Part-Time Salary Calculator 2026
Fewer hours do not mean proportionally less take-home pay. This calculator scales your full-time salary to your new weekly hours, deducts wage tax and social contributions under the official German 2026 payroll model and shows how much net you keep per hour in part-time and how many vacation days you are entitled to.
Part-time net pay per month
EUR / month
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Your part-time salary is above 2,000 euro, so the normal contribution rules apply. The calculator applies the same wage tax and social contribution rules to both salaries; the comparison below shows how much of your full-time net you keep.
Next step:Turn this gross figure into your net payCalculate your statutory vacation entitlement in days
Your details
Your current or contractual full-time gross.
As in your contract or collective agreement, often 38.5 to 40 hours.
The hours you will work per week.
Sets the monthly wage tax on both salaries.
Without children the care surcharge applies from age 23, from the second child the rate falls.
Only for the childless surcharge on care insurance, which applies from age 23.
Average for 2026: 2.9 percent. Your own rate comes from your health fund.
Calculated at 9 percent; Bavaria and Baden-Württemberg charge 8 percent.
Only applies when the part-time salary is a mini-job: your 3.6 percent pension contribution then falls away.
Used for vacation days. Full-time is assumed to be a 5-day week.
As in your contract. The statutory minimum is 20 days on 5 working days.
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Side by side
Difference-836.58 EUR / month
Full-time and part-time side by side
- Share of working time
- 62.50 %
- Part-time gross
- 2,500 EUR / month
- Wage tax, solidarity surcharge and church tax in part-time
- 187.33 EUR / month
- Social contributions in part-time
- 543.75 EUR / month
- Part-time net per year
- 21,227.04 EUR / year
- Full-time net per month
- 2,605.50 EUR / month
- Less net than in full-time
- 836.58 EUR / month
- Share of your full-time net
- 67.89 %
- Net share above hours share
- 5.39 percentage points
- Gross per hour (same in both models)
- 23.08 EUR / hour
- Net per hour in full-time
- 15.03 EUR / hour
- Net per hour in part-time
- 16.33 EUR / hour
- Vacation days in part-time
- 30 days
- Statutory minimum leave in part-time
- 20 days
Good to know
You keep a larger share of your net than of your hours; the overview shows by how many percentage points. That is the progression effect: the cut mainly removes the part of your salary that carried the highest charge, so more net is left per hour.
- Vacation follows working days, not hours. If you keep working five days, only shorter, you keep all your vacation days. If the conversion produces a fraction, your contract or collective agreement decides the rounding; the round-up rule in §5(2) BUrlG is written for partial-year leave only.
- You have a right to part-time work under §8 TzBfG once your employment has lasted more than six months and your employer normally has more than 15 employees. The request must be made in text form at least three months before the desired start.
Non-binding estimate under §4 TzBfG and PAP 2026. The part-time gross is the proportional minimum; allowances and collective agreements can add more. Calculated with statutory health insurance, 9 percent church tax, without the Saxony care-insurance rule, without the factor method and without one-off payments. Your payslip is what counts.
The link carries your inputs, not the result: whoever opens it calculates with the current figures.
How much net pay do you keep in part-time?
In part-time your gross falls exactly in proportion to your hours, but your net usually falls less, because German income tax is progressive: the part of the salary you give up is the part taxed at your highest rate, so a part-time hour usually keeps more net than a full-time hour.
The formula
Part-time gross = full-time gross times part-time hours divided by full-time hours. Net = gross minus wage tax, solidarity surcharge, church tax if applicable and social contributions under PAP 2026. Net per hour = monthly net divided by weekly hours times 52 divided by 12.
Worked example
Example: 4,000 EUR gross for 40 hours becomes 2,500 EUR gross and 1,768.92 EUR net a month at 25 weekly hours. You work 62.50 percent of the hours and keep 67.89 percent of your full-time net of 2,605.50 EUR. Per hour that is 16.33 EUR net instead of 15.03 EUR.
Key figures for 2026
| Part-time gross | pro rata by hours, at least proportional (§4(1) TzBfG) |
|---|---|
| Net pay | under the official German 2026 payroll model (BMF PAP) |
| Progression effect | a part-time hour usually keeps more net than a full-time hour |
| Midijob band 2026 | 603.01 to 2,000 EUR gross, with reduced social contributions |
| Vacation | follows working days, not hours |
| Statutory minimum leave | 4 days per weekly working day, so 20 days on a 5-day week |
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How the part-time calculator works
The basis is the non-discrimination rule in §4(1) TzBfG: part-time employees are paid at least in proportion to their working time compared with a comparable full-time position. Someone working 30 instead of 40 hours therefore gets at least 75 percent of the full-time gross. That proportional amount is what the calculator uses.
From the part-time gross the calculator deducts wage tax, solidarity surcharge, church tax if applicable, and pension, unemployment, health and long-term care insurance. It uses the same official 2026 payroll model of the Federal Ministry of Finance as the net salary calculator. Both salaries run through the same calculation, so the comparison is direct.
The interesting part is the progression effect. German income tax rises with income: each additional euro is taxed higher than the one before. When you cut your hours, exactly the top, most heavily taxed part of your salary disappears. So your net usually falls by a smaller percentage than your working time, and you keep more per hour in part-time. The exception: if the part-time salary is still above the contribution ceiling, the social contributions do not fall with it and the net share can end up below the hours share. The calculator then shows exactly that.
If the part-time gross drops below 2,000 euro a month, the 2026 transition band starts, known as a Midijob. Social contributions are reduced for you there without lowering your pension entitlement. Below 603 euro the job becomes a mini-job with rules of its own. The calculator detects both bands automatically.
For vacation, working days are what count. The Federal Leave Act guarantees 24 working days on a six-day week, i.e. four days per weekly working day. Someone who cuts back to three days a week has at least twelve days of statutory leave; contractual vacation days convert in the same ratio. Whoever stays on five days and just works shorter keeps all vacation days.
What the calculator does not know: collective-agreement allowances, bonuses, a company car or whether you live in Saxony. It uses the average top-up contribution unless you enter another one. The figures show the direction and the order of magnitude very precisely, but they do not replace a payslip.
Frequently asked questions
- How do I calculate my part-time salary?
- Divide your full-time gross by the full-time hours and multiply by your part-time hours. With 4,000 euro for 40 hours, 20 hours give 2,000 euro gross. Your net falls by less than half, because the tax tariff is progressive.
- Why do I keep more than half of my net in half-time?
- Because income tax rises with income. Cutting back removes the top part of your salary, which was taxed at your highest rate. Below 2,000 euro gross the transition band with lower social contributions also applies. For very high salaries above the contribution ceiling it can be less than half instead.
- How many vacation days do I get in part-time?
- That depends on your working days, not your hours. Multiply your full-time vacation by your part-time working days and divide by five. With 30 days of vacation and three working days that is 18 days. If you keep working five days you keep all 30.
- Do I have a right to part-time work in Germany?
- Yes, if your employment has lasted more than six months and your employer normally has more than 15 employees (§8 TzBfG). The request must be made in text form at least three months before the start. The employer can only refuse for operational reasons.
- Which tax class makes sense in part-time?
- The tax class only changes how much wage tax is withheld each month, not the annual tax. Married couples where one partner goes part-time often look at the III and V combination. The final tax is settled in the tax return.
- Do I pay less into my pension in part-time?
- Yes, because pension contributions and pension points follow the gross. The exception is the transition band up to 2,000 euro: you pay reduced contributions there, but your pension points are still based on the full gross.
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