Salary rate
Annual
Month
Semimonthly
Weekly
Day
Hour
Withholding
Salary
19,680,000 TL
Social Security
- 63,926 TL
Unemployment insurance
- 196,800 TL
Income Tax
- 7,801,500 TL
Stamp Tax
- 149,371 TL
Total tax
- 8,211,597 TL
Net pay
* 11,468,403 TL
Marginal tax rate
41.8%
Average tax rate
41.7%
58.3%
Net pay
41.7%
Total tax
Total tax
Net pay
The Taxberg
11,468,403 TL
Net pay
487,206 TL
Tax the employer pays
8,211,597 TL
Tax you pay
Total tax paid
8,698,803 TL
Did you know your employer also pays tax on your salary? It costs the employer 487,206 TL to pay you 19,680,000 TL. In other words, every time you spend 10 TL of your hard-earned money, 4.42 TL goes to the government.
Real tax rate
43.1%
So, with you and the employer both paying tax, what used to be a 41.7% tax rate now rises to 43.1%, meaning your real tax rate is actually 1.4% higher than what it seemed at first.
Summary
If you make 19,680,000 TL a year living in Turkey, you will be taxed 8,211,597 TL. That means that your net pay will be 11,468,403 TL per year, or 955,700 TL per month. Your average tax rate is 41.7% and your marginal tax rate is 41.8%. This marginal tax rate means that your immediate additional income will be taxed at this rate. For instance, an increase of 100 TL in your salary will be taxed 41.76 TL, hence, your net pay will only increase by 58.24 TL.
Bonus Example
A 1,000 TL bonus will generate an extra 582 TL of net incomes. A 5,000 TL bonus will generate an extra 2,912 TL of net incomes.
Compare average tax
North America
Country 
Net pay
Average tax
Rank
USA
TRY 11683985
40.6%
1
Canada
TRY 9948354
49.5%
2
Latin America
Country 
Net pay
Average tax
Rank
Guatemala
TRY 17445048
11.4%
1
Brazil
TRY 14287269
27.4%
2
Costa Rica
TRY 13599222
30.9%
3
Panama
TRY 13364739
32.1%
4
Mexico
TRY 12957574
34.2%
5
Puerto Rico
TRY 12918387
34.4%
6
Uruguay
TRY 12889847
34.5%
7
Colombia
TRY 12813890
34.9%
8
Argentina
TRY 12791761
35.0%
9
Chile
TRY 12645508
35.7%
10
Peru
TRY 12324566
37.4%
11
Ecuador
TRY 11695097
40.6%
12
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Africa
Country 
Net pay
Average tax
Rank
Angola
TRY 14323144
27.2%
1
Kenya
TRY 13793383
29.9%
2
Nigeria
TRY 13390600
32.0%
3
Ivory Coast
TRY 13387270
32.0%
4
Ghana
TRY 13052539
33.7%
5
Mozambique
TRY 12867871
34.6%
6
Zambia
TRY 12113218
38.5%
7
Cameroon
TRY 12024449
38.9%
8
Morocco
TRY 12003367
39.0%
9
Senegal
TRY 11847243
39.8%
10
South Africa
TRY 11165343
43.3%
11
Uganda
TRY 10946570
44.4%
12
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Middle East
Country 
Net pay
Average tax
Rank
Kuwait
TRY 19315861
1.9%
1
Saudi Arabia
TRY 19185746
2.5%
2
Bahrain
TRY 19176703
2.6%
3
United Arab Emirates
TRY 18696000
5.0%
4
Qatar
TRY 18696000
5.0%
5
Oman
TRY 18105600
8.0%
6
Egypt
TRY 14769479
25.0%
7
Lebanon
TRY 14766492
25.0%
8
Turkey
TRY 11468403
41.7%
9
Israel
TRY 10680552
45.7%
10
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NOTE* Withholding is calculated based on the tables of Turkey, 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.