Salary rate
Annual
Month
Semimonthly
Weekly
Day
Hour
Withholding
Salary
78,000 kr
Direct Federal Tax 12,11%
- 8,676 kr
Communal tax
- 15,680 kr
Church tax
- 656 kr
Arbejdsmarkedets Tillaegspension (ATP)
- 1,136 kr
Total tax
- 26,148 kr
Net pay
* 51,852 kr
Marginal tax rate
33.0%
Average tax rate
33.5%
66.5%
Net pay
33.5%
Total tax
Total tax
Net pay
The Taxberg
51,852 kr
Net pay
13,922 kr
Tax the employer pays
26,148 kr
Tax you pay
Total tax paid
40,069 kr
Did you know your employer also pays tax on your salary? It costs the employer 13,922 kr to pay you 78,000 kr. In other words, every time you spend 10 kr of your hard-earned money, 5.14 kr goes to the government.
Real tax rate
43.6%
So, with you and the employer both paying tax, what used to be a 33.5% tax rate now rises to 43.6%, meaning your real tax rate is actually 10.1% higher than what it seemed at first.
Summary
If you make 78,000 kr a year living in the region of Faxe, Denmark, you will be taxed 26,148 kr. That means that your net pay will be 51,852 kr per year, or 4,321 kr per month. Your average tax rate is 33.5% 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.
North America
Country 
Net pay
Average tax
Rank
USA
DKK 70373
9.8%
1
Canada
DKK 59594
23.6%
2
Latin America
Country 
Net pay
Average tax
Rank
Puerto Rico
DKK 71843
7.9%
1
Colombia
DKK 71504
8.3%
2
Ecuador
DKK 70629
9.5%
3
Guatemala
DKK 70521
9.6%
4
Costa Rica
DKK 69810
10.5%
5
Panama
DKK 69420
11.0%
6
Mexico
DKK 65254
16.3%
7
Chile
DKK 64272
17.6%
8
Brazil
DKK 63070
19.1%
9
Uruguay
DKK 62322
20.1%
10
Peru
DKK 61264
21.5%
11
Argentina
DKK 50651
35.1%
12
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Africa
Country 
Net pay
Average tax
Rank
South Africa
DKK 69562
10.8%
1
Morocco
DKK 60964
21.8%
2
Mozambique
DKK 60023
23.1%
3
Ivory Coast
DKK 58695
24.8%
4
Kenya
DKK 58149
25.5%
5
Angola
DKK 57941
25.7%
6
Ghana
DKK 57123
26.8%
7
Cameroon
DKK 56756
27.2%
8
Nigeria
DKK 53926
30.9%
9
Uganda
DKK 52759
32.4%
10
Senegal
DKK 52542
32.6%
11
Zambia
DKK 50015
35.9%
12
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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.