Take-home pay across borders · 2026/27 rates

Compare take-home pay between countries

Pick what you earn and where you are thinking of going. This compares the financial part of two offers: the salary you would need there to keep what you keep now, using each country's published tax rates. It cannot tell you whether you should move.

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Add monthly living costs optional

Use your own estimates. Salary Crossing does not substitute city averages for your household.

London costs
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Dubai costs
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To keep the same, you need

AED 262,980

in Dubai, versus £75,000 in London

You keep now
£54,057
Taken here
27.9%
Taken there
0.0%

Tax versus retirement Retirement benefits stay separate from spendable take-home.

London retirement
Scheme-dependent
Dubai retirement
Depends on tenure
See tax sources and other salaries →

A salary match is only the first step. Add your own costs to compare what is left each month.

Most looked up

London → Dubai AED 262,980 to match £75,000 +£20,943 on the same salary London → New York City $101,738 to match £75,000 −£1,085 on the same salary London → Sydney A$138,831 to match £75,000 +£1,568 on the same salary London → Austin $89,237 to match £75,000 +£5,371 on the same salary New York City → London £117,063 to match $150,000 −$1,926 on the same salary New York City → Austin $128,952 to match $150,000 +$14,386 on the same salary

What does Salary Crossing compare?

Why six tax systems and not a hundred and fifty

Other sites advertise salary comparisons for 150 countries. Nobody maintains 150 tax codes accurately, and a plausible-looking wrong tax figure is worse than a smaller set of figures you can verify.

Every jurisdiction here is encoded from its own tax authority's published rates, linked at the bottom of every comparison, and covered by tests that assert the authorities' own worked examples rather than whatever the code happens to produce. New York uses the State's own annual schedule so that the supplemental tax which claws back the lower brackets above $107,650 is included — most calculators quietly skip it and understate New York by thousands.

Bring your real costs into the comparison

The tax result uses income tax and compulsory contributions only. Open Add monthly living costs to enter housing, healthcare, childcare, transport and other essentials for both places. The calculator then works out the salary that leaves the same amount after tax and those costs.

The cost layer deliberately has no default city averages. Rent and family costs vary too widely for a single number to describe your household honestly.

Tax paid is not the same as retirement saved

Income tax and compulsory payroll charges reduce the cash available today. Pension and superannuation can also reduce current cash, but the money may remain yours for retirement. Salary Crossing keeps those figures separate and explains whether a benefit is deducted, paid by the employer on top, optional or dependent on tenure.

Money is one input, not the decision

A move can be right even when it leaves you financially worse off. Family, relationships, career direction, lifestyle and the desire for a change cannot be priced by a calculator. Salary Crossing compares the pay component of two offers; it does not score your life or tell you whether to move.

Exchange rates are European Central Bank reference rates for 2026-10-15.