What's New

Latest updates to the salary calculator

v0.3.1Latest
Mar 6, 2026
Improvements
  • Updated theme with new color palette and typography for improved visual consistency
  • Refined OpenGraph and Twitter card generation for better social media previews
  • Enhanced bento-style design with brand colors throughout the interface
  • Disabled login and feedback features via feature flags to resolve production issues
v0.3.0
Mar 3, 2026
Improvements
  • Sign in with Google to sync your saved country selections and settings across devices
  • Feedback button lets you send quick comments directly from the calculator
  • New Changelog page at /changelog shows a full history of updates
  • Country comparison is now capped at 8 columns for a cleaner layout on wide screens
  • Analytics pipeline upgraded to capture usage patterns and improve the tool over time
v0.2.11
Mar 1, 2026

Six new countries join the calculator, bringing total coverage to 27 countries with 2026 tax data for all major destinations.

New Countries
🇦🇹Austria🇫🇮Finland🇬🇷Greece🇭🇰Hong Kong🇲🇽Mexico🇵🇱Poland
New Variants
  • 🇦🇹Austria — Researcher/Scientist Tax Relief (Zuzugsfreibetrag)
  • 🇦🇺Australia — Working Holiday Maker
  • 🇫🇮Finland — Key Employee (Avainhenkilovero)
  • 🇬🇧United Kingdom — Scotland
  • 🇬🇷Greece — Article 5C - 50% Tax Exemption
  • 🇯🇵Japan — Non-Resident (20.42% Flat Rate)
  • 🇲🇽Mexico — Non-Resident
  • 🇳🇿New Zealand — Non-Resident
  • 🇵🇱Poland — B2B Flat Tax 19% (Podatek liniowy)
  • 🇵🇱Poland — B2B Lump Sum IT (Ryczalt 12%)
  • 🇵🇱Poland — Return Relief (Ulga na powrot)
Tax Year Data
  • 2026: 🇦🇪 United Arab Emirates, 🇦🇺 Australia, 🇬🇧 United Kingdom, 🇯🇵 Japan, 🇳🇿 New Zealand
Improvements
  • The country configuration panel now opens as a full-height side sheet on desktop and a bottom drawer on mobile, making it much easier to set up a destination on a phone without the keyboard covering inputs
  • Tax notices and warnings in the configuration panel are now shown inline with expandable detail, so you can read the full context without losing your place in the form
  • Official tax sources and methodology notes for each country are now accessible directly from the configuration panel, letting you verify the numbers behind a calculation
  • A bug report button has been added to the calculator toolbar, pre-filling a GitHub issue with the current page URL so you can flag calculation errors in seconds
  • Landing page preset cards now link directly to the correct calculator configuration, including regional variants such as the Dutch 30% Ruling in the Expat Havens preset
  • Portugal 2026 now correctly applies the mandatory specific employment income deduction (dedução específica) — the greater of €4,104 or 11% of gross — before computing IRS, matching how Portuguese tax law actually works
  • Italy 2026 now models the INPS contribution cut (cuneo fiscale), which reduces employee social security rates for lower and middle earners in line with 2026 legislation
Fixes
  • Corrected the Spain Beckham Law calculation: the personal allowance credit and intermediate deduction node are now properly removed under the flat-rate regime, so net income figures match the actual 24%/47% structure
v0.2.10
Feb 25, 2026
Improvements
  • The comparison view now shows a dedicated card layout on mobile instead of a cramped horizontal table, making it much easier to read results on a phone
  • A TL;DR summary bar appears at the top of the mobile comparison view, letting you see all net salaries and effective rates at a glance and tap to scroll to any country card
  • When comparing countries with different currencies, net salaries are now shown in a common base currency alongside the original local amount, so you can make apples-to-apples comparisons
  • Salary sync across destinations now fetches all currency conversions in a single batch instead of one request per country, making updates faster when you type a new gross salary
  • Exchange rate lookups are now cached in the browser for one hour and de-duplicated, so switching between currencies does not trigger redundant network requests
  • The add-destination wizard form fields now stack to a single column on small screens, preventing cramped two-column layouts on narrow devices
  • The sticky row-label column in the desktop comparison table now has a subtle shadow to visually separate it from the scrollable data columns
v0.2.9
Feb 24, 2026

The calculator now uses a side-by-side comparison table so you can scan all countries and their tax breakdowns in a single glance.

Improvements
  • Replaced the old column-per-country layout with a structured comparison table: rows are tax categories, columns are destinations, making it easy to compare line items across countries at a glance
  • Tax breakdown rows (income tax, contributions, credits, etc.) are now collapsible — click a category to expand it and see the individual line items for every country simultaneously
  • The row-label column stays fixed when you scroll horizontally, so you always know which row you are looking at even with four destinations open
  • The 'Best' country is highlighted in green across every row of the table, not just the total, making it visually obvious which destination wins
  • Country configuration now opens in a focused wizard panel (a side sheet on desktop, a bottom drawer on mobile) instead of editing inline, reducing clutter while you compare
  • The landing page hero section was refreshed with a cleaner feature grid and updated copy
v0.2.8
Feb 22, 2026

2026 tax data for 14 countries, plus a new destination wizard that makes it much easier to add and edit countries in your comparison

New Variants
  • 🇳🇱Netherlands — 30% Ruling
  • 🇫🇷France — Impatrié (Article 155B)
  • 🇫🇷France — Portage Salarial
  • 🇮🇪Ireland — SARP (Special Assignee Relief Programme)
  • 🇩🇰Denmark — Researcher Tax Scheme (Forskerordning)
  • 🇪🇸Spain — Beckham Law
  • 🇰🇷South Korea — Foreign Flat Tax (19%)
  • 🇵🇹Portugal — IFICI (Non-Habitual Resident successor)
  • 🇸🇪Sweden — Expert Tax (30% exemption)
Tax Year Data
  • 2026: 🇨🇦 Canada, 🇨🇭 Switzerland, 🇩🇪 Germany, 🇩🇰 Denmark, 🇪🇸 Spain, 🇫🇷 France, 🇮🇪 Ireland, 🇰🇷 South Korea, 🇳🇱 Netherlands, 🇳🇴 Norway, 🇵🇹 Portugal, 🇸🇪 Sweden, 🇸🇬 Singapore, 🇺🇸 United States
Improvements
  • A new destination wizard replaces the old inline form — a 3-step dialog guides you through country, tax options, and living costs, making it much easier to add or edit a destination
  • You can now toggle between a single shared gross salary for all destinations or individual salaries per country, with a confirmation step to avoid accidental changes
  • The edit (pencil) button in each country header opens the wizard so you can reconfigure any destination without removing and re-adding it
  • Country auto-detection now reads your timezone first (physical location) rather than your browser language, so an English-language browser in the Netherlands correctly defaults to the Netherlands
  • Salary amounts entered for one destination are automatically converted to the local currency when you add a new destination with a different currency
v0.2.7
Feb 22, 2026

Enter your monthly living costs to see true disposable income side-by-side across countries, and enter country-specific deductions to get exact after-tax figures.

Improvements
  • You can now enter monthly living costs — rent, groceries, healthcare, transport, and more — directly in each country column. The calculator shows your disposable income (net salary minus annual costs) so you can compare how far your take-home pay actually goes in each location
  • When any column has living-cost data, the best-country highlight uses disposable income instead of raw net salary, giving you a more honest comparison
  • Netherlands: mortgage interest (hypotheekrente), pension and annuity contributions (lijfrentepremies), and out-of-pocket healthcare costs can now be entered as optional deductions. Each deduction shows exactly how much it saves you in taxes per year
  • Netherlands: the mortgage interest deduction is correctly capped at the 37.48% rate for top-bracket earners, matching the Dutch aftrekbeperking rule
  • Deduction fields are grouped logically — for example, mortgage start year appears as a sub-field under mortgage interest — keeping the form clean when you do not need extra detail
  • A bug in the generic tax bracket engine that caused it to apply a hardcoded German tax formula to all countries has been fixed. Bracket calculations now use only the rates defined in each country's configuration
  • A second bracket-tax bug where the base amount was counted multiple times across brackets has been fixed, improving accuracy for all multi-bracket tax calculations
  • The hero section now cycles through real city names — Amsterdam, Berlin, Zurich, London, and others — so the core question reads naturally as you consider your next move
v0.2.4
Feb 22, 2026
Improvements
  • New salary mode toggle: choose "Same salary" to apply one gross figure across all destinations with automatic currency conversion, or "Local salaries" to enter independent offers per destination
  • Adding a new destination in Same salary mode pre-fills the gross amount and re-converts it to the correct currency once you pick a country
  • Renamed "Add Country" to "Add Destination" throughout the interface for clearer language
v0.2.0
Jan 29, 2026

Initial public launch — gross-to-net salary calculator for 21 countries with expat and special-regime variants

New Countries
🇦🇪United Arab Emirates🇦🇺Australia🇧🇬Bulgaria🇨🇦Canada🇨🇭Switzerland🇩🇪Germany🇩🇰Denmark🇪🇸Spain🇫🇷France🇬🇧United Kingdom🇮🇪Ireland🇮🇹Italy🇯🇵Japan🇰🇷South Korea🇳🇱Netherlands🇳🇴Norway🇳🇿New Zealand🇵🇹Portugal🇸🇪Sweden🇸🇬Singapore🇺🇸United States
New Variants
  • 🇦🇺Australia — Non-Resident
  • 🇨🇦Canada — Alberta
  • 🇨🇦Canada — British Columbia
  • 🇨🇦Canada — Manitoba
  • 🇨🇦Canada — New Brunswick
  • 🇨🇦Canada — Newfoundland
  • 🇨🇦Canada — Nova Scotia
  • 🇨🇦Canada — Nunavut
  • 🇨🇦Canada — Northwest Territories
  • 🇨🇦Canada — Ontario
  • 🇨🇦Canada — Prince Edward Island
  • 🇨🇦Canada — Quebec
  • 🇨🇦Canada — Saskatchewan
  • 🇨🇦Canada — Yukon
  • 🇩🇰Denmark — Researcher Tax Scheme (Forskerordningen)
  • 🇪🇸Spain — Beckham Law (Special Expat Regime)
  • 🇫🇷France — Portage Salarial
  • 🇮🇪Ireland — SARP (Special Assignee Relief Programme)
  • 🇮🇹Italy — Impatriate Regime (Regime Impatriati)
  • 🇰🇷South Korea — 19% Flat Tax (Foreign Workers)
  • 🇳🇱Netherlands — 30% Ruling
  • 🇳🇴Norway — PAYE Scheme
  • 🇵🇹Portugal — IFICI (Scientific Research & Innovation)
  • 🇸🇪Sweden — Expert Tax Regime (Expertskatt)
Improvements
  • Side-by-side multi-country comparison lets you add up to several destinations and see net salary, effective rate, and tax breakdown for each at a glance
  • Salary range chart shows how your effective and marginal tax rates shift as income rises, so you can see where the next bracket kicks in
  • Tax breakdown displays each component — income tax, social contributions, and credits — separately so you can see exactly where the money goes
  • Calculation history saves past results locally in the browser, with search and the ability to name and annotate entries
  • Shareable URLs encode the full calculator state so you can send a link and others see the same countries, gross salary, and variant you configured
  • Currency normalisation converts net salaries from different countries into a common currency for apples-to-apples comparison
  • Best-destination highlight automatically marks the country with the highest net take-home in a comparison
  • All 50 US states and DC are supported via the state-tax input, covering both federal and state income tax
  • All 13 Canadian provinces and territories are available as variants, each with the correct provincial tax brackets
  • Germany supports per-state church-tax and Solidaritätszuschlag calculations across all 16 Bundesländer
  • Config-driven YAML engine means tax rules are community-maintainable and auditable without changing application code