‘Estimated net’ badge: the net pay of your salary range in 2026

Net pay for three common ranges

Estimated net pay a month for a full-time white-collar worker, without meal vouchers or other benefits. Net pay varies with the family situation: withholding tax (bedrijfsvoorheffing / précompte professionnel) takes into account a spouse with no income and dependent children.

For a blue-collar worker, the same range of 3,200 to €3,600 gives about €2,291 to €2,418 net (single): their contributions are calculated on 108% of gross pay. At four-fifths, a single white-collar worker’s net pay drops to about €1,988 to €2,103.

Adding the badge below a job offer

1. Enter the offer’s gross monthly range, full-time, the status of the post (white-collar or blue-collar) and the work schedule.
2. Choose the profile quoted in the advert: a single person, by default.
3. Copy what you need: the link (for a job site or social network), the sentence (for the text of the advert) or the HTML block (for your careers site).

Example link: https://indexo.be/en/professionals/recruiters/?brut=3200-3600&statut=employe. The page reads the range from the address and the tool fills itself in. The page’s official address remains https://indexo.be/en/professionals/recruiters/, without parameters.

The HTML block: no script, no image, no tracker

The block is a simple paragraph with a link. It loads nothing from Indexo: your page stays just as fast, and your visitors are not tracked. Add your own styles to the indexo-net class.

<p class="indexo-net">Gross salary: €3,200 to €3,600 a month.<br>
Estimated net: about €2,310 to €2,440 a month for a single person (parameters in force on 1 October 2026).<br>
<a href="https://indexo.be/en/professionals/recruiters/?brut=3200-3600&amp;statut=employe">See the net pay for your situation on Indexo</a></p>

The sentence for the advert, ready to copy: ‘Gross salary: 3,200 to €3,600 a month (about 2,310 to €2,440 net for a single person, Indexo estimate)’. The amounts in the block and the sentence are rounded to the nearest ten euros; they no longer change once the offer is published, whereas the link always recalculates with the parameters in force.

Pay transparency: what the directive provides

Directive (EU) 2023/970 on pay transparency (Article 5) gives candidates the right to know the starting pay or its range, set on objective, gender-neutral criteria. The information can appear in the published job advert or be given before the interview. Once the Belgian law is adopted, employers will no longer be able to ask candidates what they earned in previous jobs; until then, according to the FEB (Federation of Belgian Enterprises), there is no general ban, but discrimination remains prohibited.

In Belgium, these rules will apply to the private sector only after the transposing law. According to sources as of 17 September 2026, it has not been adopted. The legal deadline of 7 June 2026 has passed and remains unchanged: on 1 June 2026, the government asked the European Commission not to open infringement proceedings for six months. Showing a range now, with its net pay, already helps candidates compare offers. The timetable and the pay gap indicators are detailed on the Pay gap page.

The limits of the estimate

• The net pay is that of a private-sector employee, with withholding tax deducted every month. The final tax, calculated the following year, may be slightly different.
• Meal vouchers, company cars, working from home and other benefits are not counted. For a full package, the net value of each item is calculated by Pay rise or benefits? and Compare two job offers.
• The cost of the offer to the company is calculated with Cost of a salary to the employer.

Frequently asked questions

What next?

• Cost of a salary to the employerWhat the offer costs the company.
• Pay gapThe directive’s indicators, calculated in your browser.
• Compare two job offersThe net pay of two offers, from the candidate’s side.
• Gross to netThe net pay of a gross salary, line by line.