Total tax paid
$35,565
Did you know your employer also pays tax on your salary? It costs the employer $403 to pay you $70,763. In other words, every time you spend $10 of your hard-earned money, $5.03 goes to the government.
Real tax rate
50.0%
So, with you and the employer both paying tax, what used to be a 49.7% tax rate now rises to 50.0%, meaning your real tax rate is actually 0.3% higher than what it seemed at first.