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Part-time pay calculator · 2026–27 tax rates

What does your part-time pay come to?

Enter your rate and hours to see your pay after tax.

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No casual loading applied. Part-time uses the same tax rates as full-time, with 12% super on top

Take-home pay

Example

$733.66a week

Example for $40.49 an hour, 20 hours a week. Enter your pay above.

Take home$733.66
Income tax$59.94
Medicare levy$16.20
Super (retirement savings)$97.18

Paid by your employer on top of this pay.

Effective tax rate9.40%

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Halving your hours does not halve what lands in your account

This is the part people get wrong when they weigh up dropping a day. The pay falls, of course. It falls by less than you would expect, because the tax scale is built in steps and the steps you leave behind are the expensive ones. What you keep, measured against what you earned, rises as the total falls.

The same job, fewer hoursFull hoursTaxTake-homeAbout half the hoursTaxTake-home
The bar gets shorter. The share of it you keep gets longer.

So the useful question is not what fraction of your salary you would lose. It is what the two take-home figures actually are, side by side. Enter your current hours, write the answer down, then enter the hours you are considering. The distance between them is usually smaller than the distance between the two gross figures, and that gap is the thing worth knowing before a conversation with your employer.

Pro rata is a word that hides a question

Part-time work comes with leave, and leave accrues in proportion to the hours you work. That much is simple. What it means for any particular arrangement is less simple, because the proportion is of a full-time year rather than of your own, and people tend to picture it the other way around.

This page cannot resolve that for you, but it can stop you comparing the wrong things. An hourly rate with leave behind it and an hourly rate without leave behind it are not the same offer even when the numbers match. If the rate in front of you already carries a loading instead of leave, the casual page is built for that shape.

One income at a time

This page models a single job. Hold two and the tax system does not give each one its own fresh start; the year is added together first and taxed once. Running the jobs separately produces two flattering answers and one wrong total, because each run quietly assumes the other job does not exist.

Add the incomes together and enter the sum. The result will look worse than the two separate runs, and it will be the one that matches what happens at the end of the year.

What this page takes on trust

It cannot check your rate against the industrial instrument that sets it, so a figure that is too low will pass through this page without comment. Nor does it attach the penalty rates that belong to particular shifts, because those move individual weeks rather than the whole year.

It also assumes your hours hold steady, which is the ordinary case for part-time work and the main thing that separates this page from the casual one. If your hours move week to week, the answer here is a picture of one week repeated rather than of the year you will actually have.

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Worked example: 3 standard days at $40.00 an hour

Part-time pay is normally a slice of a full-time week. In this example the slice is 3 days out of 5, where a day is the 38-hour standard week shared evenly across those 5. That comes to 22.8 hours at $40.00 for the 2026–27 income year.

  1. Hours across 3 days22.8 hours
  2. Pay for the year before tax$47,424.00
  3. Tax from the brackets alone$4,747.20
  4. Offset for lower incomes-$288.64
  5. Medicare levy on the year$948.48
  6. Take-home over the year$42,016.96
  7. Take-home each fortnight$1,616.04

Adding another day lifts pay by the same fraction every time, yet take-home climbs a little more slowly. Some of that gap comes from the higher bracket and some from the offset shrinking as income rises, and the table lets you watch the offset column fall away.

Days worked at $40.00 an hour during 2026–27
Days a weekHoursYearly payOffset receivedTake-home a fortnight
3 days22.8$47,424$288.64$1,616.04
4 days30.4$63,232$51.52$2,020.36
5 days38$79,040$0.00$2,431.82

Official pages behind the part-time figures

Rates checked with official sources on 15 August 2026.

How we check the numbers

Frequently Asked Questions

Part-time pay starts from hours, not from a salary figure, so the first thing worth checking is whether the conversion from one to the other holds up. The questions below cover that, and then super. That pairing is deliberate: part-time contracts are where the line between a wage and a package tends to blur, and the answer changes what your real hourly rate is.

How does this page turn my part-time salary into take-home pay?

It starts from the salary you are paid for the hours you actually work, not a full-time figure scaled down, and takes out income tax, the Medicare levy and any study loan repayment. Your employer pays super on top of that salary. Fewer hours mean less super as well, but none of it comes out of your pay.

Why doesn't my part-time payslip match this result?

Withholding tables assume you earn the same amount every week or fortnight. Part-time rosters rarely stay that steady, so one payslip can be a little over and the next a little under. The yearly total is what gets settled when you lodge your return.

Does the 2026–27 tax cut change much at part-time hours?

It can matter more than it does at full-time. If your part-time income sits in the bracket that went from 16% to 15%, every extra dollar you earn in it now keeps one cent more. Switch the Tax Year selector above the calculator to see both years at your hours.

Is a part-time result from this calculator an estimate?

Yes. It uses the ATO rates for the year you pick and assumes your hours hold steady for twelve months. A second job, deductions and investment income are left out, so treat the figure as a planning number and check anything important with a registered tax agent.

How is super worked out on part-time hours in 2026–27?

At 12% of the qualifying earnings for the hours you are paid, so it rises and falls with your roster. Under the Payday Super change it now leaves with each pay rather than once a quarter, which means a short week shows up as a smaller contribution straight away.

If a part-time job is quoted as a package, is super inside it?

Only if the offer says the figure includes super. A part-time rate quoted per hour is almost always the wage alone, with super paid on top. A yearly package is the one to read twice: if super sits inside it, the wage part is smaller than the headline and the result here will be lower than you expect.