Take-Home Pay Calculator

Enter your annual salary, province and pay frequency to see what each paycheque delivers after federal and provincial income tax, CPP (including CPP2) and EI. Rates and contribution ceilings are current for the 2025 tax year.

2025 tax year rates All 13 provinces Updates as you type

Your salary

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How it works. The calculator applies the federal and provincial brackets after the basic personal amounts, adds CPP (both the base contribution and the CPP2 band) and EI, and divides the annual net evenly across your pay periods. Ontario’s surtax and Quebec’s federal abatement are built into the tax figure.

Take-home per bi-weekly cheque

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$0 take-home per year — 0% of gross

Take-home $0 Income tax $0 CPP + EI $0
Gross per cheque$0
Income tax per cheque$0
CPP + EI per cheque$0
Annual net$0

Actual payroll withholding differs slightly from this even split: employers use CRA’s payroll deduction tables period by period, and CPP and EI stop once their annual maximums are reached — so cheques late in the year can be larger than the ones in January.

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How your net pay is built

Three deductions stand between gross salary and take-home pay. Federal and provincial income tax apply their bracket rates after the basic personal amounts shelter the first slice of income. CPP takes 5.95% of pensionable earnings above the $3,500 exemption up to the first ceiling, then the CPP2 rate of 4% on the band up to the second ceiling. EI takes 1.64% of insurable earnings up to its own maximum. What is left, divided across your pay periods, is the cheque.

Because CPP and EI are annual maximums collected as you earn, higher earners hit the ceilings partway through the year — after which cheques grow by the amount those premiums were taking. In January the meters reset and the cheque drops back. This calculator spreads everything evenly instead, which is the right lens for annual planning.

What this calculator does not cover

Employer pension or group-RRSP contributions, union dues, health and dental benefit premiums, and provincial health premiums deducted at source are not modelled — nor are bonuses, which are withheld using the period they are paid in and can look over-taxed on the stub. If you run payroll and want the withholding right for every employee and period, see our payroll services; for the full annual tax picture behind these numbers, try the personal income tax calculator.

Pay periods per year
FrequencyCheques
Weekly 52
Bi-weekly 26
Semi-monthly 24
Monthly 12

Rates reviewed for the 2025 tax year by Udit Gupta, Founder and Tax Accountant. Federal and provincial rates change annually, and this tool is an estimate for planning rather than tax advice. Confirm current figures before relying on them for a filing.

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Frequently asked questions

Usually around three-quarters of gross at middle incomes, depending on province — the rest goes to federal and provincial income tax, CPP and EI. The share falls as income rises because bracket rates climb, while CPP and EI stop growing once their annual ceilings are reached. Run your own salary and province above for the exact split.
CPP and EI reset every January. If you earn enough to max them out, premiums stop being deducted partway through the year and your later cheques grow. Come January the contributions restart, and the cheque drops back to its full-deduction size. Nothing is wrong — it is the annual maximums cycling.
Universally: federal and provincial income tax, CPP contributions (5.95% base plus the 4% CPP2 band for higher earners), and EI premiums at 1.64% of insurable earnings. On top of those, your employer may deduct pension or group-RRSP contributions, benefit premiums and union dues, which vary by workplace and are not part of this estimate.
Bi-weekly means a cheque every two weeks — 26 per year, with two months containing a third cheque. Semi-monthly means twice a month on fixed dates — 24 per year, so each cheque is slightly larger. The annual net is identical; only the slicing changes, which matters mainly for matching pay to monthly bills.
No. Canada’s brackets are marginal: the higher rate applies only to the dollars above each threshold, never retroactively to income below it. Overtime can be withheld at a higher rate in the period it is paid, making the stub look punishing, but the annual tax return trues it up to the marginal-rate math.

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Udit Gupta, founder of Tax Filings Canada

Rates and method reviewed by Udit Gupta

Ex Big 4 — Ernst & Young, Deloitte · International & cross-border tax specialist · CPA Canada (In-Depth Tax Program) · Chartered accountant, ICAI & MIA

Udit Gupta has over 15 years of experience helping corporations and business owners with corporate structuring, corporate tax filing, bookkeeping, payroll, GST/HST, cross-border tax and CRA representation. He is Big 4 trained, at Ernst & Young and Deloitte, and qualified as a chartered accountant in India and again in Malaysia. In 2014 he founded his accounting practice to serve entrepreneurs, startups and non-resident business owners across Canada. View full member bio.

The Institute of Chartered Accountants of India — member 521458 · Malaysian Institute of Accountants — member CA 44667 · Ex Big 4: Ernst & Young, Deloitte · CPA Canada (In-Depth Tax Program), completed 19 Dec 2023 · In-Depth GST/HST Part I, 12 Jul 2022 · Part II, 5 Jul 2023

Editorial policy. Every page is researched against primary sources — the Income Tax Act, CRA publications and CPA Canada guidance — and every rate or threshold is stated with the tax year it applies to.

Sources. CRA — Businesses · Income Tax Act (Justice Laws Website)

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