1. I'm working for myself — freelance, contract, or project-based.
Use the Freelancer tab. It works for any arrangement where you set your own rate, including platform work and part-time contracts.
Sri Lanka salary, APIT, EPF/ETF, and freelance rate calculator.
Compare take-home pay, hiring cost, freelancer pricing, and local market ranges before you make the call.
Rates last verified: 12 July 2026 · Source: IRD
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Numbers update each time you calculate. Tax tables reflect APIT 2025/26.
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Indicative only; not financial or tax advice. No personal data is included.
Which tab should I use?
2. I have a job offer or I'm reviewing my current salary.
Use the Employee tab. Enter your gross salary and it will show you what actually lands in your account after tax and EPF.
3. I'm about to hire someone or post a vacancy.
Use the Employer tab. It shows the real monthly cost to the business, not just the salary you agree on.
What do I actually need to fill in?
1. I don't know my job category.
Pick the closest match. The category affects the market comparison only — it doesn't change your tax or EPF numbers.
2. I have a basic salary plus a separate monthly allowance.
Enter them in separate fields. Then decide whether that allowance is part of your official statutory base or paid informally as cash — the checkbox controls this.
3. I don't receive any benefits.
Leave the benefits section as-is. All benefits default to off, so they won't affect your take-home unless you turn them on.
4. I'm not sure how many billable hours I actually work. (Freelancer)
Be conservative. A realistic working day has 4-6 genuinely billable hours once you subtract admin, calls, and context switching. Start there and adjust.
What do the results actually mean?
1. Take-home / net pay.
The amount deposited into your account after APIT and your 8% EPF contribution are deducted.
2. Statutory base.
The portion of your pay that EPF, ETF, and APIT are calculated against. It may or may not include your allowances depending on how your employer structures them.
3. EPF and ETF.
EPF is deducted from your salary (8%) and matched by your employer (12%). ETF is an additional 3% paid entirely by the employer. Neither appears in your take-home, but both affect total employment cost.
4. Total value.
Your take-home cash plus the monetary value of any benefits you selected. Useful for comparing two offers where one has a lower salary but better perks.
5. Market comparison.
The median gross salary for your selected role and seniority level, sourced from local market data. Use it as a reference point, not a guarantee.
6. Your minimum rate / your floor. (Freelancer)
The hourly or deliverable rate at which you break even on your income goal after expenses, platform fees, and selected contribution assumptions. Anything below this means the job is not meeting your target.
How accurate is this?
1. Are these numbers guaranteed?
No. Results are estimates based on the current APIT tables and typical EPF/ETF rules. Your actual payslip may differ depending on your employer's payroll setup.
2. How current are the tax tables?
The calculator uses APIT rates for the 2025/26 tax year, verified against IRD Tax Table No. 01 on 12 July 2026.
3. Official worked example: Rs. 170,000.
IRD Tax Table No. 02 Example 01 uses regular monthly profits of Rs. 170,000 and a Table 01 monthly APIT deduction of Rs. 1,200. This calculator also returns Rs. 1,200.
4. Official worked example: Rs. 300,000.
IRD Tax Table No. 02 Example 03 uses regular monthly profits of Rs. 300,000 and a Table 01 monthly APIT deduction of Rs. 18,500. This calculator also returns Rs. 18,500.
5. Should I use this to make a final decision on an offer or a hire?
Use it to get oriented and to ask better questions. For anything that matters — a job offer, a payroll setup, a tax filing — check with a qualified accountant or HR professional.
How are market salary benchmarks built?
1. Recorded source and method.
The figures come from the internal ceylonsalary.lk Role_Market_Rates aggregate seed recorded in the application. The repository records no underlying survey rows or company-level sources, so these are directional estimates, not independently auditable survey statistics.
2. Aggregation and privacy.
Only role-and-seniority bands are published. Values are rounded to the nearest LKR 100; no company names, person names, or raw source rows are published. The Other category uses a workbook-wide total-average fallback.
3. Update cadence.
The dataset records a last review on 3 May 2026 but no fixed update cadence. Updates are manual, not scheduled; the displayed review date is the freshness signal.