Did you know your employer also pays tax on your salary? It costs the employer $475 to pay you $15,833. In other words, every time you spend $10 of your hard-earned money, $3.21 goes to the government.

So, with you and the employer both paying tax, what used to be a 29.1% tax rate now rises to 31.2%, meaning your real tax rate is actually 2.1% higher than what it seemed at first.