About

Go Home Early Australia is a small set of free calculators for employees: take-home pay, redundancy pay and notice, and unused annual leave. It is an independent project. It is not run by, endorsed by or connected with the Australian Taxation Office, the Fair Work Ombudsman or the Fair Work Commission.

Why this exists

The operator has handled pay, tax and super calculations for a small team firsthand. The calculators available gave different numbers for the same inputs and did not say where the numbers came from, so the figures had to be worked out again from the legislation. This site publishes that working, with the source and the check date next to each number.

Rates come from the source

Tax rates, offsets, the Medicare levy, super guarantee, notice and redundancy tables come from Commonwealth legislation on legislation.gov.au. Other values, such as the national minimum wage, the HELP repayment table and the super contribution caps, come from the Fair Work Ombudsman, the Fair Work Commission and the ATO. The Sources and rates page lists each value, where it came from and the date it was last checked.

Checked against official examples

The calculations are tested against the ATO's published withholding sample data, the worked examples in the withholding instrument, the ATO's own HELP examples, and an independent second implementation. The site is not released with a failing test.

Updates

Most rates change on 1 July. When they do, the values and the checked dates are updated together. If you find an error, tell us.

Your numbers

Every calculation runs in your browser. What you enter is not sent to a server. See the privacy policy.