Total tax paid
$21,084
Did you know your employer also pays tax on your salary? It costs the employer $4,199 to pay you $55,588. In other words, every time you spend $10 of your hard-earned money, $3.79 goes to the government.
Real tax rate
35.3%
So, with you and the employer both paying tax, what used to be a 30.4% tax rate now rises to 35.3%, meaning your real tax rate is actually 4.9% higher than what it seemed at first.