Salaried employee
Definition
A salaried employee (Angestellter) is in a genuine employment relationship: personal dependence, fixed hours, bound by instruction, usually in a clerical or commercial role. Fully compulsorily insured under ASVG (health, pension, unemployment and accident) with a legal entitlement to the 13th/14th salary, holiday and continued pay while sick.
Levies and cost
Employee social insurance and wage tax come off the gross. The employer also bears the full payroll add-on costs: employer social insurance 20,48 %, municipal tax, employer contribution plus surcharge, occupational provision and the housing levy, together roughly a third on top of gross. The calculator models both sides to the cent.
Angestellter or Arbeiter?
On social-insurance rates there is no difference any more: since the harmonisation they are identical for workers and salaried employees. Remaining differences are mostly in labour law (collective agreements, notice periods), not in the levies.
Sources: ASVG, Angestelltengesetz (AngG), WKO "Beitragswesen Dienstnehmer 2026".