneration
Basic salary and allowances
Working time first scales the basic salary. Household allowance is modeled as 2% of scaled basic salary plus the published fixed amount. Child, education and preschool allowances use their published monthly amounts.
Residence basis = basic salary + household allowance + dependent-child allowance
Expatriation = max(16% × residence basis, published minimum)
Foreign residence = 4% × residence basis
The duty-station correction coefficient is applied after modeled allowances have been added.
Gross estimate = (basic salary + allowances) × correction coefficient
03 · Contributions
Pension and insurance
Pension, health and accident contributions are applied to the correction-adjusted basic salary. Temporary and contract agents also receive an unemployment contribution above the relevant published abatement.
Core contributions = pension + health insurance + accident insurance + applicable unemployment contribution
04 · Tax and levy
Progressive EU tax estimate
The estimator applies each published rate only to the part of taxable monthly pay falling inside that band. Core contributions are removed before the progressive bands are applied.
For non-contract staff in grade 9 or above, the special levy is modeled after core deductions and tax, above the published allowance.
Net estimate = gross remuneration − core contributions − estimated EU tax − special levy
05 · Limits
What is not modeled
Individual tax coefficients, every family-related abatement, transfer of pension rights, national deductions, payment timing, retroactive adjustments, place-of-origin decisions and institution-specific payroll treatment are outside the calculator.
School-age and preschool counts are treated as subsets of dependent children. The interface prevents the two subsets from exceeding the total number of dependent children.
06 · Sources
Published data
Salary scales, coefficients and standard amounts come from Official Journal C/2025/6564, published 11 Dec 2025 and effective 01 Jul 2025.
The calculation structure is cross-checked against the EIGE contract salary calculator 2024. My EU Salary last reviewed the implemented data on 02 Aug 2026.