Total tax paid
£2,385
Did you know your employer also pays tax on your salary? It costs the employer £715 to pay you £4,750. In other words, every time you spend £10 of your hard-earned money, £5.02 goes to the government.
Real tax rate
43.7%
So, with you and the employer both paying tax, what used to be a 35.2% tax rate now rises to 43.7%, meaning your real tax rate is actually 8.5% higher than what it seemed at first.