Total tax paid
$166
Did you know your employer also pays tax on your salary? It costs the employer $47.43 to pay you $2,000. In other words, every time you spend $10 of your hard-earned money, $0.83 goes to the government.
Real tax rate
8.1%
So, with you and the employer both paying tax, what used to be a 5.9% tax rate now rises to 8.1%, meaning your real tax rate is actually 2.2% higher than what it seemed at first.