Estimate your Cyprus statutory (Social Insurance) old-age pension — together with your government gratuity or Provident Fund. On the 2026 figures, net of GESY and income tax.
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YEAR OF BIRTH
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WORKING SINCE (YEAR)
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Optionally add the month for a more precise estimate: 3/1985 · 6/2016 — or just the year.
One line per job or period: from–to, status, and the GROSS income of that time — each year turns into points automatically.
What to enter
The GROSS income AS IT WAS THEN, in that year’s euros — before tax and contributions. Self-employed: the insurable income you declare to the SIS.
How it becomes points
Each year is divided by that year’s official basic insurable earnings (BIE).
Raises
Enter a starting amount and, optionally, a final one — the yearly raise in between is worked out for you.
Gaps
Years covered by no period count as out of work.
Months (optional)
Every year field also takes a month (e.g. 9/2007) — the first/last year then counts its months pro-rata in amount, weeks and points, and gaps between periods are detected to the month. A full date (e.g. 15/6/2016) is accepted — only its month is used. On a phone you don't need a «/» key: type 6-2016, 6.2016 or 6,2016 — it becomes 6/2016 automatically.
Pre-2008 (pound era)
Enter the amount in euros at the official rate £1 = €1,7086 — those years' BIE are applied converted at the same rate, so the points come out right.
FROM YEAR
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TO YEAR
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STATUS
= 9 contribution years — both “from” and “to” count as full years (52 weeks each).
STARTING GROSS INCOME
€✎
FINAL GROSS (OPTIONAL)
€✎
€ / YEAR
€✎
THE AMOUNT IS
SALARIES / YEAR
RAISE
A steady yearly rise is applied, reaching the final amount in the period's last year (≈ +€750/yr each year).
FROM YEAR
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TO YEAR
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STATUS
No “to”: the period runs to retirement.
STARTING GROSS INCOME
€✎
FINAL GROSS (OPTIONAL)
€✎
€ / YEAR
€✎
THE AMOUNT IS
SALARIES / YEAR
RAISE
BASIC INSURANCE POINTS
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SUPPLEMENTARY POINTS
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Find these on your insurance account statement (Ariadni → Social Insurance). The future is projected from your current income, the raise and the BIE scenario you pick below.
STATUS TODAY
IN THE CIVIL SERVICE SINCE (YEAR)
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The year you were appointed to the civil service — the scale ladder starts there.
SCALE PATH
Appointed before 1/1/2012 — the reduced entry scale does not apply to you.
Quick builds the path from the official Α1–Α16 steps (each year's own table): one increment per year, promotion at the next-higher step, and you finish at the top of the final scale.
Police, Army, Education and semi-government bodies have their own tables — for those use “Detailed” and pick “Its own custom amounts” with your payslip figures. Same if you want your own per-scale steps or more than one period.
With “my record”, the scale drives ONLY the future years — the past is covered by the points you entered. The appointment year locates today's rung; from there: one increment per year, promotion to the next-higher step, and you finish at the top of the final scale.
GROSS ANNUAL INCOME
€✎
Your FIRST working year's income (2007), in that year's euros — the path starts there and grows by the raise you set. ≈ €1.250/month. Your insurable income — this is what buys the points.
SALARIES / YEAR
The 13th (and 14th) salary is insurable — it counts fully toward your points and pension.
ANNUAL RAISE
€✎
The salary stays the same in nominal euros for the whole path — no raise is projected at all.
But because the BIE rises every year with wages, the same salary buys fewer points each following year: in the year-by-year table the amount stays flat and the points fall.
Your salary is cast back and forward with your own raise, and every year divides by its own BIE.
Past years use the official BIE table, future years use BIE projected at the index you pick under “BIE after 2026” (Historical +2.0%, Mild +0.8% or Frozen 0% — see that field for the derivations). A raise equal to the index ≈ roughly constant points.
Civil service on pay scales? Use “Detailed”.
There you add periods with the official Α2–Α16 scales and the reduced entry scale, one increment per year.
BIE AFTER 2026
BIE = Basic Insurable Earnings: the state’s yardstick salary, set each year (€11,480 for 2026). Pension points = income ÷ BIE — which is why how it moves after 2026 changes the estimate, and you pick the scenario here.
How future BIE are projected — three documented scenarios, grounded in the official table.
Historical +2.02%/yr: the geometric mean of the whole euro era in the official BIE table (2008→2026: €8,012 → €11,480, 18 steps — austerity freeze years included). Mild +0.81%/yr: the slowest rolling 10-year window of the same table (2009→2019: €8,435 → €9,147 — the crisis decade). Your employer sets your raises, the state sets the BIE — which is why the index is your own scenario choice. A slower BIE means a frozen salary loses points more gently: “Historical” is the conservative scenario, “Mild” the optimistic one. Frozen 0%/yr: the BIE stay at 2026's €11,480 forever — the MOST optimistic scenario: your salary never loses points. In the official table the BIE have frozen only once, through the austerity years (flat at €9,068, 2012–2017) — a permanent freeze has no historical precedent, which is why it is not the default. It affects every future year priced from amounts YOU declare — Quick, Record and Detailed; only the government scales are valued in today's money and stay unaffected.
YEARS OUT OF WORK (TOTAL)
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Studies, unemployment, abroad, caring — years without Cyprus contributions.
DEPENDANTS AT RETIREMENT
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A spouse without their own pension/income, or minor children then. They raise the basic pension to 80/90/100%.
CLAIM AGE
Statutory age: 65. At 63–64 a permanent −0.5%/month (up to −12%) applies, plus a 70% density condition. Deferral to 68 adds +0.5%/month.
YOUR ESTIMATE · 2050
You meet the conditions: 2.236 weeks of insurance, 42 paid points.
Net pension / month
€623,79gross €640,77×13 payments/yr
Basic pension
Average basic points 0.86 · rate 60%
€454,60
Supplementary
14.1 points × €13,25/point
€186,17
Gross / year
13 payments — the 13th every December
€8.330,01
GESY
2.65% — deductible from taxable income
−€220,74
Income tax
Taxable €8.109,27 · €22.000 tax-free (2026)
−€0,00
Net / year
€8.109,27
Net / month
€623,79
WHICH AGE PAYS?
Thinking 63–64? The reduction is counted per month (0.5%). With your birth month it makes a difference of up to +€34/month, for life — type it above: 3/1985.
Net monthly pension by claim age — the reduction/increase is permanent, for the life of the pension.
COMPARED TO TODAY
Net today €1.106,88/month → pension €623,79/month = 61% of your current income.
If that percentage scares you, you're not alone — that's what provident funds and private pensions are for. Discuss it with a professional.
BALANCE ON 1.1.2026 (€)
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From your fund statement for end-2025 — 2026 contributions are computed from here, never double-counted.
YOUR CONTRIBUTION (%)
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EMPLOYER CONTRIBUTION (%)
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Percent of gross salary, each. Typical in Cyprus: 5% + 5% (range 3–10%).
RETURN SCENARIO
Three average-annual-return scenarios, tied to published Cyprus data — see where each comes from.
“Conservative +2%”: the deposit-heavy fund profile — Cypriot funds hold ~14% in cash/deposits today (double the euro-area average, Central Bank's first statistical report, 2025) and reached ~51% in 2001; in the zero-rate decade such portfolios returned ~0–2%. “Moderate +4%”: a middle mixed profile — the midpoint of the other two. “Balanced +5.5%”: the mean annual return of the longest published Cypriot balanced series (EuroLife Balanced, 1989–2024: +5.50%/yr); for scale, large funds returned +6.8% to +8.4% in 2024 (Hotel Employees +6.83%, Universal Balanced +7.18%, EuroLife +8.36%). Returns are not guaranteed — in 2013 bank employees' provident funds lost ~€600m in the bail-in — and management fees eat into returns. The scenarios are illustrative historical magnitudes — not a forecast, not a guarantee and not investment advice or a recommendation; actual returns can be negative. Payout from an approved fund at retirement is generally tax-free — confirm your own fund's status — and your own contributions are income-tax deductible inside the 1/5 basket — try it in the tax calculator.
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÷ BIE = the Basic Insurable Earnings the year's salary is divided by to become insurance points — per the official rule, the FOLLOWING year's BIE.
Teal: each year's actual BIE (in Quick mode too, where the salary is expressed in its era's euros); grey: future years — in Quick mode at BIE projected on the historical average (≈ +2.0%/yr), government scales: each past year at its own BIE; elsewhere (“My record”, future years) at today’s BIE (€11.480) — though with a raise set in “My record”, future years switch to projected BIE, exactly like Quick.
Year
Salary
÷ BIE
Points
2007
€15.000
€7.668
1.96
2008
€15.000
€8.012
1.87
2009
€15.000
€8.435
1.78
2010
€15.000
€8.687
1.73
2011
€15.000
€8.886
1.69
2012
€15.000
€9.068
1.65
2013
€15.000
€9.068
1.65
2014
€15.000
€9.068
1.65
2015
€15.000
€9.068
1.65
2016
€15.000
€9.068
1.65
2017
€15.000
€9.068
1.65
2018
€15.000
€9.106
1.65
2019
€15.000
€9.147
1.64
2020
€15.000
€9.566
1.57
2021
€15.000
€9.682
1.55
2022
€15.000
€10.008
1.50
2023
€15.000
€10.482
1.43
2024
€15.000
€11.104
1.35
2025
€15.000
€11.480
1.31
2026
€15.000
€11.480
1.31
2027
€15.000
€11.712
1.28
2028
€15.000
€11.948
1.26
2029
€15.000
€12.189
1.23
2030
€15.000
€12.435
1.21
2031
€15.000
€12.686
1.18
2032
€15.000
€12.942
1.16
2033
€15.000
€13.203
1.14
2034
€15.000
€13.470
1.11
2035
€15.000
€13.742
1.09
2036
€15.000
€14.019
1.07
2037
€15.000
€14.302
1.05
2038
€15.000
€14.591
1.03
2039
€15.000
€14.885
1.01
2040
€15.000
€15.186
0.99
2041
€15.000
€15.492
0.97
2042
€15.000
€15.805
0.95
2043
€15.000
€16.124
0.93
2044
€15.000
€16.449
0.91
2045
€15.000
€16.781
0.89
2046
€15.000
€17.120
0.88
2047
€15.000
€17.465
0.86
2048
€15.000
€17.818
0.84
2049
€15.000
€18.177
0.83
Total: 42.0 basic + 14.1 supplementary points
ASSUMPTIONS & LIMITS
Points: a year’s income ÷ the FOLLOWING year’s basic insurable earnings (the official conversion rule). In “Detailed”, employee/self-employed periods use each year's actual BIE and ceiling from the official SIS insurable-earnings table (1980–2026); pound-era years (pre-2008) are converted at the official rate £1 = €1,7086 — enter those incomes in euros at the same rate. The points scheme started on 6.10.1980; older service needs “My record”. The frame rule: the government scales for future years are valued in today’s amounts and divide by today’s BIE (income tracking average wages ⇒ constant points). Anything YOU declare as a nominal amount or raise — Quick, “My record”’s income, and typed “Detailed” periods, including future years — divides by that year’s own BIE: official through 2026, projected after at the index you pick (“BIE after 2026”): Historical +2.02%/yr (the table's own 2008→2026 mean), Mild +0.81%/yr (its slowest decade, 2009→2019) or Frozen 0% (held at €11,480). Why: your raise is set by your employer, the BIE by average wages — and the two rarely agree; your own number over a frozen divisor would inflate future points.
2026 figures: BIE €220,76/week (€11.480/yr), contribution ceiling €68.904 (max 6 points/yr), full basic pension €529,82/month (= 60% × €220,76 × 4, exact cross-check), supplementary point worth ≈ €13,25/month. In Quick mode the income you enter is your FIRST working year's and is cast forward by the “annual raise” you pick: “No raise” — the default (a frozen nominal amount — points fall as the BIE rises) — or your own % / € raise once a year, in the unit of the salary you entered (yearly or monthly). Every year divides by its own BIE: past years the official ones, future years BIE projected at the index you pick under “BIE after 2026” (Historical +2.0%, Mild +0.8% or Frozen 0%).
Full contribution years assumed (52 weeks per working year) — except where you've given a month: there the first/last year counts its months pro-rata (see “Months & dates”). Credited periods (studies, army, unemployment), buy-backs and EU years abroad are not modelled.
The pension reform under discussion (vote ~late 2026, effect 2027) will change parameters — they'll be updated here once law.
Statutory pension only: no occupational/provident funds, no government occupational scheme, no foreign pensions.
Government scales: the real Α1–Α16 salary steps from the official open payroll data (data.gov.cy, EACH year's table 2004–2026 — 13-salary gross annual, incl. COLA; each year uses its own table verbatim, the latest that came into force within it — for 2023 the 1/6/2023 table — so every figure matches the published document; 2012–2016 have no published table and carry 2011's last one forward), with ready-made paths Clerical (A2–A5–A7), Graduates (A8–A10–A11) and Professional (A9–A11–A12): one increment per year, promotion continues at the next-higher step, and you finish at the top of the final scale. The reduced entry scale is applied automatically to the first 24 months of service for post-1/1/2012 appointments (month-exact when months are given; the first two calendar years otherwise). The tables publish it only from 1/7/2020 — for 2012–2019 appointments the figure is computed from the official data itself (the tables’ own “basic −10%” rule, or the first published value moved with the year’s pay level, backtested on the 2020–2026 tables to within ±€15/year) and is marked “computed”; promotion scales, which have no reduction at all, use the 1η βαθμίδα. Police, Army, Education and semi-government bodies have their own tables — in a “Government” period pick “Its own custom amounts” with your payslip figures. In “My record” with “Government”, the scale computes only the future years — the past is covered by your points; the appointment year sets today's rung, and the entry window bites only for the part of it falling from this year on.
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Optionally, the year fields also take a month (e.g. 9/2007) — for birth, for the start of work and for “Detailed” periods — plus an exact claim month. The month counts: in the age factor (±0.5% per month from 65), in each part-year's amount, weeks and points (annual amount × months/12 — the year-by-year table shows what was actually paid, summed when two periods share a year), and in the gaps between periods. A full date (e.g. 15/6/2016) is accepted but only its month is used — scales and factors are monthly, the day changes nothing. Any separator («-», «.» or «,») becomes «/» automatically as you type. Without a month, the whole year counts (1/1–31/12), as always. Annual raises and government increments are applied per calendar year; the 24-month reduced-entry window, though, is counted in actual service months — cumulatively across all Government periods — and the boundary year is paid as a blend (so many months reduced, the rest on the step).
ⓘAn estimate under current legislation and 2026 amounts — not an official calculation and not advice. Calculations are approximate and may contain inaccuracies or omissions. Your pension is determined solely by your official insurance record at the SIS. Verify before any retirement decision.
Data sources: Basic insurable earnings tables — Social Insurance Services · Government payroll tables — Treasury of the Republic (General Accounting Office), via gov.cy and the National Open Data Portal data.gov.cy, licensed Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 (CC BY 4.0). The data have been processed (pound-to-euro conversion, ladder consolidation, tables carried into unpublished years, computed figures where marked “computed”). Use of the data does not imply endorsement by or affiliation with these bodies.
Calculating your pension in Cyprus — what to know
How is the old-age pension calculated in Cyprus?
Each year your insurable earnings convert into insurance points: earnings ÷ basic insurable earnings (€11,480 for 2026, capped at 6 points — ceiling €68,904). The pension has two parts: the basic (60% of your average basic points from age 16 to retirement — full rate €529.82/month in 2026, increased to 80/90/100% with dependants) and the supplementary (1.5% × total supplementary points × the basic insurable earnings, roughly €13.25 per point per month). Pensions are paid 13 times a year.
Can I retire at 63 in Cyprus?
Yes, with two conditions: a permanent actuarial reduction of 0.5% for every month before 65 (up to −12% at 63), and an insurance density of at least 70% of your reference years — effectively a near-full career. The statutory age is 65; deferring up to 68 increases the pension by 0.5% per month (+18% at 68). Both adjustments are permanent for the life of the pension.
How many years of contributions do I need for a Cyprus pension?
You need at least 780 weeks (15 years) of paid contributions with at least 15 paid basic-insurance points, and total points of at least 30% of the years since you turned 16. With less, you may be entitled to an old-age lump sum instead, or to the social pension (€429.15/month in 2026) at 65 with 20 years' residence in Cyprus.
Does it also calculate the lump sum or a Provident Fund?
Yes — below the year-by-year table, the “Lump sum & Provident Fund” card covers both. For government employees it estimates the retirement gratuity automatically under the statutory formulas: annual pension × 14/3, service to 31.12.2012 at the final salary, from 1.1.2013 on the whole-career average, a 400-month total service cap, the ½-of-final-emoluments ceiling and the actuarial reduction of part B on early retirement — as in the Treasury's official worked examples; for the tax treatment consult the competent authority or a professional. For employees and the self-employed it projects your Provident Fund balance to retirement, applying your contribution percentages to the same salary path with three documented return scenarios, in nominal euros and in today's purchasing power.