€1,000 gross to net in Greece (2026)

What €80 above the minimum wage is really worth

If you are weighing a €1,000 offer against a minimum-wage job, compare take-home pay, not headline figures. The minimum wage of €920 nets €772; €1,000 nets €827. Of the extra gross, e-EFKA takes 13.37 % and the second tax band takes 20 % of what remains, so you keep roughly 69 %.

Your employer sees a larger difference: on top of your gross pay it adds its own 21.79 % contribution, so this position costs €1,218 a month, €17,051 a year. The employer cost calculator breaks that figure down line by line.

The €12,000 line where the tax credit starts to taper

Every employee gets a tax credit under article 16 of the Greek income tax code: €777 a year without children. Once taxable salary income exceeds €12,000, the credit loses €20 for each €1,000 above that line. Taxable income here means gross pay times fourteen minus your e-EFKA contributions, which puts the line at about €989 gross a month.

At €1,000 the effect is tiny: the credit applied is €774 instead of €777. What matters is the direction. From here on, each raise is taxed at the band rate plus an extra two points from the shrinking credit, until the credit runs out far higher up the scale. The employee tax credit guide has the figures for each family size.

Check your seniority before accepting a round number

Staff paid on the statutory minimum earn 10 % more for each three-year block of experience (trietia), up to 3. With just one, the legal floor is €1,012, which is €12 more than €1,000. A tidy four-figure offer can therefore be below what your experience already entitles you to. See the seniority increments page, or run any other figure through the salary calculator.

€1,000 gross by number of children

€1,000 gross by age