Has your pay kept up with inflation?
Pay Power shows what your salary is really worth, how much of it goes to the state, and the raise you need to keep up, worked out from your own numbers.
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Has my pay kept up?
See this year's salary in the money of any earlier year, using official inflation figures.
How much goes to the state?
Enter gross and take-home pay to see whether the state's share of your pay is rising.
What raise do I need?
Get the figure to ask for, worked out from your own pay, not a rule of thumb.
An example
Someone earning €100,000 gross in 2022 got a raise to €110,000 by 2025. Their take-home pay went up, but:
| Take-home pay, 2022 → 2025 | €64,500 → €69,200 |
| Pay growth | +7.3% |
| Real change in buying power | −3.3% |
| Share of gross paid to the state | 35.5% → 37.1% (+1.6 pts) |
| Raise needed to keep up (allowing for tax) | €4,986 gross (4.5%) → +€2,343 take-home |
Example figures with example inflation rates.
How it works
- Choose the country you're paid in.
- Add a card for each year: gross and/or take-home pay, yearly or monthly, with 12, 13 or 14 payments a year.
- Drag the years you want to compare into the Reporting Frame, and check the figures.
- Get your report, and export a PDF with every figure, the inflation rates and their sources, and each step of the calculation, so your employer or HR can check it.
Your salary stays yours
- Your figures are used for one thing only: calculating your reports.
- They're never sold, and never shared with advertisers or anyone else.
- Without an account, everything stays on your phone, encrypted. Saving or exporting a report asks you to sign in with Apple or Google, so it's kept in your account, along with your cards; only you can see them.
- You can delete your data and your account at any time in the app.
Where the inflation figures come from
Pay Power uses each country's consumer price index, as an annual average: from the World Bank's World Development Indicators, and from national statistics offices such as the US Bureau of Labor Statistics. Every report names the source of every rate it uses.
Pay Power compares pay with official inflation figures. It isn't tax, legal or financial advice.