Estimate the increases you might get under the proposed public sector pay deal. Salary scales based on Circular 22/2026 (scales from 1 June 2026). No data from this calculator is sent to any server, the calculations are all local in your web browser. Increases are based on media reports in the Irish Times. I have double checked the calculations in a spreadsheet for my salary, not for yours, there may be mistakes. Join a union. Up the workers. Last modified 11 Nov 2026.
LSI1/LSI2 are long-service increments – they are not applied annually
Assumptions
- Your increment takes you up one point on the first of the month you choose, starting from September 2026. If a pay rise falls in the same month, the rise is applied first and the increment after it.
- Each rise is applied to every point on the scale (“whichever is the greater” of the percentage or the euro amount), rounded to the nearest euro (nearest cent on weekly scales), one rise after another.
- The 2% / €1,200 due on 1 September 2026 is backdated: the higher rate is paid from January 2027, and the difference for September to December 2026 is paid as back pay in January 2027. Back pay is counted in the extra earnings for 2027, the year it is paid.
- The 1% in March 2029 labelled “local bargaining” is always included in the deal figures.
- Weekly scales (e.g. Clerical Officer) are shown as annual equivalents at 52.14 weeks, and the euro minimums are converted to weekly amounts.
- Percentages in brackets are relative to your baseline pay, your annual pay on 1 September 2026. For extra earnings they are the extra as a share of baseline pay over the same months.
- Extra earnings are the monthly annual-equivalent difference divided by 12, before tax, PRSI, USC, ASC and pension contributions. This is an estimate, not an official calculation.
