Salary rate
Annual
Month
Semimonthly
Weekly
Day
Hour
Withholding
Salary
1,521,260 TL
Social Security
- 63,926 TL
Unemployment insurance
- 15,213 TL
Income Tax
- 538,004 TL
Stamp Tax
- 11,546 TL
Total tax
- 628,689 TL
Net pay
* 892,571 TL
Marginal tax rate
41.8%
Average tax rate
41.3%
58.7%
Net pay
41.3%
Total tax
Total tax
Net pay
The Taxberg
892,571 TL
Net pay
124,031 TL
Tax the employer pays
628,689 TL
Tax you pay
Total tax paid
752,720 TL
Did you know your employer also pays tax on your salary? It costs the employer 124,031 TL to pay you 1,521,260 TL. In other words, every time you spend 10 TL of your hard-earned money, 4.95 TL goes to the government.
Real tax rate
45.7%
So, with you and the employer both paying tax, what used to be a 41.3% tax rate now rises to 45.7%, meaning your real tax rate is actually 4.4% higher than what it seemed at first.
Summary
If you make 1,521,260 TL a year living in Turkey, you will be taxed 628,689 TL. That means that your net pay will be 892,571 TL per year, or 74,381 TL per month. Your average tax rate is 41.3% 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.
North America
Country 
Net pay
Average tax
Rank
USA
TRY 1207205
20.6%
1
Canada
TRY 1090796
28.3%
2
Asia / Pacific
Country 
Net pay
Average tax
Rank
Hong Kong
TRY 1377210
9.5%
1
Taiwan
TRY 1328240
12.7%
2
Thailand
TRY 1267668
16.7%
3
South Korea
TRY 1232686
19.0%
4
Kazakhstan
TRY 1223239
19.6%
5
Australia
TRY 1210896
20.4%
6
New Zealand
TRY 1183746
22.2%
7
Singapore
TRY 1168359
23.2%
8
Indonesia
TRY 1154623
24.1%
9
Pakistan
TRY 1142200
24.9%
10
Japan
TRY 1134040
25.5%
11
Malaysia
TRY 1113023
26.8%
12
Philippines
TRY 1092884
28.2%
13
Vietnam
TRY 1047266
31.2%
14
China
TRY 999640
34.3%
15
India
TRY 943526
38.0%
16
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Middle East
Country 
Net pay
Average tax
Rank
United Arab Emirates
TRY 1445197
5.0%
1
Qatar
TRY 1445197
5.0%
2
Bahrain
TRY 1399560
8.0%
3
Oman
TRY 1399559
8.0%
4
Saudi Arabia
TRY 1369134
10.0%
5
Kuwait
TRY 1353921
11.0%
6
Israel
TRY 1207540
20.6%
7
Egypt
TRY 1150424
24.4%
8
Lebanon
TRY 1147437
24.6%
9
Turkey
TRY 892571
41.3%
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.