See how much tax comes out of your weekly pay and what you actually take home. Enter a weekly wage or an annual salary, whichever you know. Uses the official ATO withholding formulas, so it matches your payslip.
The same wage across every pay cycle, using the ATO formulas.
| Cycle | Gross | Tax | Take-home |
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What a pay rise or a drop would mean each week. Your current pay is highlighted.
| Weekly pay | Tax | Take-home | Kept |
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Tax withheld from weekly earnings, for an Australian resident who has claimed the tax-free threshold. Generated live from the ATO Schedule 1 formulas, so it stays in step with the calculator above.
| Weekly earnings | With tax-free threshold | No tax-free threshold | Take-home | Annual equivalent |
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| The table is generated by the calculator. With JavaScript switched off, the ATO publishes the same figures in Schedule 1 (NAT 1004) and the weekly tax table (NAT 1005). | ||||
On $1,500 a week as an Australian resident who has claimed the tax-free threshold, roughly $299 is withheld, leaving about $1,201 in your hand. That is around $78,000 a year gross. Change the amount in the calculator above for your own figure, and see the table for other weekly amounts.
Withholding is worked out from a separate set of formulas, not by dividing your annual bill. The ATO drops the cents from your weekly earnings, adds exactly 99 cents, applies a formula for your earnings band, then rounds to the nearest dollar. The result is close to a fifty-second of your annual tax but rarely identical, which is part of why refunds happen.
You can only claim the tax-free threshold with one employer. Your second employer withholds under Scale 1, with no tax-free amount, so the rate looks high from the first dollar. It is not extra tax, just a different withholding rate. Untick the tax-free threshold above to see what your second job should be withholding.
No. Overtime is taxed the same as ordinary pay. What happens is that a week with overtime pushes your weekly earnings into a higher band, and the formulas assume you earn that much every week. More is withheld that week than the year needs, and the excess comes back as a refund when you lodge.
No. The super guarantee is paid by your employer on top of your wage, not deducted from it. If you are on a salary package described as inclusive of super, your actual wage is the package less the super component, and that lower figure is what you should enter here.
Estimate only. This Weekly Tax Calculator applies the formulas in ATO Schedule 1
(NAT 1004) and has been checked against the sample data published in that schedule. It does not
cover student loan withholding (Schedule 8), tax offsets claimed on your declaration, Medicare levy
adjustments for families with dependants, seniors and pensioners, working holiday makers, back
payments, bonuses or termination payments. It is general information, not tax advice. For advice on
your circumstances, speak to a registered tax agent.
Source: NAT 1004-06.2026. Rates last verified: 9 September 2026.
