How it works
Egyptian salary tax is charged on your annual salary after two deductions: your 11% social insurance share and a personal exemption of EGP 20,000 per year. The remaining amount is taxed in slabs: the first EGP 40,000 at 0%, then 10% up to 55,000, 15% up to 70,000, 20% up to 200,000, 22.5% up to 400,000, 25% up to 1.2 million and 27.5% above that. In practice the first EGP 60,000 of net annual salary is tax-free. Your employer withholds the tax monthly and settles it at year end.
Social insurance
Employees insured with the National Organization for Social Insurance pay 11% of the insurable wage (the employer pays 18.75%). From 1 January 2026 the insurable wage is limited to a minimum of EGP 2,700 and a maximum of EGP 16,700 per month, so above EGP 16,700 a month the deduction is fixed at EGP 1,837 per month. This calculator treats your whole salary as the insurable wage within those limits.
Worked example
Monthly salary EGP 12,000 (EGP 144,000 per year)
- Social insurance 11%: EGP 15,840 per year
- Taxable salary = 144,000 − 15,840 − 20,000 = EGP 108,160
- Tax: 15,000 × 10% + 15,000 × 15% + 38,160 × 20% = EGP 11,382 per year
- Net: EGP 116,778 per year, i.e. EGP 9,731.50 per month
What this calculator leaves out
The small stamp and martyrs’ fund charges (fractions of a percent), private insurance and pension-fund deductions, the separate treatment of bonuses and profit shares, the insurable wage split into basic and variable pay, transfers, and non-salary income are not included. Egyptian employers often quote a net figure that already includes allowances; enter the total monthly gross pay.