Nigeria career and pay guides
What the rules actually say about your pay, worked through in naira rather than converted from somewhere else.
Tax
How to calculate the tax on your salary in Nigeria (2026)
PAYE under the Nigeria Tax Act 2025, step by step: what comes off before tax, how the six bands stack, and what ₦150,000, ₦400,000 and ₦1m a month actually pay. With a table you can read your own salary off.
3 Oct 2026 · 8 min read
TaxNigeria Tax Act 2025: what actually changes on 1 January 2026
New PAYE bands from 0% to 25%, rent relief replacing the Consolidated Relief Allowance, and nothing at all to pay on the minimum wage. The bands, the arithmetic, and who ends up worse off.
21 Aug 2026 · 9 min read