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38 OECD Countries • OECD Taxing Wages 2024
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How Much Do You Really Take Home?
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PPP-adjusted take-home pay & tax comparisons across 38 OECD countries using official OECD Taxing Wages + World Bank data.
Compare net salary after income tax and social security across 40 countries, adjusted for real purchasing power.
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OECD Countries
3,300+
Take-Home Scenarios
$20K–$300K
Salary Range
2024
OECD Taxing Wages
OECD Wage Geography — Where Pay Lives
A scatter matrix of OECD economies. Horizontal axis is the country's combined tax-wedge percentage (a stand-in for the labor-cost gap until OECD gender-gap ETL ships); vertical axis is PPP-adjusted net pay at $100K gross. Dashed crosshair marks the OECD median. Color encodes region.
Scenarios modeled
3,300+
Median PPP wage
$82,500
Median tax wedge
33.8%
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Best PPP-Adjusted Take-Home at $100K
See all rankings → #1 Bulgaria
$55
PPP-adj. net / yr
#2 Mexico
$55
PPP-adj. net / yr
#3 Romania
$58
PPP-adj. net / yr
#4 Poland
$60
PPP-adj. net / yr
#5 Hungary
$65
PPP-adj. net / yr
#6 Slovakia
$70
PPP-adj. net / yr
#7 Lithuania
$74
PPP-adj. net / yr
#8 Croatia
$75
PPP-adj. net / yr
#9 Latvia
$76
PPP-adj. net / yr
#10 Czechia
$78
PPP-adj. net / yr
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Frequently Asked Questions
What is purchasing power parity (PPP)?
PPP adjusts salaries for the different cost of living between countries. A $100K salary in Norway buys less than in Portugal because prices are higher in Norway. PPP-adjusted take-home shows what your net pay can actually afford.
How is take-home pay calculated?
Take-home pay = gross salary minus income tax minus employee social security contributions. Data comes from OECD Taxing Wages 2024, which covers all 38 OECD member countries at multiple income levels.
Which countries have the lowest taxes?
Hungary, Estonia, and Chile consistently rank among OECD countries with the lowest income tax burdens. However, low taxes do not always mean highest take-home purchasing power — cost of living matters equally.
What is the Pillar Two global minimum tax?
Pillar Two is an OECD-led initiative to impose a 15% minimum corporate income tax globally. Most EU countries, the UK, Japan, South Korea, and Switzerland have enacted it. The US has not yet implemented Pillar Two-compliant rules.
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