{"id":6471,"date":"2024-07-10T07:43:17","date_gmt":"2024-07-10T07:43:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/al-mawrid.org\/questions-en\/2024\/07\/10\/how-to-calculate-zakat-on-salary\/"},"modified":"2024-07-10T13:26:55","modified_gmt":"2024-07-10T13:26:55","slug":"how-to-calculate-zakat-on-salary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/al-mawrid.org\/questions-en\/how-to-calculate-zakat-on-salary\/","title":{"rendered":"How To Calculate Zakat On Salary"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>Question<\/h3>\n<p>I  would like to know the principal of calculating Zakat on salary. I  understand Mr Ghamidi is alone in his understanding that 10% of salary  is to be given away in Zakah. Am I correct or any any other scholar\/s  support\/s this? If we say that salary only involves services and no  capital, but at the same time we have already spent capital to get good  education to get the job and to learn the skills. What about this  capital? I am an IT professional. I have to advance my skills all the  time through learning new technology. Many time I am paying to acquire  advanced skills. What do you say about this? How to calculate Zakat: If i  have to pay 10% Zakat, how I will calculate the Zakat? How to calculate  NISAB on salary? For example if I am taking salary 10000 Dhs. Basic =  4000 House Rent = 5000 Traveling = 1000. How I will calculate it? If 10%  then its mean I have to give 1000 Dhs from 10,000 Dhs. My Question is  if i am living with my family my minimum expenditure will be as follow:  House rent = 5000 Dhs Grocery = 2500 Dhs Schooling = 1500 Dhs Traveling =  1000 Dhs. I still need some money around 1000 Dhs to accommodating  bills and for that either I will be taking loan or cutting my expanses  from above. How I will be able to manage 1000 Dhs for Zakat in this  case. Even beside this I have family (My father, Mother, and younger  sister) to send some money for their monthly expanses. Just I want to  know how will apply 10% rule here, because 10,000 Dhs mean 2,30,000 PAK  Rs. I think this amount is enough to declare me Sahib-e-Nisaab. Please  clarify. <\/p>\n<h3>Answer<\/h3>\n<p>This is primarily an <em>ijtihad<\/em>  done by Mr Ghamidi. As for the skill you have acquired for service &#8212;  if spending to acquire it is also going on during the time of your job  as well to a palpable extent, then the formula will change to 5 %. You  will have to judge this.<\/p>\n<div>However,  during the time you were acquiring it (and this is done mostly when a  person is in his student life and not doing a job), this question should  not arise. <\/div>\n<p>The best way to calculate the <em>nisab<\/em> on salary is to take the figure of tax exemption fixed by your government for salaried persons.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Answered by:<\/strong> Dr. Shehzad Saleem<\/p>\n<p><strong>Date:<\/strong> 2015-01-18<\/p>\n<button class=\"simplefavorite-button\" data-postid=\"6471\" data-siteid=\"1\" data-groupid=\"1\" data-favoritecount=\"0\" style=\"\">Favorite <i class=\"sf-icon-star-empty\"><\/i><\/button>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I  would like to know the principal of calculating Zakat on salary. I  understand Mr Ghamidi is alone in his understanding that 10% of salary  is to be given away in Zakah. Am I correct or any any other scholar\/s  support\/s this? If we say that salary only involves services and no  capital, but at the same time we have already spent capital to get good  education to get the job and to learn the skills. What about this  capital? I am an IT professional. I have to advance my skills all the  time through learning new technology. Many time I am paying to acquire  advanced skills. What do you say about this? How to calculate Zakat: If i  have to pay 10% Zakat, how I will calculate the Zakat? How to calculate  NISAB on salary? For example if I am taking salary 10000 Dhs. Basic =  4000 House Rent = 5000 Traveling = 1000. How I will calculate it? If 10%  then its mean I have to give 1000 Dhs from 10,000 Dhs. My Question is  if i am living with my family my minimum expenditure will be as follow:  House rent = 5000 Dhs Grocery = 2500 Dhs Schooling = 1500 Dhs Traveling =  1000 Dhs. I still need some money around 1000 Dhs to accommodating  bills and for that either I will be taking loan or cutting my expanses  from above. How I will be able to manage 1000 Dhs for Zakat in this  case. Even beside this I have family (My father, Mother, and younger  sister) to send some money for their monthly expanses. Just I want to  know how will apply 10% rule here, because 10,000 Dhs mean 2,30,000 PAK  Rs. I think this amount is enough to declare me Sahib-e-Nisaab. 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My Question is if i am living with my family my minimum expenditure will be as follow: House rent = 5000 Dhs Grocery = 2500 Dhs Schooling = 1500 Dhs Traveling = 1000 Dhs. I still need some money around 1000 Dhs to accommodating bills and for that either I will be taking loan or cutting my expanses from above. How I will be able to manage 1000 Dhs for Zakat in this case. Even beside this I have family (My father, Mother, and younger sister) to send some money for their monthly expanses. Just I want to know how will apply 10% rule here, because 10,000 Dhs mean 2,30,000 PAK Rs. I think this amount is enough to declare me Sahib-e-Nisaab. 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They show their official salary so low that they have to pay minimum taxes Alhamdulillah many in Pakistan and almost everyone in my small company is paying zakat. What I wanted to ask whether\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Economic Issues&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Economic Issues","link":"https:\/\/al-mawrid.org\/questions-en\/category\/economic-issues\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/al-mawrid.org\/questions-en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Queries.png?fit=800%2C450&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/al-mawrid.org\/questions-en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Queries.png?fit=800%2C450&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/al-mawrid.org\/questions-en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Queries.png?fit=800%2C450&ssl=1&resize=525%2C300 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/al-mawrid.org\/questions-en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Queries.png?fit=800%2C450&ssl=1&resize=700%2C400 2x"},"classes":[]},{"id":6025,"url":"https:\/\/al-mawrid.org\/questions-en\/zakat-on-salary-and-professional-income\/","url_meta":{"origin":6471,"position":2},"title":"Zakat On Salary And Professional Income","author":"admin","date":"July 10, 2024","format":false,"excerpt":"Asslam-o-Alikum, This is to seek clarification on opinion of respected Mr. Javed Ahmad Gamidi on zakat on salary and professional income, which he derived mainly through an analogy with zakat on agricultural production. I requesta response on below three concerns, which seemingly prohibits the creation of analogy between agriculture production\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Worship Rituals&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Worship Rituals","link":"https:\/\/al-mawrid.org\/questions-en\/category\/worship-rituals\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/al-mawrid.org\/questions-en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Queries.png?fit=800%2C450&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/al-mawrid.org\/questions-en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Queries.png?fit=800%2C450&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/al-mawrid.org\/questions-en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Queries.png?fit=800%2C450&ssl=1&resize=525%2C300 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/al-mawrid.org\/questions-en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Queries.png?fit=800%2C450&ssl=1&resize=700%2C400 2x"},"classes":[]},{"id":6941,"url":"https:\/\/al-mawrid.org\/questions-en\/zakat-on-rent-or-value\/","url_meta":{"origin":6471,"position":3},"title":"Zakat on rent or value?","author":"Mushfiq Sultan","date":"July 10, 2024","format":false,"excerpt":"Zakat is not levied on the capital used to purchase these properties or on their market value. Once you begin receiving rental income, you will be required to pay 10% of this income as Zakat, according to our interpretation.","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Economic Issues&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Economic Issues","link":"https:\/\/al-mawrid.org\/questions-en\/category\/economic-issues\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/al-mawrid.org\/questions-en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Queries.png?fit=800%2C450&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/al-mawrid.org\/questions-en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Queries.png?fit=800%2C450&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/al-mawrid.org\/questions-en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Queries.png?fit=800%2C450&ssl=1&resize=525%2C300 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/al-mawrid.org\/questions-en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Queries.png?fit=800%2C450&ssl=1&resize=700%2C400 2x"},"classes":[]},{"id":6008,"url":"https:\/\/al-mawrid.org\/questions-en\/zakah-on-stocks\/","url_meta":{"origin":6471,"position":4},"title":"Zakah on Stocks","author":"admin","date":"July 10, 2024","format":false,"excerpt":"Please elaborate whether stock are zakatable? If yes, please tell the percentage to be applied if they are kept for capital appreciation? What would be the share value to be used for calculation i.e. cost or market value? I have had shares for five years and never paid zakat on\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Worship Rituals&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Worship Rituals","link":"https:\/\/al-mawrid.org\/questions-en\/category\/worship-rituals\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/al-mawrid.org\/questions-en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Queries.png?fit=800%2C450&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/al-mawrid.org\/questions-en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Queries.png?fit=800%2C450&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/al-mawrid.org\/questions-en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Queries.png?fit=800%2C450&ssl=1&resize=525%2C300 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/al-mawrid.org\/questions-en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Queries.png?fit=800%2C450&ssl=1&resize=700%2C400 2x"},"classes":[]},{"id":6058,"url":"https:\/\/al-mawrid.org\/questions-en\/unjust-zakah-rates\/","url_meta":{"origin":6471,"position":5},"title":"Unjust Zakah Rates","author":"admin","date":"July 10, 2024","format":false,"excerpt":"I fail to understand why the Zakat ratio is 5% for them who invest and include services while Zakat for those who invest or give services is 10%. 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