Total tax paid
$ 11,919
Did you know your employer also pays tax on your salary? It costs the employer $ 346 to pay you $ 70,960. In other words, every time you spend $ 10 of your hard-earned money, $ 1.68 goes to the government.
Real tax rate
16.7%
So, with you and the employer both paying tax, what used to be a 16.3% tax rate now rises to 16.7%, meaning your real tax rate is actually 0.4% higher than what it seemed at first.