Total tax paid
₱ 4,750
Did you know your employer also pays tax on your salary? It costs the employer ₱ 2,571 to pay you ₱ 8,944. In other words, every time you spend ₱ 10 of your hard-earned money, ₱ 5.31 goes to the government.
Real tax rate
41.3%
So, with you and the employer both paying tax, what used to be a 24.4% tax rate now rises to 41.3%, meaning your real tax rate is actually 16.9% higher than what it seemed at first.