Total tax paid
£6,458
Did you know your employer also pays tax on your salary? It costs the employer £3,315 to pay you £22,028. In other words, every time you spend £10 of your hard-earned money, £2.93 goes to the government.
Real tax rate
25.5%
So, with you and the employer both paying tax, what used to be a 14.3% tax rate now rises to 25.5%, meaning your real tax rate is actually 11.2% higher than what it seemed at first.