Contractor Calculator
Try our free contractor calculator to figure out your net take-home pay. Our calculator is simple to use and will show you an estimate of your payment after taxes, National Insurance contributions and Cool Company’s margin are applied.
How to use the contractor salary calculator
Our contractor salary calculator below estimates how much you will receive as take-home pay after deductions when contracting. Simply enter the following information:
- *You invoice* Enter your umbrella rate.
- Choose from the dropdown menu which country you live in.
- Select your payment schedule either weekly or monthly.
Calculate your salary
You invoice £
What you get: £1,293
You live in:
You bill:
£1,293*
£22.50
| Tax, National Insurance & Pension | |
| Employers NIC | £278.00 |
| Employer Pension | £0.00 |
| Employee NIC | £112.89 |
| Income Tax | £543.39 |
| Employee Pension | £0.00 |
How to calculate your take-home pay with Cool Company
Cool Company offers you a complete service! We take care of all paperwork and handle the invoices to your clients. As soon as your client has paid the invoice and the money has arrived, we will make all required deductions, and pay you the net take-home pay.
3 easy steps from invoice to take-home pay
1. Basic rate
Say you want to know how much to quote your client for your work. To do this you need to understand what your service rate is. First, work out how much your time is worth and how much per hour or per day you want the client to pay for the work you perform. This would be your basic rate.
2. Employer contributions and Cool Company margin
Now you understand your base rate, you will need to uplift your rate to cover employer costs. These costs include Employers National Insurance and Employers Pension (optional). To calculate the uplift, we suggest adding 13.8% of your base rate for Employers National Insurance and 3% of the base rate to cover the Employers Pension contributions.
You may want to add Cool Company’s margin into the costs which are fixed at £22.50 (for weekly payments) or £80.00 (for monthly payments).
3. Income Tax
Once your invoice has been paid, Cool Company will then deduct the uplifted costs detailed above and your National Insurance contributions, pension and Income Tax. Once this has been deducted, we will send you the remaining funds which are your take-home pay.
Income tax is calculated using your HMRC issued tax code; some individuals may have other deductions for student loads or attachment of earnings. All of these are instructed by HMRC.
Cool Company will display all deductions and calculations to you on your payslip.
What influences my take-home pay?
What you invoice to your client is far from the same as what you can take home. In the UK, deductions are set out and calculated by HMRC. Cool Company works with HMRC to ensure all deductions are made and declared.
Here are the most important factors you will have to consider when you want to calculate your take-home pay: