Salary rate
Annual
Month
Semimonthly
Weekly
Day
Hour
Withholding
Salary
300,024 kr
Direct Federal Tax 12,11%
- 33,371 kr
Communal tax
- 60,413 kr
Church tax
- 2,506 kr
Arbejdsmarkedets Tillaegspension (ATP)
- 1,136 kr
Total tax
- 97,426 kr
Net pay
* 202,598 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
202,598 kr
Net pay
13,922 kr
Tax the employer pays
97,426 kr
Tax you pay
Total tax paid
111,348 kr
Did you know your employer also pays tax on your salary? It costs the employer 13,922 kr to pay you 300,024 kr. In other words, every time you spend 10 kr of your hard-earned money, 3.71 kr goes to the government.
Real tax rate
35.5%
So, with you and the employer both paying tax, what used to be a 32.5% tax rate now rises to 35.5%, meaning your real tax rate is actually 3% higher than what it seemed at first.
Summary
If you make 300,024 kr a year living in the region of Lejre, Denmark, you will be taxed 97,426 kr. That means that your net pay will be 202,598 kr per year, or 16,883 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 32.56 kr, hence, your net pay will only increase by 67.44 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.
Compare average tax
North America
Country 
Net pay
Average tax
Rank
USA
DKK 238651
20.5%
1
Canada
DKK 215769
28.1%
2
Latin America
Country 
Net pay
Average tax
Rank
Guatemala
DKK 270987
9.7%
1
Puerto Rico
DKK 255025
15.0%
2
Costa Rica
DKK 252821
15.7%
3
Chile
DKK 246086
18.0%
4
Ecuador
DKK 244551
18.5%
5
Panama
DKK 238534
20.5%
6
Colombia
DKK 233501
22.2%
7
Peru
DKK 225599
24.8%
8
Mexico
DKK 221522
26.2%
9
Brazil
DKK 221451
26.2%
10
Uruguay
DKK 207681
30.8%
11
Argentina
DKK 194967
35.0%
12
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Africa
Country 
Net pay
Average tax
Rank
Angola
DKK 219481
26.9%
1
South Africa
DKK 219429
26.9%
2
Kenya
DKK 213565
28.8%
3
Mozambique
DKK 210504
29.8%
4
Ghana
DKK 205451
31.5%
5
Nigeria
DKK 204947
31.7%
6
Ivory Coast
DKK 200724
33.1%
7
Morocco
DKK 197637
34.1%
8
Cameroon
DKK 191301
36.2%
9
Uganda
DKK 190035
36.7%
10
Senegal
DKK 188026
37.3%
11
Zambia
DKK 186560
37.8%
12
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Middle East
Country 
Net pay
Average tax
Rank
United Arab Emirates
DKK 285023
5.0%
1
Qatar
DKK 285023
5.0%
2
Bahrain
DKK 276022
8.0%
3
Oman
DKK 276022
8.0%
4
Saudi Arabia
DKK 270022
10.0%
5
Kuwait
DKK 267021
11.0%
6
Israel
DKK 239097
20.3%
7
Egypt
DKK 226953
24.4%
8
Lebanon
DKK 226343
24.6%
9
Turkey
DKK 176079
41.3%
10
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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.