What an Employee Costs Across Europe
A salary comparison answers what the employee keeps. It does not answer what the hire costs, and the two are set independently: Spain takes 6.5% from the employee and 30.6% from the employer, so a country can be hard on one side and cheap on the other.
The sharper question is the one an employer-of-record quote poses: not “what does this salary cost” but “what does it cost to put a given amount in this person's account?” Hold the take-home constant and the countries reorder themselves, because the distance between gross and net is different in every one. Both views are below, on 2026 rules.
The cost table could not be built for this deployment. The calculator and the API are unaffected — every figure here comes from POST /compare.
Pricing hires across Europe in your own product?
One call to POST /compare returns employer social security and total employer cost for every country we cover, in native currency and converted. It is the same call this page is built from — HR, payroll, relocation and employer-of-record platforms use it directly.