Salary Exchange Rate & Inflation Calculator
Paid in euros but spending forints? Paid in lei while the euro climbs? Enter your salary on two dates and see, in percent, how much less (or more) it buys now and what raise would put it back.
The EUR salary is converted to HUF at the ECB rate of each date, then set against local prices.
Paydays repeat the start date's day of the month.
Leave it empty if it hasn't changed.
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Result
Enter your net salary on the start date.
What it buys = salary in the local currency now ÷ then ÷ (1 + price rise) − 1. Paydays repeat the start date's day of the month, at the ECB rate of that day or of the last working day before it.
Your salary stays in this browser and is not saved. Only dates, currency codes and a country code go to our server, which asks the ECB and Eurostat. ECB reference rates are for information, and Eurostat's HICP can differ slightly from your national consumer price index (KSH, INS). Not financial advice.
How to use it
- Start from your last raise (or the day you signed) and end today, so the result covers exactly the time your salary stood still.
- Use your net salary, the amount that reaches your account. The price rise comes from Eurostat; type over it if you'd rather use your national statistics office's figure.
- Bring the numbers, not the feeling: the paragraph at the bottom states your salary, the exchange rate and the price rise with their sources, ready to paste into an email.
How a euro salary behaves in Hungary and Romania, with a worked example: Salary in euros, bills in forints or lei: how to budget it
Holding money in more than one currency? Track it in one total, privately on your phone. See Volora's multi-currency net worth tracker
Guides on this topic
- Salary in euros, bills in forints or lei: how to budget it
Budget in forints at the past year's lowest rate and convert only what the month needs. Example: the same €2,500 salary was worth 873,825 to 990,950 Ft.
- Currency gain or loss on your euros: a worked example
Divide what you paid by the euros you got: that's your average purchase rate. Example: €2,000 bought in four goes, a 15,960 Ft loss, 4,864 Ft of it realised.
- Net worth in multiple currencies: which exchange rate to use?
Convert every account at one official rate on one day, then split the change into what you saved and what the rate did. Example: €1,218.71 saved, €183.02 FX.