For any earnings over 41.060€ gross per year, net is approximately 1/3 of gross: - 13.07% employee side social security contribution. The ~35% of gross salary

For any earnings over 41.060€ gross per year, net is approximately 1/3 of gross: - 13.07% employee side social security contribution. The ~35% of gross salary employer side social security contribution comes on top of this, so is not included. - ~53.5% taxation. This includes national and local tax, but excludes regional tax. Note that from about the top tax bracket, you receive no extra health, unemployment or pension rights in return: - Health care is universal. - Unemployment compensation is not limited in time. It has recently become degressive with time though, and it's capped at a relatively low maximum. - Pensions are repartition based as opposed to individual capitalisation based, meaning current employees pay for current pensioners. They're also capped at a fairly low maximum.