Total tax paid
$37,267
Did you know your employer also pays tax on your salary? It costs the employer $10,920 to pay you $104,000. In other words, every time you spend $10 of your hard-earned money, $3.58 goes to the government.
Real tax rate
32.4%
So, with you and the employer both paying tax, what used to be a 25.3% tax rate now rises to 32.4%, meaning your real tax rate is actually 7.1% higher than what it seemed at first.