Social Security BoardYour salary
Enter your pay before any deductions. Contributions are set on a weekly basis, so monthly and annual amounts are converted to a weekly figure.
Across the wage range
Where your salary falls compared with everyone else's.
See the full table, band by band Every current band, plus salaries above today's ceiling, for each year of the phase-in.
On a small screen, slide the table sideways to see all the columns.
Your salary and contribution history
Enter what you earned in each period of your working life, including years still to come before you retire. The Board holds your real contribution record; this page works from what you enter.
See your earnings year by year What each schedule counts for every year you entered, and which years make up each average.
Shaded figures are the years used in each average. On a small screen, slide the table sideways to see all the columns.
How your benefit grows with contributions
At your average earnings, from the 500 contributions needed for a weekly pension.
This is what you would receive. The other tab shows what you and your employer would pay in.
Configuration and note rules (staff only) Bands, rates, thresholds, accrual tiers and every sentence on the page.
Everything below is data, not code. Edit it here to try a change, then download the file and
place it beside the page as config.json. The page loads that file at startup and
falls back to the built-in values if it is missing. The current contribution schedule uses the
exact dollar amounts from the published table rather than recalculated percentages.
How the “What this means for you” bullets are chosen. They are not generated text.
Each is a fixed sentence with figures substituted in, shown only when its condition is true.
Four to six apply to any given salary, which is why the count changes. Conditions:
belowFloor and floorImpact under $140; actualPay at
$140 and over; one of totalUp / totalDown / totalSame;
rateFalls where today's employee rate exceeds 3% below $340;
splitChange at $340 and over; cliff within $20 of $340;
ceilingQuirk between $500 and $520; aboveCeiling above $520;
phaseIn above the first phase's maximum; yearly always.