Total tax paid
£3,443
Did you know your employer also pays tax on your salary? It costs the employer £2,376 to pay you £15,785. In other words, every time you spend £10 of your hard-earned money, £2.18 goes to the government.
Real tax rate
19.0%
So, with you and the employer both paying tax, what used to be a 6.8% tax rate now rises to 19.0%, meaning your real tax rate is actually 12.2% higher than what it seemed at first.