Total tax paid
$23,500
Did you know your employer also pays tax on your salary? It costs the employer $4,469 to pay you $59,000. In other words, every time you spend $10 of your hard-earned money, $3.98 goes to the government.
Real tax rate
37.0%
So, with you and the employer both paying tax, what used to be a 32.3% tax rate now rises to 37.0%, meaning your real tax rate is actually 4.7% higher than what it seemed at first.