Quick start
Send an annual salary
GET /api/v1/take-home/?salary=35000The response includes annual and monthly take-home, Income Tax, National Insurance, pension and student-loan deductions for the current tax year.
Refine it
Optional, explicit inputs
Add region, tax code, pension method, student-loan plan, bonus or other salary sacrifice. Defaults match the calculator: 1257L, England/Wales/Northern Ireland, 5% salary sacrifice and no student loan.
For AI agents
Connect over MCP
The same calculation is available as one read-only MCP tool: calculate_take_home_pay. Point a Streamable HTTP MCP client at https://actualsalary.co.uk/mcp/. No key or account is required.
Fair use
Small, public and cacheable
The endpoint is intended for useful salary lookups and prototypes. Responses are deterministic and cacheable; API query parameters are processed on the server but are not deliberately stored by Actual Salary.