Total tax paid
£4,102
Did you know your employer also pays tax on your salary? It costs the employer £2,581 to pay you £17,150. In other words, every time you spend £10 of your hard-earned money, £2.39 goes to the government.
Real tax rate
20.8%
So, with you and the employer both paying tax, what used to be a 8.9% tax rate now rises to 20.8%, meaning your real tax rate is actually 11.9% higher than what it seemed at first.