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Salary and dividend calculator

Compare ways to take money from your company as salary and dividends. Start with profit and see what you keep after company tax, personal tax and National Insurance.

What the company has left before paying you, after its other costs.

What the company made this year before paying you anything, after other costs.

Tax yearRuns from 6 April to 5 April; pick the year the profit belongs to.
Any salary you want to compare with the three the page tries.

Enter a salary to add it to the comparison. At 0, only the preset options are compared.

£55,765 in your pocket, with a salary of £12,570 plus dividends after company tax

This is the highest take-home of the options compared. All salary would leave £51,283, a difference of £4,481 a year.

Routes for £80,000 of profit, 2026/27: what each salary leaves once the company and you have paid tax
Salary£5,000secondary threshold£6,708lower earnings limit£12,570personal allowance£70,217all salary
Employer NI£0£256£1,136£9,783
Corporation tax£16,125£15,604£13,818£0
Dividend£58,875£57,431£52,476£0
Personal tax and NI£8,863£8,957£9,282£18,934
In your pocket£55,012£55,182£55,765£51,283
Total tax as % of profit31.2%31.0%30.3%35.9%

A salary at the £5,000 secondary threshold costs no National Insurance but sits below the £6,708 lower earnings limit, so it earns no State Pension qualifying year. The lower earnings limit row is the cheapest salary that does.

Take-home at other profit levels, comparing the preset splits with all salary
ProfitBest preset salarySplitAll salaryDifference
£40k£12,570£31,633£29,033£2,600
£80k£12,570£55,765£51,283£4,481
£150k£5,000£85,321£81,262£4,058
£300k£5,000£150,742£150,393£349