Colombia Salary Calculator 2026: Net Pay after Retención

Calculate your net salary in Colombia for 2026: health and pension, the solidarity fund, withholding tax (retención en la fuente) and the transport allowance.

Net monthly pay
—Transport allowance
—Health (4%)
—Pension (4%)
—Pension Solidarity Fund
—Taxable base for retención
—Withholding tax (retención)
—Monthly cost to the employer

Employer cost: pension 12%, ARL class I 0.522%, family compensation fund 4% and provisions for cesantías, interest, prima and vacation; below 10 minimum wages companies do not pay health, SENA or ICBF.

What it does

In Colombia the employee pays 4% for health and 4% for pension on the salary, plus 1% to 2% to the Pension Solidarity Fund from 4 minimum wages. The employer withholds income tax every month (retención en la fuente, procedure 1) with the UVT table of article 383 of the Tax Statute, after taking off 25% as exempt income. Whoever earns up to 2 minimum wages also receives the transport allowance, which is not salary.

How to use it

  1. Type your monthly salary and tick it if it is an integral salary.
  2. Tick dependents and type the prepaid health plan if you have one.
  3. Read the contributions, the retención, the net pay and the cost to the employer.

The arithmetic runs in your browser. Nothing you type is sent anywhere and nothing is stored, so you can use these with real numbers.

Frequently asked questions

How much retención is withheld from COP 10,000,000 a month?
COP 351,399 in 2026. After health, pension and the solidarity fund (COP 900,000) and the 25% exempt income, the base is COP 6,825,000, or 130.31 UVT, taxed at 19% above 95 UVT.

What is the minimum wage in 2026?
COP 1,750,905 a month, plus a transport allowance of COP 249,095 for those earning up to 2 minimum wages, COP 2,000,000 in total (Decrees 1469 and 1470 of 2025).

Who pays the Pension Solidarity Fund?
Workers whose contribution base is 4 minimum wages or more (COP 7,003,620) pay 1% more; from 16 minimum wages it rises by 0.2% per bracket, up to 2% above 20.

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