Total tax paid
$18,175
Did you know your employer also pays tax on your salary? It costs the employer $4,192 to pay you $55,500. In other words, every time you spend $10 of your hard-earned money, $3.27 goes to the government.
Real tax rate
30.4%
So, with you and the employer both paying tax, what used to be a 25.2% tax rate now rises to 30.4%, meaning your real tax rate is actually 5.2% higher than what it seemed at first.