Salary rate
Annual
Month
Semimonthly
Weekly
Day
Hour
Withholding
Salary
2,359,998 TL
Social Security
- 5,327 TL
Unemployment insurance
- 23,600 TL
Income Tax
- 938,124 TL
Stamp Tax
- 17,912 TL
Total tax
- 984,964 TL
Net pay
* 1,375,034 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
1,375,034 TL
Net pay
55,000 TL
Tax the employer pays
984,964 TL
Tax you pay
Total tax paid
1,039,964 TL
Did you know your employer also pays tax on your salary? It costs the employer 55,000 TL to pay you 2,359,998 TL. In other words, every time you spend 10 TL of your hard-earned money, 4.41 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 28,319,976 TL a year living in Turkey, you will be taxed 11,819,565 TL. That means that your net pay will be 16,500,411 TL per year, or 1,375,034 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.
Middle East
Country 
Net pay
Average tax
Rank
Kuwait
TRY 27955838
1.3%
1
Saudi Arabia
TRY 27825722
1.8%
2
Bahrain
TRY 27730279
2.1%
3
United Arab Emirates
TRY 26903977
5.0%
4
Qatar
TRY 26903977
5.0%
5
Oman
TRY 26054378
8.0%
6
Egypt
TRY 21249461
25.0%
7
Lebanon
TRY 21246474
25.0%
8
Turkey
TRY 16500411
41.7%
9
Israel
TRY 15000540
47.0%
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.