Family Zakat Calculator

For families with many accounts and pieces of jewellery. Pick a person to see their own items and their own nisab check; the household total is always in view. Everything stays in your browser.

Why a household needs more than one calculator

Most zakat calculators assume one person with one bank balance and one figure for gold. Real families keep several current and savings accounts, an investment portfolio or two, and a drawer of jewellery bought over many years, some of it the husband's, some the wife's, some given as mahr. Adding it all into one box gives the wrong answer, because zakat is worked out for each person on what that person owns. The National Zakat Foundation's Missed Zakat guide names couples calculating together as a common mistake: it should be done individually.

How the worksheet works

Add each person in the household, then add every item under the person who owns it: each account, portfolio and piece of jewellery as its own line. Each person's items are added up, their own deductible debts are taken off, and the result is compared with the nisab. A person whose net wealth equals or exceeds the nisab owes 2.5% of it; a person below the nisab owes nothing, even if the household together is above it. The total at the bottom is what the household pays in all.

Gold and silver by weight and purity

For each piece, enter the weight of the metal alone, without stones, and its karat (gold) or purity (silver, 92.5% for sterling). The worksheet counts the pure metal content at today's market price. Jewellery is valued at what it would fetch if sold, so you can take off the percentage a jeweller deducts when buying it back, or type the jeweller's buying price per gram instead. Whether worn jewellery counts at all depends on your school: the Hanafi school counts it; the other schools exempt gold and silver worn for personal use.

Shares and debts

Shares and funds are counted at full market value, or at 25% of it if you use the National Zakat Foundation's shortcut for long-term holdings. Only debts you are allowed to deduct come off, never interest, and each debt reduces only its owner's total.

Next year

"Start next year from this list" keeps every item and owner so you only update the values on your new zakat date. Items you have not updated yet are marked, and each person's figure from last year is shown beside the new one.

Questions

Do husband and wife pay zakat together?

No. Zakat is worked out for each person on what they own, and spouses should calculate individually (National Zakat Foundation, Missed Zakat guide). This worksheet checks each person against the nisab on their own, then adds up what the household pays.

Is personal jewellery counted?

It depends on your school. The Hanafi school counts all gold and silver jewellery, worn or stored; the other schools do not count gold and silver jewellery worn for personal use (National Zakat Foundation, Missed Zakat guide). If you follow a school that exempts worn jewellery, leave those pieces out.

Are diamonds and other stones counted?

No. Only the gold or silver is counted; Zaytuna College excludes precious stones and other metals. Enter the net weight of the metal without the stones.

How is a 22 karat piece valued?

The worksheet counts its pure gold content: weight times karat divided by 24, at the market price for pure gold. 10 g of 22k gold counts as 9.17 g of pure gold. You can instead type the price a local jeweller would pay per gram. This method is awaiting our scholar’s review.

Where is my list stored?

Only in this browser. Nothing is sent to a server. Use Export to keep a copy, and Import to load it on another device or next year.

Some rules here are awaiting scholar review (see sources and method): counting mahr only for the wife, deducting a jeweller's wastage, and how stones, children's wealth and mid-year purchases are treated. Check them with a scholar you trust before paying. Prices: gold-api.com. Rates By Exchange Rate API.