Total tax paid
$1,726
Did you know your employer also pays tax on your salary? It costs the employer $275 to pay you $6,001. In other words, every time you spend $10 of your hard-earned money, $2.88 goes to the government.
Real tax rate
27.5%
So, with you and the employer both paying tax, what used to be a 24.2% tax rate now rises to 27.5%, meaning your real tax rate is actually 3.3% higher than what it seemed at first.