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Plain-language explainers built on the same 2026 CRA rates as the calculators — each one links to the calculator that runs its numbers.
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Plain-language explainers built on the same 2026 CRA rates as the calculators — each one links to the calculator that runs its numbers.
Free calculators that show your real take-home pay — federal tax, provincial tax, CPP and EI — for every province and territory, using verified 2026 CRA rates.
Start here. Pick your province, enter your salary, and see exactly where every dollar goes.
The same salary keeps a different amount in every province. Pick yours for its 2026 brackets, basic personal amount and worked salary examples.
Every calculator prints the exact federal and provincial brackets, basic personal amounts, CPP/EI rates and maximums it used — so you can check the math yourself against the CRA source.
Your salary and financial inputs never leave your device. There is no account, no server copy and nothing stored — the calculations happen in your browser, and the numbers are gone when you close the tab.
These are planning estimates with basic credits, not a Notice of Assessment. Every page carries an “estimate only — not tax or financial advice” note and links to the official CRA sources.
Prefer to learn by watching? DimeDoctrine publishes plain-language personal finance and business lessons that pair with these calculators — work through a guide here, then watch the lesson there.
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Eight free Canadian money calculators, all running the same verified 2026 tax engine. No sign-up, no limits, nothing leaves your device.
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Home › Calculators › Salary ↔ Hourly
Salary to hourly: hourly rate = annual salary ÷ (hours per week × weeks per year). Hourly to salary runs the same formula backwards. The part most converters skip is the after-tax step: two offers with the same gross pay can keep different amounts depending on your province, and an hourly offer with no paid vacation is worth less than it looks — if you take 3 weeks unpaid, use 49 weeks, not 52.
A $70,000 salary at 37.5 hours a week over 52 weeks is $70,000 ÷ 1,950 hours = $35.90 an hour before tax. In Ontario in 2026 that salary keeps about $53,786 after tax, CPP and EI (see the province page for the full breakdown) — roughly $27.58 per working hour in your pocket. Comparing a job offer? Read Salary vs Hourly: How to Compare a Job Offer in Canada.
At 37.5 hours a week it is 1,950 hours; at 40 hours a week it is 2,080. Canadian full-time roles commonly use one of the two — check your offer letter.
Yes. Paid vacation means you are paid for all 52 weeks. Reduce the weeks only for unpaid time off, seasonal work or contract gaps.
No. Overtime (typically 1.5× after 44 hours a week in Ontario, with different rules by province) is extra and is taxed as regular income when paid.
Related: Take-Home Pay Calculator · CPP & EI Calculator · How Your Paycheque Is Calculated
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An RRSP contribution is a deduction: it lowers your taxable income dollar for dollar, so the tax you save is roughly the contribution × your marginal tax rate — with an important catch. If the contribution is large enough to push you down through a bracket, part of it is refunded at the lower rate. This calculator does it properly: it runs the full 2026 tax engine twice, once at your salary and once at your salary minus the contribution, and the difference is your estimated refund (which may arrive as a bigger refund or a smaller balance owing).
On a $70,000 Ontario salary, a $5,000 RRSP contribution saves about $1,483 of tax in 2026 — an effective refund rate of 29.65%, matching the combined federal (20.5%) + Ontario (9.15%) marginal rate at that income. Invested at 5% for 25 years, that single $5,000 contribution grows to about $16,932 before withdrawal tax.
No — it is a tax deferral. You get tax back now, but withdrawals in retirement are fully taxable. The RRSP wins when your retirement tax rate is lower than today’s.
There is a $2,000 lifetime grace amount; beyond that, excess contributions are penalized 1% per month until removed. Check your Notice of Assessment before contributing a large lump sum.
No — and no website can. Your room is personal and held by the CRA. We show the 2026 limits and the tax math; confirm your room in CRA My Account.
Related: Take-Home Pay Calculator · TFSA Calculator · RRSP vs TFSA guide
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Every year you are 18 or older and resident in Canada, you gain the year’s TFSA dollar limit — $7,000 for 2026. Unused room carries forward forever, and money you withdraw is added back to your room on January 1 of the following year. Someone who was already 18 and resident in 2009, when the TFSA launched, and has never contributed has $109,000 of cumulative room in 2026. Growth inside the account and withdrawals are completely tax-free, and withdrawals do not affect income-tested benefits like OAS or GIS.
Turned 18 in 2015? Your cumulative room by 2026 is the sum of the annual limits from 2015 to 2026 — $78,000. If you have contributed $20,000 lifetime and never withdrawn, your available room is about $58,000. A $7,000 contribution invested at 5% for 20 years grows to about $18,572 — and every cent can come out tax-free.
The excess is taxed at 1% per month until it is withdrawn. This is the most common TFSA mistake — usually caused by re-contributing a withdrawal in the same calendar year. See TFSA Contribution Room: Common Mistakes.
Yes, but your room is shared across all of them. The limit applies to you, not to each account.
No. Unlike the RRSP, TFSA room is the same for everyone in a given year, regardless of earnings.
Related: RRSP Calculator · TFSA room guide · RRSP vs TFSA
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Step 1 — minimum down payment. 5% of the first $500,000 of the price, plus 10% of the portion between $500,000 and $1,500,000. At $1,500,000 or more, 20% down is required and mortgage insurance is not available.
Step 2 — CMHC insurance. With less than 20% down, default insurance is mandatory and the premium is added to your mortgage: 4.00% of the loan at 90.01–95% loan-to-value, 3.10% at 85.01–90%, 2.80% at 80.01–85% (plus 0.20% if amortization exceeds 25 years). At 20%+ down there is no premium.
Step 3 — the payment. Canadian fixed rates compound semi-annually, so the monthly rate is (1 + annual ÷ 2)2/12 − 1. The payment then follows the standard amortization formula over your chosen frequency.
Step 4 — the stress test. You must qualify at the greater of your contract rate + 2% or 5.25%. The calculator shows the payment at the qualifying rate — that is the payment your lender tests against the 39% GDS / 44% TDS limits.
A $650,000 home with $65,000 (10%) down: the mortgage before insurance is $585,000. At 90% loan-to-value the CMHC premium is 3.10% = $18,135, making a total mortgage of $603,135. At 4.50% over 25 years the monthly payment is about $3,338. The stress-test qualifying rate is 6.50% (4.50 + 2 beats the 5.25% floor), where the payment would be about $4,040 — the figure the lender uses to qualify you.
Rounding of the rate conversion, the exact payment frequency (accelerated bi-weekly is different from regular bi-weekly), and whether the CMHC premium’s sales tax is financed all move the figure by a few dollars. The method — semi-annual compounding — is the Canadian standard.
Yes: put 20% or more down. The premium is one reason saving the extra down payment can be worth it — on the example above it saves $18,135 plus the interest on it.
Gross Debt Service (housing costs ÷ gross income, limit ~39%) and Total Debt Service (all debt payments ÷ gross income, limit ~44%), tested at the qualifying rate. See CMHC Insurance and the Stress Test, Explained.
Related: Rent vs Buy · CMHC & stress test guide · Take-Home Pay Calculator
Home › Calculators › Rent vs Buy
The honest comparison is net worth at the end of your stay. Buying: your equity is the home’s future value minus the remaining mortgage and selling costs. Renting: your portfolio is the down payment you kept invested, plus each month’s cash-flow difference between owning costs (mortgage payment + owner costs) and rent, also invested. Whichever pile is bigger wins — under your assumptions, which is why the growth and return inputs matter more than the verdict.
A $650,000 home, 20% down, 4.5% mortgage, $2,600 rent, 7-year stay, 3% home growth and 5% investment returns: buying leaves roughly $322,800 of net equity after closing and selling costs, while renting and investing leaves roughly $295,000 — buying ahead by about $27,800. Shorten the stay to 3 years and closing/selling costs usually flip the answer to renting. Try your own horizon above.
Buying has large one-time costs at both ends (land transfer tax, legal, CMHC, selling commissions). Spread over 3 years they swamp the equity build-up; over 10+ years they fade and principal repayment dominates.
Rent increases, moving costs, and the discipline assumption: the model only works if the renter actually invests the difference every month.
Property tax, insurance, maintenance and repairs (budget roughly 1–2% of the home’s value a year combined), plus land transfer tax at purchase — doubled in Toronto.
Related: Mortgage Calculator · CMHC & stress test guide
Home › Calculators › Self-Employment Tax
As a sole proprietor, your business profit is taxed as personal income — same federal and provincial brackets — with three big differences from an employee. 1) CPP is doubled: you pay both halves, 11.90% on earnings between $3,500 and $74,600 in 2026 (maximum $8,460.90), plus 8% on the CPP2 band to $85,000 (maximum $832). The employer half is a deduction from income; the employee half earns a non-refundable credit. 2) No EI unless you opt in for special benefits (parental, sickness) — you cannot collect regular EI on lost work. 3) No employer withholds tax, so the CRA will usually require quarterly instalments once your net tax owing exceeds $3,000 ($1,800 in Quebec).
On $70,000 of net self-employment income in Ontario in 2026, this estimator shows roughly $7,914 of CPP (both halves), about $10,175 of combined income tax after the CPP deduction and credits, and take-home of roughly $51,912 — a “set aside” share of about 26% of every dollar. That percentage, recalculated at your real income, is the number to automate into a separate tax account. Full guide: Self-Employed in Canada? Taxes, CPP and What to Set Aside.
Use the percentage this calculator gives you at your expected annual income, and sweep it to a separate savings account with every invoice paid. Recheck mid-year — CPP maxes out partway through the year at higher incomes, which lowers your marginal set-aside later in the year.
Once your taxable revenue passes $30,000 over four consecutive calendar quarters, registration is mandatory. Many register voluntarily earlier to claim input tax credits.
Incorporation can defer tax when you earn well above what you need to live on, but adds accounting and legal costs. That decision needs a professional with your full picture — this estimator covers the unincorporated case.
Related: Take-Home Pay Calculator · CPP & EI Calculator · Self-employment guide
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Each page shows that jurisdiction’s verified 2026 brackets and basic personal amount, worked take-home examples at $50,000, $70,000 and $100,000 computed by the same engine as the calculator, and a calculator preset to that province.
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MapleTaxCalc (mapletaxcalc.com) is a free collection of Canadian money calculators: take-home pay for all 13 provinces and territories, RRSP and TFSA planning, CPP and EI deductions, a Canadian mortgage calculator with CMHC insurance and the stress test, rent vs buy, and a self-employment tax estimator.
Everything runs the same shared tax engine, built from the Canada Revenue Agency’s published 2026 rates and checked against hand calculations. Every calculator page prints the rates it used, so the math is never a black box.
The site is built on three rules: no sign-up (open it and use it), no uploads (your numbers are calculated in your browser and never leave your device), and honest estimates (clearly labelled, sourced to the CRA, and never presented as tax advice).
MapleTaxCalc is the sister site of CleverToolkit, a general everyday-tools site. Questions or corrections: [email protected].
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Federal brackets, the basic personal amount and the Canada employment amount: Canada Revenue Agency, “Canadian income tax rates for individuals — current and previous years” and the CRA indexation announcement for 2026. Payroll rates and maximums (CPP, CPP2, EI): CRA payroll deductions formulas T4127 and tables T4032 for 2026. Provincial and territorial brackets and basic personal amounts: CRA provincial/territorial tax pages and provincial finance ministries. Quebec pension and parental plan rates (QPP, QPIP): Retraite Québec and Revenu Québec. Mortgage insurance premiums: CMHC premium tables. Stress test (minimum qualifying rate): OSFI Guideline B-20 and the Department of Finance rules for insured mortgages. RRSP/TFSA limits: CRA registered plans limits table. Rates on this page were verified for the 2026 tax year in November 2026.
Basic credits only. Not modelled: age and pension amounts, tuition, medical and charitable credits, Ontario’s low-income tax reduction (LIFT), BC’s tax reduction credit, Manitoba’s basic personal amount phase-down at very high incomes, income splitting, capital gains and dividend gross-ups, and employer-specific deductions. Results are estimates for planning; your Notice of Assessment is the official figure.
Found a rate that looks wrong? Email [email protected] with the CRA page you are looking at — accuracy is the whole product, and verified corrections are made promptly.
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Questions: [email protected]. Last updated November 2026.
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MapleTaxCalc provides free calculators and guides for general information and planning only. Nothing on this site is tax, financial, mortgage or legal advice. Tax results are estimates based on published 2026 rates and basic credits; your actual tax depends on your complete situation and is determined by the Canada Revenue Agency (and Revenu Québec in Quebec). Verify important figures against CRA sources or a qualified professional before acting on them.
The site is provided “as is” without warranties. We work to keep rates accurate and current for the stated tax year, and we correct verified errors promptly, but we accept no liability for decisions made from estimated figures. External links (CRA, CMHC, YouTube) are provided for convenience; their content is their owners’.
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