Salary rate
Annual
Month
Semimonthly
Weekly
Day
Hour
Withholding
Salary
261,660 kr
Direct Federal Tax 12,11%
- 29,104 kr
Communal tax
- 52,514 kr
Church tax
- 2,179 kr
Arbejdsmarkedets Tillaegspension (ATP)
- 1,136 kr
Total tax
- 84,932 kr
Net pay
* 176,728 kr
Marginal tax rate
32.6%
Average tax rate
32.5%
67.5%
Net pay
32.5%
Total tax
Total tax
Net pay
The Taxberg
176,728 kr
Net pay
13,922 kr
Tax the employer pays
84,932 kr
Tax you pay
Total tax paid
98,854 kr
Did you know your employer also pays tax on your salary? It costs the employer 13,922 kr to pay you 261,660 kr. In other words, every time you spend 10 kr of your hard-earned money, 3.78 kr goes to the government.
Real tax rate
35.9%
So, with you and the employer both paying tax, what used to be a 32.5% tax rate now rises to 35.9%, meaning your real tax rate is actually 3.4% higher than what it seemed at first.
Summary
If you make 261,660 kr a year living in the region of Lejre, Denmark, you will be taxed 84,932 kr. That means that your net pay will be 176,728 kr per year, or 14,727 kr per month. Your average tax rate is 32.5% 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 210266
19.6%
1
Canada
DKK 190980
27.0%
2
Latin America
Country 
Net pay
Average tax
Rank
Guatemala
DKK 236571
9.6%
1
Puerto Rico
DKK 224966
14.0%
2
Costa Rica
DKK 223636
14.5%
3
Ecuador
DKK 216760
17.2%
4
Chile
DKK 211409
19.2%
5
Panama
DKK 209512
19.9%
6
Colombia
DKK 206655
21.0%
7
Peru
DKK 197738
24.4%
8
Mexico
DKK 195731
25.2%
9
Brazil
DKK 193637
26.0%
10
Uruguay
DKK 184385
29.5%
11
Argentina
DKK 170030
35.0%
12
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Africa
Country 
Net pay
Average tax
Rank
South Africa
DKK 196004
25.1%
1
Angola
DKK 191571
26.8%
2
Kenya
DKK 186711
28.6%
3
Mozambique
DKK 185567
29.1%
4
Ghana
DKK 180074
31.2%
5
Nigeria
DKK 178852
31.7%
6
Ivory Coast
DKK 176964
32.4%
7
Morocco
DKK 174389
33.4%
8
Uganda
DKK 168935
35.4%
9
Cameroon
DKK 167943
35.8%
10
Senegal
DKK 165007
36.9%
11
Zambia
DKK 162966
37.7%
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.