Salary rate
Annual
Month
Semimonthly
Weekly
Day
Hour
Withholding
Salary
8 604 zł
Pension Insurance
- 840 zł
Sickness Insurance
- 211 zł
Disability Insurance
- 129 zł
Health Insurance
- 668 zł
Total tax
- 1 848 zł
Net pay
* 6 756 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
6 756 zł
Net pay
1 762 zł
Tax the employer pays
1 848 zł
Tax you pay
Total tax paid
3 609 zł
Did you know your employer also pays tax on your salary? It costs the employer 1 762 zł to pay you 8 604 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 8 604 zł a year living in Poland, you will be taxed 1 848 zł. That means that your net pay will be 6 756 zł per year, or 563 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 7 859
8.7%
1
Canada
PLN 7 765
9.8%
2
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.