UK take-home · FY 2026/27 Calc-engine routed
Penny-accurate annual, monthly, weekly, daily and hourly net pay for a gross
income of £71,000 under the locked HMRC
2026/27 ruleset — standard tax code 1257L. Every row derives from the same engine that powers the interactive
calculator, so the figures here match the live tool to the penny.
Engine note · `calculateTakeHome()` integer-pence band-walk with the active 2026/27 thresholds — no float drift, no hardcoded constants on this page.
Standard tax code 1257L, no salary sacrifice, no student loan. Pull the figures into context using the matching interactive calculator to layer pension contributions or marriage allowance on top.
| Pay interval | Gross | Income tax | Nat. insurance | Take-home |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Annual breakdown | £71,000 | £15,832 | £3,431 | £51,737 |
| Monthly equivalent | £5,916.67 | £1,319.33 | £285.88 | £4,311.45 |
| Weekly equivalent | £1,365.38 | £304.46 | £65.97 | £994.95 |
| Daily baseline (260 days) | £273.08 | £60.89 | £13.19 | £198.99 |
| Hourly baseline (37.5 hrs/wk) | £36.41 | £8.12 | £1.76 | £26.53 |
A £71,000 salary in the take-home terms people actually search for — pulled out of the breakdown above so the weekly and hourly net are scannable at a glance.
Earning £71,000 has pushed your gross past the UK Higher Rate threshold of £50,270. Your first slice of earnings still consumes the £12,570 Personal Allowance and the 20% Basic Rate band; every pound above £50,270 is then taxed at the 40% Higher Rate.
Conversely, your employee National Insurance contribution rate drops from 8% to 2% once gross crosses £50,270. That gives a combined marginal deduction of 42% on the upper slice. Households claiming Child Benefit also need to watch the High Income Child Benefit Charge , which begins tapering once an individual's adjusted net income crosses £60,000 and fully claws the benefit back at £80,000.
Snapshot of the rUK income-tax and NI thresholds driving this page. Every cell in the breakdown above reads off these figures.
The interactive calculators model variables this static page deliberately omits — pension contributions, student loans, marriage allowance, the High Income Child Benefit Charge.
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