Total tax paid
$15,484
Did you know your employer also pays tax on your salary? It costs the employer $3,440 to pay you $46,000. In other words, every time you spend $10 of your hard-earned money, $3.37 goes to the government.
Real tax rate
31.3%
So, with you and the employer both paying tax, what used to be a 26.2% tax rate now rises to 31.3%, meaning your real tax rate is actually 5.1% higher than what it seemed at first.