Total tax paid
£85,779
Did you know your employer also pays tax on your salary? It costs the employer £24,495 to pay you £162,756. In other words, every time you spend £10 of your hard-earned money, £5.27 goes to the government.
Real tax rate
45.8%
So, with you and the employer both paying tax, what used to be a 37.7% tax rate now rises to 45.8%, meaning your real tax rate is actually 8.1% higher than what it seemed at first.