Total tax paid
$15,001
Did you know your employer also pays tax on your salary? It costs the employer $1,918 to pay you $63,917. In other words, every time you spend $10 of your hard-earned money, $2.35 goes to the government.
Real tax rate
22.8%
So, with you and the employer both paying tax, what used to be a 20.5% tax rate now rises to 22.8%, meaning your real tax rate is actually 2.3% higher than what it seemed at first.