Total tax paid
$6,701
Did you know your employer also pays tax on your salary? It costs the employer $1,745 to pay you $23,004. In other words, every time you spend $10 of your hard-earned money, $2.91 goes to the government.
Real tax rate
27.1%
So, with you and the employer both paying tax, what used to be a 21.5% tax rate now rises to 27.1%, meaning your real tax rate is actually 5.6% higher than what it seemed at first.