Cross State Payroll

Payroll tax across NSW, VIC and QLD — one figure, side by side

Enter what you paid in wages and get an estimated payroll tax liability for all three states at once. This is the calculation state revenue offices won’t do for you: what happens to your threshold when wages cross a border, and what happens when entities are grouped.

Free. No signup. Every calculation runs in your browser — nothing about your payroll is sent anywhere.

Wages you paid this financial year

Total gross wages, per state, before any deductions.

Enter every jurisdiction you pay wages in. ACT and NT wages still count toward your total Australian wages — which reduces the threshold you get everywhere else — even though we don’t estimate a liability for those two yet.

Employment period
Grouping and contractors

Estimated payroll tax

Rates last updated:

Enter the wages you paid in each jurisdiction to see an estimated payroll tax figure for each one, side by side.

Why not just use the state calculator?

NSW, VIC and QLD each publish their own payroll tax calculator, but each one only knows about its own state. If you pay wages in more than one, none of them can tell you how your threshold is reduced by the wages you pay elsewhere, or what a grouping determination does to your combined liability. That interaction — not the flat-rate arithmetic — is where businesses get caught out.

Read more about how interstate apportionment works or what grouping means for your threshold, or jump straight to a single-state calculator: NSW, VIC, QLD.