Salary rate
Annual
Month
Semimonthly
Weekly
Day
Hour
Withholding
Salary
8 104 zł
Pension Insurance
- 791 zł
Sickness Insurance
- 199 zł
Disability Insurance
- 122 zł
Health Insurance
- 629 zł
Total tax
- 1 740 zł
Net pay
* 6 364 zł
Marginal tax rate
21.5%
Average tax rate
21.5%
78.5%
Net pay
21.5%
Total tax
Total tax
Net pay
The Taxberg
6 364 zł
Net pay
1 659 zł
Tax the employer pays
1 740 zł
Tax you pay
Total tax paid
3 400 zł
Did you know your employer also pays tax on your salary? It costs the employer 1 659 zł to pay you 8 104 zł. In other words, every time you spend 10 zł of your hard-earned money, 4.20 zł goes to the government.
Real tax rate
34.8%
So, with you and the employer both paying tax, what used to be a 21.5% tax rate now rises to 34.8%, meaning your real tax rate is actually 13.3% higher than what it seemed at first.
Summary
If you make 8 104 zł a year living in Poland, you will be taxed 1 740 zł. That means that your net pay will be 6 364 zł per year, or 530 zł per month. Your average tax rate is 21.5% and your marginal tax rate is 21.5%. This marginal tax rate means that your immediate additional income will be taxed at this rate. For instance, an increase of 100 zł in your salary will be taxed 21.48 zł, hence, your net pay will only increase by 78.52 zł.
Bonus Example
A 1 000 zł bonus will generate an extra 785 zł of net incomes. A 5 000 zł bonus will generate an extra 3 926 zł of net incomes.
Compare average tax
North America
Country 
Net pay
Average tax
Rank
USA
PLN 7 402
8.7%
1
Canada
PLN 7 347
9.4%
2
Latin America
Country 
Net pay
Average tax
Rank
Mexico
PLN 7 912
2.4%
1
Brazil
PLN 7 496
7.5%
2
Puerto Rico
PLN 7 460
8.0%
3
Colombia
PLN 7 456
8.0%
4
Ecuador
PLN 7 338
9.5%
5
Guatemala
PLN 7 327
9.6%
6
Costa Rica
PLN 7 253
10.5%
7
Panama
PLN 7 213
11.0%
8
Peru
PLN 7 091
12.5%
9
Argentina
PLN 6 726
17.0%
10
Chile
PLN 6 678
17.6%
11
Uruguay
PLN 6 637
18.1%
12
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Africa
Country 
Net pay
Average tax
Rank
South Africa
PLN 8 023
1.0%
1
Morocco
PLN 7 558
6.7%
2
Zambia
PLN 7 546
6.9%
3
Ivory Coast
PLN 7 081
12.6%
4
Kenya
PLN 7 073
12.7%
5
Cameroon
PLN 6 838
15.6%
6
Mozambique
PLN 6 742
16.8%
7
Senegal
PLN 6 594
18.6%
8
Ghana
PLN 6 581
18.8%
9
Uganda
PLN 6 525
19.5%
10
Angola
PLN 6 300
22.3%
11
Nigeria
PLN 6 004
25.9%
12
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Middle East
Country 
Net pay
Average tax
Rank
Saudi Arabia
PLN 8 104
0.0%
1
United Arab Emirates
PLN 7 699
5.0%
2
Qatar
PLN 7 699
5.0%
3
Bahrain
PLN 7 456
8.0%
4
Oman
PLN 7 456
8.0%
5
Kuwait
PLN 7 213
11.0%
6
Israel
PLN 7 038
13.2%
7
Lebanon
PLN 6 765
16.5%
8
Egypt
PLN 6 426
20.7%
9
Turkey
PLN 5 474
32.5%
10
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NOTE* Withholding is calculated based on the Polska tables of Poland, 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.