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Weekly Pay Calculator Australia

Estimate weekly take-home pay in Australia from salary, hourly work, fortnightly pay or annual income.

Most people start here

Enter your gross pay, choose how often that number is paid, then check the after-tax result in weekly, fortnightly, monthly or annual view.

Enter your pay$How this number is paid

Show result asFinancial yearResidencyEmployment basis

HELP, VSL or study debtInclude compulsory repayment thresholds for the selected year.Salary package includes employer superSeparate cash salary from super before tax is estimated.

Advanced options(salary sacrifice, novated lease, partner income, MLS, Div 293)Open this if your payslip has packaging, deductions, HELP debt or household Medicare settings.

Other pre-tax deductions$Other post-tax deductions$Salary sacrifice to super$Extra reportable super$Novated lease pre-tax$Novated lease post-tax$Household typePartner income$DependantsChild support paid$Child support received$Medicare levy exemptionUse only if you know an exemption applies.Private hospital coverUsed for the annual Medicare levy surcharge estimate.

Division 293 and Medicare levy surcharge are shown as annual tax-time estimates. They are not removed from regular take-home pay because payroll usually does not withhold them as ordinary fortnightly tax.

Estimated take-home pay

$1,490

per weekly

Annual net

$77,480

Retained

77.5%

MLS estimate

Div 293 estimate

Estimate summary

On a gross cash salary of $100,000, your estimated take-home pay is $77,480 per year, or $1,490 weekly. This regular-pay estimate includes income tax and the standard Medicare levy. No HELP repayment is included. You keep about 77.5% of gross cash pay after the modelled deductions. Your marginal tax rate is 30%, while your effective tax rate is 22.5%. Employer super is shown separately because it is normally paid into your super fund rather than your bank account.

Effective tax rate22.5%Employer super$12,000Budget after child support$1,490

Use this as a planning number. Your real payslip can move if payroll settings, deductions, private health, or study debt details differ.

Annual breakdown

You keep77.5%$77,480

Visual split of annual cash income after modelled tax, repayments and deductions.

Take-home

77.5%

$77,480

Income tax

20.5%

$20,520

Medicare

$2,000

HELP

Deductions

Tax band visual

This shows how much of your taxable income falls into each marginal tax band before Medicare, HELP and other adjustments.

$0-$18,200

$18,200 at 0% = $0

$18,200-$45,000

$26,800 at 15% = $4,020

$45,000-$135,000

$55,000 at 30% = $16,500

Gross cash income$100,000

Taxable income$100,000

HELP repayment income$100,000

Income tax-$20,520

Medicare levy-$2,000

HELP repayment-$0

Salary sacrifice to super-$0

Novated lease pre-tax-$0

Novated lease post-tax-$0

Other deductions-$0

Net income$77,480

Budget after child support$77,480

MLS annual estimate-$0

Division 293 annual estimate-$0

Employer super$12,000

Concessional super total$12,000

Total package$112,000

Take-home by frequency

Annual

$77,480

Monthly

$6,457

Fortnightly

$2,980

Weekly

$1,490

Hourly

$39.21

Advanced scenario insights

What changes the real-world result?

Salary packaging

Not added

Add salary sacrifice, reportable super or novated lease deductions to test a packaged-pay scenario.

Tax-time liabilities

No MLS or Division 293 estimate is currently triggered by the inputs.

Household cashflow

$77,480

Add partner income or child support cashflow to make the result more household-aware.

Next frontier

Centrelink, child support assessments and support-service eligibility use detailed rules beyond a salary calculator. This page now gives the wage, tax and household-cashflow side of the picture, and the support-payment scenario tool should build on these inputs next.

Assumptions and trace

2026-27 Australian financial year.
Australian resident tax rates are used.
Standard 2% Medicare levy applied. Low-income reductions, exemptions and surcharge are not modelled in this first release.
No HELP, VSL, SSL or similar study debt repayment is included.
Employer super is shown separately from bank-account pay.
No salary sacrifice to super is included.
No novated lease deduction is included.
Medicare levy surcharge and Division 293 are shown as annual tax-time estimates and are not subtracted from regular take-home pay.
No child support cashflow is included.
Offsets, Centrelink income tests, family tax benefits and detailed private health insurance rules are not yet fully modelled.

Input annualised

Converted from the entered income frequency.

Tax bracket

Applies above $45,000.

Income tax

Calculated from the selected financial-year tax brackets.

Medicare levy

Standard 2% Medicare levy applied. Low-income reductions, exemptions and surcharge are not modelled in this first release.

HELP repayment

Not applied.

MLS estimate

Annual Medicare levy surcharge estimate only; not deducted from regular pay.

Division 293 estimate

Annual estimate for high-income concessional super contributions.

Employer super

Shown separately because it usually goes to a super fund.

How to use this page

This page is for people who get paid every week or think about money week by week. It turns a bigger salary number into a weekly take-home estimate you can actually use.

Enter your income, then keep the result view on weekly so the number matches your weekly budget.

What this estimate includes

Australian financial-year tax brackets

Standard Medicare levy assumption

HELP repayment toggle

Employer super shown separately

Annual, monthly, fortnightly and weekly views

Plain-English assumptions and trace

Frequently asked questions

Can I use this if I know my annual salary but want a weekly result?

Yes. Enter your annual salary and use the weekly result view to estimate your weekly take-home pay.

Why does weekly pay matter?

Weekly pay is often the easiest way to compare shift work, casual work, short rosters and day-to-day spending.