Total tax paid
£6,020
Did you know your employer also pays tax on your salary? It costs the employer £3,179 to pay you £21,120. In other words, every time you spend £10 of your hard-earned money, £2.85 goes to the government.
Real tax rate
24.8%
So, with you and the employer both paying tax, what used to be a 13.5% tax rate now rises to 24.8%, meaning your real tax rate is actually 11.3% higher than what it seemed at first.