Salary rate
Annual
Month
Semimonthly
Weekly
Day
Hour
Withholding
Salary
109,000 kr
Direct Federal Tax 12,11%
- 12,124 kr
Communal tax
- 21,765 kr
Church tax
- 903 kr
Arbejdsmarkedets Tillaegspension (ATP)
- 1,136 kr
Total tax
- 35,928 kr
Net pay
* 73,072 kr
Marginal tax rate
32.6%
Average tax rate
33.0%
67.0%
Net pay
33.0%
Total tax
Total tax
Net pay
The Taxberg
73,072 kr
Net pay
13,922 kr
Tax the employer pays
35,928 kr
Tax you pay
Total tax paid
49,849 kr
Did you know your employer also pays tax on your salary? It costs the employer 13,922 kr to pay you 109,000 kr. In other words, every time you spend 10 kr of your hard-earned money, 4.57 kr goes to the government.
Real tax rate
40.6%
So, with you and the employer both paying tax, what used to be a 33% tax rate now rises to 40.6%, meaning your real tax rate is actually 7.6% higher than what it seemed at first.
Summary
If you make 109,000 kr a year living in the region of Lejre, Denmark, you will be taxed 35,928 kr. That means that your net pay will be 73,072 kr per year, or 6,089 kr per month. Your average tax rate is 33.0% and your marginal tax rate is 32.6%. 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 32.57 kr, hence, your net pay will only increase by 67.43 kr.
Bonus Example
A 1,000 kr bonus will generate an extra 674 kr of net incomes. A 5,000 kr bonus will generate an extra 3,372 kr of net incomes.
North America
Country 
Net pay
Average tax
Rank
USA
DKK 95791
12.1%
1
Canada
DKK 82067
24.7%
2
Latin America
Country 
Net pay
Average tax
Rank
Puerto Rico
DKK 98984
9.2%
1
Guatemala
DKK 98549
9.6%
2
Ecuador
DKK 97722
10.4%
3
Costa Rica
DKK 97555
10.5%
4
Colombia
DKK 96902
11.1%
5
Panama
DKK 94024
13.7%
6
Chile
DKK 88952
18.4%
7
Mexico
DKK 88762
18.6%
8
Uruguay
DKK 85666
21.4%
9
Peru
DKK 84592
22.4%
10
Brazil
DKK 82959
23.9%
11
Argentina
DKK 70801
35.0%
12
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Africa
Country 
Net pay
Average tax
Rank
South Africa
DKK 93242
14.5%
1
Mozambique
DKK 82343
24.5%
2
Morocco
DKK 80962
25.7%
3
Angola
DKK 80511
26.1%
4
Kenya
DKK 79849
26.7%
5
Ivory Coast
DKK 79329
27.2%
6
Ghana
DKK 79002
27.5%
7
Cameroon
DKK 75073
31.1%
8
Nigeria
DKK 75012
31.2%
9
Uganda
DKK 72909
33.1%
10
Senegal
DKK 72272
33.7%
11
Zambia
DKK 69080
36.6%
12
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NOTE* Withholding is calculated based on the Lejre 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.