Minijob and Midijob pay 2026: 603 EUR limit, Übergangsbereich to 2,000 EUR, employer cost
Estimates only, not financial advice. What you type stays on your device. Checked against sources on 10 Oct 2026.A Minijob in Germany may pay up to 603 euros a month in 2026. At 603 euros in a business the Minijobber keeps 581.29 euros after the 3.6% pension share of 21.71 euros, and the employer pays 187.95 euros on top. From 603.01 to 2,000 euros the Midijob rules cut the employee's contributions instead.
2026 · Rates and rules read from the sources listed on this page (the earliest on 10 Oct 2026); they may have changed since.
Type the monthly wage in euros or tap an example; the page says whether it is a Minijob, a Midijob or a regular job.
For a Minijob choose a business or a private household and whether the pension share is waived.
For a Midijob pick the tax class, children, church tax and the health fund’s Zusatzbeitrag.
Read the net pay, every contribution line by line, and the employer’s total cost under it.
This calculator shows what a Minijob or a Midijob pays out in Germany in 2026 and what it costs the employer, line by line. Type the monthly wage and the page works out which rules apply.
Minijob, up to 603 euros. The limit moves with the statutory minimum wage. The employer pays flat contributions to the Minijob-Zentrale: in a business 13% health insurance (when the Minijobber is in a statutory fund), 15% pension, the levies U1 0.80%, U2 0.22% and 0.15% insolvency, and a 2% flat tax. A private household pays 5% health and 5% pension, plus 1.6% accident insurance. The Minijobber pays the rest of the 18.6% pension contribution: 3.6% in a business, 13.6% in a household, unless that share is waived on application. Below 175 euros the pension is charged on 175 euros.
Midijob, 603.01 to 2,000 euros (Übergangsbereich). Contributions are worked out on reduced bases from § 20 SGB IV with the 2026 factor F of 0.6619. Your share starts near zero just above 603 euros and rises to the normal share at 2,000 euros (21.75% for a childless employee at the average Zusatzbeitrag); the employer pays the difference. At 1,200 euros a childless employee pays 187.27 euros instead of 261.00 euros in a regular job. The full 2026 rates apply: 14.6% health plus your fund's Zusatzbeitrag, 3.6% care, 18.6% pension and 2.6% unemployment, with the 0.6% surcharge for childless employees from 23 and the reductions for the second to fifth child.
Wage tax. A Midijob is taxed by your tax class like any job. The calculator follows the BMF Programmablaufplan 2026 step by step and was checked against 134 results of the BMF's own calculator. In classes I to IV a Midijob usually pays little or no wage tax; classes V and VI pay from the first euro.
Above 2,000 euros the normal shares apply up to the 2026 ceilings. For a full salary over a year, use the Germany Income Tax Calculator. To add VAT to an invoice, use the Germany VAT Calculator.
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A Minijob may pay up to 603 euros a month in 2026, set by the minimum wage. Above that the job becomes a Midijob in the transition zone from 603.01 to 2,000 euros, where the employee pays reduced social contributions and wage tax by tax class.
A Minijobber in a business keeps 581.29 euros of 603 euros in 2026. The only deduction is the 3.6% pension share of 21.71 euros; the employer pays the 2% flat tax. Waiving the pension share on application leaves the full 603 euros, but without full pension credits.
A business pays about 31.17% on top of a Minijob wage: 13% health insurance, 15% pension, 2% flat tax, U1 0.80%, U2 0.22% and 0.15% insolvency levy, plus accident insurance. On 603 euros that is 187.95 euros before accident insurance. A private household pays 5% health and 5% pension instead.
A Midijob between 603.01 and 2,000 euros uses two reduced bases from § 20 SGB IV with the 2026 factor F of 0.6619. The employee share starts near zero just above 603 euros and climbs to the normal share at 2,000 euros. On 1,200 euros a childless employee pays 187.27 euros instead of 261.00.
Wage tax on a Midijob follows the tax class, as for any job. In class I a childless employee pays nothing up to about 1,425 euros a month and 9.25 euros at 1,500 euros in 2026. Classes V and VI pay from the first euro, 152.83 and 174.58 euros at 1,500 euros.
Children change only the care insurance and, above the Minijob limit, the Soli and church tax. With one child the 0.6% surcharge for childless employees over 23 falls away, and from the second child the employee's care share drops by 0.25% each, up to the fifth child.
Rates and rules change; check the source before you rely on a figure.
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