Enter one salary figure and see how it nets out after tax in all three countries, side by side.
The US, UK, and Australian results update instantly below. No currency conversion is applied — each country's result treats the number above as that amount in its own currency.
Disclaimer
This compares national-level tax systems only (no state/local tax, no currency conversion, no cost-of-living adjustment). Results are estimates for educational purposes and do not constitute financial or tax advice.
No — the number you enter is applied as that same amount in each country's own currency (e.g. 80,000 as $80,000, £80,000, and A$80,000). This isolates how each tax system treats a salary, without also mixing in exchange-rate questions.
No. The US figure is federal income tax plus Social Security and Medicare only — state and local income taxes vary too much to include generically. The UK and Australian figures use each country's national income tax and National Insurance / Medicare Levy rules, which don't have a state-level layer the way the US does.
Tax systems are structured very differently — the US progressive federal brackets, UK's National Insurance on top of income tax, and Australia's tax-free threshold up to $18,200 all produce different results at different income levels. Try a few different amounts — the order can change as the salary figure goes up.
This reuses the exact same calculation engines as the standalone Paycheck, UK Income Tax, and Australian Income Tax calculators on this site — nothing is re-derived or approximated for this comparison.
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