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NSW payroll tax calculator

Work out a full-year employer's payroll tax in New South Wales for 2025-26 or 2026-27, from its NSW wages and its wages across Australia.

  • By Book Keeping Pros
  • Sources checked 15 Oct 2026

Work out the payroll tax

Choose the financial year and enter the wages. The result updates as you type.

For the whole year, in whole dollars

Including the wages paid in New South Wales

General information only. It works out an estimate from the wages you enter and doesn't take your circumstances into account.

Payroll tax for 2026-27

Enter both wages

Show working

Enter both wages to see the working.

How it works

Payroll tax in New South Wales is payable once an employer's taxable wages across Australia for the year pass the NSW threshold. Only the wages paid in NSW are taxed there.

An employer with wages in more than one state gets a share of the threshold as its deduction: the NSW wages as a share of the Australian wages. The calculator subtracts that deduction from the NSW wages and applies the rate to what is left.

The threshold and rate for each year are in the table below, from the Payroll Tax Act 2007 and Revenue NSW.

Thresholds and rates

NSW payroll tax calculator: thresholds and rates by financial year
Setting2025-262026-27
Annual threshold$1,200,000$1,200,000
Rate5.45%5.45%

Revenue NSW, Payroll tax thresholds and rates Checked 15 Oct 2026.

What the result assumes

  • The employer paid or was liable to pay taxable wages in Australia on every day of the financial year and isn't a member of a payroll tax group.
  • The wages you enter are taxable wages with exempt wages left out, and the Australian wages include the NSW wages.
  • The result is the tax for the whole year, which the annual reconciliation settles, not a monthly payment.
  • It doesn't decide which payments are taxable wages, or in which state a wage is taxed.

Sources

  1. Payroll tax thresholds and rates

    Revenue NSW. 2025-26 and 2026-27, released 1 July 2026. Checked 15 October 2026.

    © State of New South Wales through Revenue NSW Licence: Revenue NSW terms of use: copyright, State of New South Wales.

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When does an employer start paying payroll tax in NSW?
When its taxable wages across Australia for the year are more than the NSW threshold. An employer that pays no wages in NSW has nothing to pay there, even when its Australian wages pass the threshold.
Why does the calculator ask for wages across Australia?
The threshold is measured on Australian wages, and an employer with wages in other states gets only the NSW share of the threshold as its deduction.
Can I use it for a group of related businesses?
No. Grouped employers share one threshold, which only the designated group employer claims, so the calculator doesn't work out a group member's tax.
Does it work out the monthly payments?
No. It works out the tax for the full year. Monthly payments are estimates that the annual reconciliation settles.

General information

This calculator applies the NSW threshold and rate from the Payroll Tax Act 2007 to the wages you enter. It's general information, not advice about your circumstances. For questions about registering, contact Revenue NSW. Sources checked 15 October 2026.