How much a self-employed worker in Spain needs to bill to take home €2,000 a month (and why every website gives you a different number)
Note: the example in this article is a hypothetical profile (a service professional working from home, under simplified direct estimation), not a real person. It’s here so you can follow the sums step by step with the official contribution and tax figures in force.
Search “how much do I need to bill to take home 2,000 euros” and you’ll find half a dozen calculators giving you half a dozen different numbers: some talk about just under 3,000 euros a month, others around 3,500, others over 4,000 once VAT is thrown into the mix. For the same target. None of them is lying, but almost none of them says what it’s actually measuring.
