Total tax paid
$691
Did you know your employer also pays tax on your salary? It costs the employer $168 to pay you $4,500. In other words, every time you spend $10 of your hard-earned money, $1.54 goes to the government.
Real tax rate
14.8%
So, with you and the employer both paying tax, what used to be a 11.6% tax rate now rises to 14.8%, meaning your real tax rate is actually 3.2% higher than what it seemed at first.