Salary rate
Annual
Month
Semimonthly
Weekly
Day
Hour
Withholding
Salary
88 500 zł
Income Tax
- 7 882 zł
Pension Insurance
- 8 638 zł
Sickness Insurance
- 2 168 zł
Disability Insurance
- 1 328 zł
Health Insurance
- 6 873 zł
Total tax
- 26 889 zł
Net pay
* 61 611 zł
Marginal tax rate
36.1%
Average tax rate
30.4%
69.6%
Net pay
30.4%
Total tax
Total tax
Net pay
The Taxberg
61 611 zł
Net pay
18 120 zł
Tax the employer pays
26 889 zł
Tax you pay
Total tax paid
45 009 zł
Did you know your employer also pays tax on your salary? It costs the employer 18 120 zł to pay you 88 500 zł. In other words, every time you spend 10 zł of your hard-earned money, 5.09 zł goes to the government.
Real tax rate
42.2%
So, with you and the employer both paying tax, what used to be a 30.4% tax rate now rises to 42.2%, meaning your real tax rate is actually 11.8% higher than what it seemed at first.
Summary
If you make 88 500 zł a year living in Poland, you will be taxed 26 889 zł. That means that your net pay will be 61 611 zł per year, or 5 134 zł per month. Your average tax rate is 30.4% and your marginal tax rate is 36.1%. 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 36.14 zł, hence, your net pay will only increase by 63.86 zł.
Bonus Example
A 1 000 zł bonus will generate an extra 639 zł of net incomes. A 5 000 zł bonus will generate an extra 3 193 zł of net incomes.
Compare average tax
North America
Country 
Net pay
Average tax
Rank
USA
PLN 75 016
15.2%
1
Canada
PLN 65 759
25.7%
2
Africa
Country 
Net pay
Average tax
Rank
South Africa
PLN 72 406
18.2%
1
Mozambique
PLN 65 977
25.5%
2
Angola
PLN 65 093
26.5%
3
Kenya
PLN 64 023
27.7%
4
Morocco
PLN 62 876
29.0%
5
Ivory Coast
PLN 62 683
29.2%
6
Ghana
PLN 62 624
29.2%
7
Nigeria
PLN 60 706
31.4%
8
Cameroon
PLN 58 926
33.4%
9
Uganda
PLN 58 728
33.6%
10
Senegal
PLN 57 672
34.8%
11
Zambia
PLN 55 622
37.2%
12
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Middle East
Country 
Net pay
Average tax
Rank
United Arab Emirates
PLN 84 075
5.0%
1
Qatar
PLN 84 075
5.0%
2
Bahrain
PLN 81 420
8.0%
3
Oman
PLN 81 420
8.0%
4
Saudi Arabia
PLN 79 650
10.0%
5
Kuwait
PLN 78 765
11.0%
6
Israel
PLN 76 324
13.8%
7
Egypt
PLN 67 506
23.7%
8
Lebanon
PLN 67 149
24.1%
9
Turkey
PLN 51 504
41.8%
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.