Total tax paid
$1,104
Did you know your employer also pays tax on your salary? It costs the employer $294 to pay you $5,980. In other words, every time you spend $10 of your hard-earned money, $1.85 goes to the government.
Real tax rate
17.6%
So, with you and the employer both paying tax, what used to be a 13.5% tax rate now rises to 17.6%, meaning your real tax rate is actually 4.1% higher than what it seemed at first.