Spain Salary Withholding Calculator — 2026
| Gross salary | €50,000 | |
|---|---|---|
| Social security (employee) | -€3,250 | Employee contributions on the capped contribution base |
| Income tax withheld by the employer | -€11,200 | Withholding rate 22.40% of gross (base 44750.00, personal and family minimum 5550.00) |
| Net | €35,550 | Effective rate 28.9% |
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Figures still waiting on the law
These amounts are in force in practice — the administration applies them — but the statute that fixes them for this tax year has not been passed yet. We show them because leaving them out would give you a worse answer, not a safer one.
- regimes[0].reduced_contribution.amount_per_period (EUR 80/month, tarifa plana) — EUR 80/month was fixed by law only for 2023-2025 (DT 5ª RDL 13/2022); from 2026 the amount must be set by the annual Budget Law, which has not been passed (budget rollover). No norm of statutory rank sets the 2026 figure. Seguridad Social nevertheless applies EUR 80 de facto and publishes the 2026 tables with it. Publishing it is less wrong than omitting the reduced cuota altogether, which would overstate a new freelancer's first-year cost by roughly EUR 1,400. (what we relied on) · we re-check after 2026-12-31
- regimes[0].reduced_contribution.surcharge_per_period (EUR 8.64/month, MEI on top of the reduced cuota) — Derived from the total of EUR 88.64/month that Seguridad Social publishes for 2026 (88.64 - 80.00). It rests on the same unpassed Budget Law as the EUR 80 itself, and the MEI base used by the administration to reach 88.64 is not stated in any norm we could open. (what we relied on) · we re-check after 2026-12-31