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What does a Spanish salary pay out?

Enter a gross annual salary and see the take-home after income tax and social security — per month, the Spanish way, including the 14-payment custom.

Your salary

Spanish offers are quoted gross per year — "bruto anual".

Many Spanish contracts split the same annual salary into 14 — the "pagas extraordinarias" in summer and at Christmas.

See the Beckham Law checker for the conditions.

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net per year
An estimate using the combined state + average regional scale — each region sets its own half of the rates, so Madrid, Catalonia and the rest all differ by a point or two. Personal circumstances (children, disability, joint filing) change the allowances. Good for judging an offer; not a payroll calculation.

Reading a Spanish offer

1

Gross annual is the language

Offers, job ads and contracts all speak in bruto anual. Nobody quotes monthly net — you're expected to know your own tax situation.

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14 payments, same total

The extra July and December payments aren't a bonus — they're the same annual salary cut into 14 slices. Budget on the ordinary month, enjoy the extras.

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Social security buys things

The employee contribution funds public healthcare, unemployment cover and your Spanish pension record — which also counts towards long-term residence and citizenship applications.

Coming to Spain to work?

Whether it's the Digital Nomad Visa or a Highly Skilled Worker permit, the visa is the part we handle end to end.

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