Based on current HMRC guidance and UK PAYE rulesUpdated for the current UK tax year

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UK salary and take-home guidance

Salary Sacrifice Calculator (UK)

See how pension or salary sacrifice reduces tax and increases your real take-home efficiency.

Tax saved

£0

Monthly net change

-£208

New monthly take-home

£3,085

Decision insights

Take-home falls more slowly than the sacrificed amount

That is the point of salary sacrifice. Monthly take-home usually drops, but not by the full amount redirected, because taxable income is lower.

This is now a more strategic pay-structure decision

At higher salaries or stronger sacrifice levels, the trade-off becomes less about headline pay and more about long-term efficiency, pension growth, and threshold management.

Explore the £100k tax trap

Useful when sacrifice becomes a threshold-management decision as well as a pension one.

Compare salary outcomes

Judge whether raw salary growth or tax-efficient structure produces the better outcome.

Open the main calculator

Return to the broader salary flow with the main deduction dashboard.