£21,000 After Tax

If you earn £21,000 salary per year, you will take home £1,516 every month after £141 tax, and £93 national insurance is deducted by your employer from your £1,750 monthly gross salary.


This £1,516 is the sum that you usually see on your payslip, marked as NET PAY.

(includes student loan, pension contributions, and many more).

Your gross hourly rate will be £10.10 if you are working 40 hours per week.

Your total tax liability for the whole year will be £1,686, which means that you'll pay £141 in tax every month.

Apart from tax, you'll also have to pay National Insurance. You'll pay £1,117 National Insurance in the 2022 - 2023 tax year (or £93 per month).

Salary calculations for £21,000 done using the latest official 2022 - 2023 tax rates from HMRC.

Salary

  • Gross
  • Tax
  • NI
  • NET

Year

  • £21,000
  • £1,686
  • £1,117
  • £18,197

Month

  • £1,750
  • £141
  • £93
  • £1,516

Week

  • £404
  • £32
  • £21
  • £350

Hour

  • £10.10
  • £0.80
  • £0.53
  • £8.75
  • Gross
  • Tax
  • NI
  • NET

Year

  • £21,000
  • £1,686
  • £1,117
  • £18,197
  • Gross
  • Tax
  • NI
  • NET

Month

  • £1,750
  • £141
  • £93
  • £1,516

Extra info regarding your £21,000 salary


Personal allowance

One important fact about your £21,000 yearly salary is that you have a personal allowance of £12,570 in the tax year 2022 - 2023. Which means that you'll only pay tax on £8,430 of your earnings - the rest is tax free.

Taxable amount

According to our calculations, you'll have a total taxable amount (the part of your salary that is getting taxed) of £8,430 (we extracted your personal allowance from your yearly wage).

(includes student loan, pension contributions, benefits-in-kind, dividends, and many more).

Amount liable for NI

Apart from tax, you'll also have to pay national insurance, which is truly just another form of tax. You won't pay NI on the full amount of your salary - you can earn up to £12,569 a year (or £242 a week) without paying NI. The total amount that qualifies for NI from your salary is £8,431 per year, or £703 / month.

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