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Cross-border net salary Slovakia → Austria 2026
Live in one EU country, work in another? Pick your corridor — France→Switzerland (frontalier), Germany→Switzerland (Grenzgänger), Slovakia→Austria, Belgium→Netherlands and 5 more — and we tell you where your social security goes, where your income tax goes, and a baseline net-salary estimate. Includes telework rules under the 2023 EU framework agreement.
Where do you live?
Pick your residence country — the country where you sleep most nights and where your family lives.
Corridor-specific notes
- Austrian payroll deducts income tax (Lohnsteuer) and social security at source — your Slovak tax return reports the AT income but with full credit, so usually no extra Slovak tax is due.
- Family allowances (Familienbeihilfe + Kinderabsetzbetrag): Austria pays the difference between AT and SK family benefits — apply at the AT Finanzamt with your spouse and children's data.
- Telework from Slovakia is treated like work in Austria for tax purposes only if it stays under 49.9% of working time (EU framework agreement).
- Health insurance is Austrian (e-card) — your family in Slovakia can be co-insured via S1 form.
Why a cross-border calculator?
More than 2 million people in the EU live in one country and work in another. Each cross-border corridor has its own tax-treaty rules, social-security allocation, and special status — and these rules change frequently as governments renegotiate post-COVID telework norms. Standard salary calculators don't model any of this.
We pick the corridor (e.g. France→Switzerland), look up the relevant tax treaty article, apply the EU social-security regulation 883/2004 plus the 2023 EU framework agreement on cross-border telework, and surface a baseline net estimate plus a clear list of where each obligation goes. Personal situation (allowances, dependents, special deductions) requires a tax advisor on top of this baseline.
Everything runs in your browser. We don't store your salary, your country pair, or your personal details — there's nothing to leak.
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Frequently asked questions
Short answers to the questions people most often ask before relying on the page.
- Who counts as a 'cross-border worker' under EU rules?
- Under EU regulation 883/2004, a cross-border worker (frontalier worker) is a person who is employed in one EU/EEA/Swiss state but resides in another and returns home at least once a week. Some bilateral tax treaties add a stricter definition — e.g. the France-Switzerland frontalier requires daily return to be tax-resident in France for the salary.
- What changed about telework after 2023?
- Before July 2023, working more than 25% of your time from your residence country shifted social security back to that country — a hard rule. The EU framework agreement on cross-border telework (signed by 21 countries in 2023) raised this threshold to 49.9% provided the employer also signs. Tax rules are separate: each country has its own day count for income tax (e.g. 34 days/year tolerance for France-Luxembourg before days become French-taxable).
- Will I be taxed twice?
- No — the double-taxation treaty between the two countries determines who taxes the salary, and the other country either exempts the income or grants a tax credit equal to the foreign tax paid. You DO usually still need to file a return in your residence country and declare the foreign salary, even if no extra tax is due. Failing to declare can trigger penalties.
- Where do I get health insurance?
- Generally in the country where social security is paid — i.e., usually the work country. Cross-border workers can use the S1/A1 forms to register family members at home. Some corridors offer a one-time choice (France-Switzerland frontaliers can pick between French CMU and Swiss LAMal, but the choice is binding for the entire frontalier period).
- What about pension contributions?
- Pension contributions follow the social-security anchor — typically the work country. When you retire, the EU coordination rules (regulation 883/2004) ensure that years contributed in different EU/EEA countries are aggregated to compute your pension entitlement in each. You receive a partial pension from each country where you worked and met the minimum contribution years.
- Can my employer refuse the cross-border setup?
- Yes — for the new 49.9% telework agreement specifically, both the employee and the employer must opt in. Without the employer's signature on the framework agreement, the old 25% rule applies. Some employers refuse because cross-border telework adds payroll complexity (different cantonal/regional rates, A1 certification, etc.).
- Are these calculations stored?
- No. The calculator runs entirely in your browser — your salary, country pair and personal details never leave your device. We use no cookies on this page, no analytics, no signup. The corridor pages are statically generated, so the data layer doesn't talk to a server at all.
- Which corridors do you cover?
- Currently 9 high-volume corridors: France→Switzerland (frontalier), Germany→Switzerland (Grenzgänger), Belgium→Netherlands, Slovakia→Austria, Poland→Germany, France→Luxembourg, France→Belgium, Germany→Luxembourg, Czech Republic→Germany. We add new corridors based on user requests.