Salary rate
Annual
Month
Semimonthly
Weekly
Day
Hour
Withholding
Salary
170,520 kr
Direct Federal Tax 12,11%
- 18,967 kr
Communal tax
- 35,098 kr
Church tax
- 1,469 kr
Arbejdsmarkedets Tillaegspension (ATP)
- 1,136 kr
Total tax
- 56,670 kr
Net pay
* 113,850 kr
Marginal tax rate
33.0%
Average tax rate
33.2%
66.8%
Net pay
33.2%
Total tax
Total tax
Net pay
The Taxberg
113,850 kr
Net pay
13,922 kr
Tax the employer pays
56,670 kr
Tax you pay
Total tax paid
70,591 kr
Did you know your employer also pays tax on your salary? It costs the employer 13,922 kr to pay you 170,520 kr. In other words, every time you spend 10 kr of your hard-earned money, 4.14 kr goes to the government.
Real tax rate
38.3%
So, with you and the employer both paying tax, what used to be a 33.2% tax rate now rises to 38.3%, meaning your real tax rate is actually 5.1% higher than what it seemed at first.
Summary
If you make 170,520 kr a year living in the region of Faxe, Denmark, you will be taxed 56,670 kr. That means that your net pay will be 113,850 kr per year, or 9,488 kr per month. Your average tax rate is 33.2% and your marginal tax rate is 33.0%. 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 32.99 kr, hence, your net pay will only increase by 67.01 kr.
Bonus Example
A 1,000 kr bonus will generate an extra 670 kr of net incomes. A 5,000 kr bonus will generate an extra 3,351 kr of net incomes.
Compare average tax
North America
Country 
Net pay
Average tax
Rank
USA
DKK 142761
16.3%
1
Canada
DKK 126670
25.7%
2
Latin America
Country 
Net pay
Average tax
Rank
Guatemala
DKK 154170
9.6%
1
Costa Rica
DKK 151527
11.1%
2
Puerto Rico
DKK 151491
11.2%
3
Ecuador
DKK 147253
13.6%
4
Colombia
DKK 142853
16.2%
5
Panama
DKK 140564
17.6%
6
Chile
DKK 137595
19.3%
7
Mexico
DKK 134127
21.3%
8
Peru
DKK 130885
23.2%
9
Brazil
DKK 127561
25.2%
10
Uruguay
DKK 124133
27.2%
11
Argentina
DKK 110789
35.0%
12
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Africa
Country 
Net pay
Average tax
Rank
South Africa
DKK 137101
19.6%
1
Mozambique
DKK 126035
26.1%
2
Angola
DKK 125267
26.5%
3
Kenya
DKK 122913
27.9%
4
Ivory Coast
DKK 119823
29.7%
5
Ghana
DKK 119785
29.8%
6
Morocco
DKK 119159
30.1%
7
Nigeria
DKK 116858
31.5%
8
Uganda
DKK 112897
33.8%
9
Cameroon
DKK 112452
34.1%
10
Senegal
DKK 110323
35.3%
11
Zambia
DKK 106915
37.3%
12
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Middle East
Country 
Net pay
Average tax
Rank
United Arab Emirates
DKK 161994
5.0%
1
Qatar
DKK 161994
5.0%
2
Bahrain
DKK 156878
8.0%
3
Oman
DKK 156878
8.0%
4
Saudi Arabia
DKK 153468
10.0%
5
Kuwait
DKK 151763
11.0%
6
Israel
DKK 145235
14.8%
7
Egypt
DKK 129825
23.9%
8
Lebanon
DKK 129215
24.2%
9
Turkey
DKK 100198
41.2%
10
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NOTE* Withholding is calculated based on the Faxe tables of Denmark, 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.