Income impact

Estimate how taking parental benefit (föräldrapenning) changes your income. Use the Monthly mode for a quick view, or Total mode if you want to enter exact numbers of days.

Benefit setup

Rules year

Uses yearly caps and benefit constants.

Calculate for

Household mode is intended for a full 480-day plan for one child.

Estimate type Monthly mode gives an average based on benefit days per week. Total mode lets you enter an exact set of benefit days (use full-day equivalents in 0.125 steps). To estimate salary impact, we value only the working-day part of those benefit days. If benefit days per week is higher than your working days per week, we assume the extra withdrawals fall on non-working days and do not reduce salary in the estimate.

Monthly = quick average. Total = enter exact days.

Parents

Parent 1

Monthly salary (SEK)

Gross salary before leave.

Annual SGI (optional, SEK)

If provided, SGI overrides salary × 12 for SGI-level benefit.

Monthly leave pattern

Day type

Withdrawal fraction

Benefit days per week

Decimals allowed (1/8 steps). Example: 2.5 can represent five half-days/week.

240-day condition met?

If not met, the first 180 SGI/basic days are paid at the basic level (250 SEK/day).

SGI/basic days already used

Used only to apply the 240-day rule logic for the first 180 days.

Tax & net estimate (optional)

Where do you live?

Used to suggest a Skatteverket tax table number (based on total municipal tax rate, excl. Church of Sweden fee).

Tax table (29-42)

Suggested from municipality; you can override with your A-tax certificate table.

Tax table column

For most employees, use column 1 (or 3 if 66+ at year start).

Benefit tax deduction method

Optional: estimate benefit net. Real withholding can follow Skatteverket decisions/tables.

Parent 2

Monthly salary (SEK)

Gross salary before leave.

Annual SGI (optional, SEK)

If provided, SGI overrides salary × 12 for SGI-level benefit.

Tax & net estimate (optional)

Where do you live?

Used to suggest a Skatteverket tax table number (based on total municipal tax rate, excl. Church of Sweden fee).

Tax table (29-42)

Suggested from municipality; you can override with your A-tax certificate table.

Tax table column

For most employees, use column 1 (or 3 if 66+ at year start).

Benefit tax deduction method

Optional: estimate benefit net. Real withholding can follow Skatteverket decisions/tables.

Work schedule

Your workdays per week How many days you normally work in a typical week (most people: 5). We use this only to estimate the salary value of the benefit days. It does not change the parental benefit amount.

Used to value salary impact and to cap salary reduction to your workdays.

Tax year

Used for Skatteverket tax tables (preliminary withholding).

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Results

Benefit gross (avg/month) Gross parental benefit for the period shown (monthly average in Monthly mode, or selected days in Total mode). SGI-level uses the yearly cap and replacement rate; Basic and Minimum use fixed daily amounts.

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Salary reduced by (gross/month) Monthly mode: salary reduction is estimated from your workdays/week, benefit days/week, and withdrawal fraction. Total mode: salary value is estimated as salary per workday × (selected benefit days × min(1, workdays/week ÷ benefit days/week)). This avoids counting weekend withdrawals as lost salary.

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Gross change vs working Gross change compares: parental benefit (gross) minus the salary value you would have earned while working. Negative means your gross income is lower during leave than if you worked for those days.

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Net change vs working Net uses preliminary tax withholding. Salary withholding is calculated from Skatteverket tax tables (table + column). Benefit withholding uses your chosen method (for planning).

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Quick compare - benefit days/week This table recalculates the same scenario for 1 to 7 benefit days per week (calendar weeks are always based on a 52-week year). Monthly mode: shows the monthly average change vs working. Total mode: shows the total change for the selected days (benefit amount stays the same; salary impact only changes if you withdraw more than your workdays/week).

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Benefit days/week	Gross change	Net change (estimate)

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