Total tax paid
$650
Did you know your employer also pays tax on your salary? It costs the employer $142 to pay you $2,000. In other words, every time you spend $10 of your hard-earned money, $3.25 goes to the government.
Real tax rate
30.3%
So, with you and the employer both paying tax, what used to be a 25.4% tax rate now rises to 30.3%, meaning your real tax rate is actually 4.9% higher than what it seemed at first.