Salary rate
Annual
Month
Semimonthly
Weekly
Day
Hour
Withholding
Salary
17 520 kr
Municipal tax
- 86.27 kr
Total tax
- 86.27 kr
Net pay
* 17 434 kr
Marginal tax rate
2.3%
Average tax rate
0.5%
99.5%
Net pay
0.5%
Total tax
Total tax
Net pay
The Taxberg
17 434 kr
Net pay
5 505 kr
Tax the employer pays
86.27 kr
Tax you pay
Total tax paid
5 591 kr
Did you know your employer also pays tax on your salary? It costs the employer 5 505 kr to pay you 17 520 kr. In other words, every time you spend 10 kr of your hard-earned money, 3.19 kr goes to the government.
Real tax rate
24.3%
So, with you and the employer both paying tax, what used to be a 0.5% tax rate now rises to 24.3%, meaning your real tax rate is actually 23.8% higher than what it seemed at first.
Summary
If you make 17 520 kr a year living in the region of Stockholm, Sweden, you will be taxed 86.27 kr. That means that your net pay will be 17 434 kr per year, or 1 453 kr per month. Your average tax rate is 0.5% and your marginal tax rate is 2.3%. This marginal tax rate means that your immediate additional income will be taxed at this rate. For instance, an increase of 100 kr in your salary will be taxed 2.27 kr, hence, your net pay will only increase by 97.73 kr.
Bonus Example
A 1 000 kr bonus will generate an extra 977 kr of net incomes. A 5 000 kr bonus will generate an extra 4 887 kr of net incomes.
Compare average tax
North America
Country 
Net pay
Average tax
Rank
Canada
SEK 16 162
7.8%
1
USA
SEK 16 003
8.7%
2
NOTE* Withholding is calculated based on the Stockholm tables of Sweden, income tax. For simplification purposes some variables (such as marital status and others) have been assumed. This document does not represent legal authority and shall be used for approximation purposes only.