Salary rate
Annual
Month
Semimonthly
Weekly
Day
Hour
Withholding
Salary
1,120,892,413 BHD
Social Security
- 280 BHD
Unemployment
- 11,208,924 BHD
Total tax
- 11,209,204 BHD
Net pay
* 1,109,683,209 BHD
Marginal tax rate
1.0%
Average tax rate
1.0%
99.0%
Net pay
1.0%
Total tax
Total tax
Net pay
The Taxberg
1,109,683,209 BHD
Net pay
11,209,404 BHD
Tax the employer pays
11,209,204 BHD
Tax you pay
Total tax paid
22,418,608 BHD
Did you know your employer also pays tax on your salary? It costs the employer 11,209,404 BHD to pay you 1,120,892,413 BHD. In other words, every time you spend 10 BHD of your hard-earned money, 0.20 BHD goes to the government.
Real tax rate
2.0%
So, with you and the employer both paying tax, what used to be a 1% tax rate now rises to 2.0%, meaning your real tax rate is actually 1% higher than what it seemed at first.
Summary
If you make 13,450,708,956 BHD a year living in Bahrain, you will be taxed 134,510,450 BHD. That means that your net pay will be 13,316,198,506 BHD per year, or 1,109,683,209 BHD per month. Your average tax rate is 1.0% and your marginal tax rate is 1.0%. This marginal tax rate means that your immediate additional income will be taxed at this rate. For instance, an increase of 100 BHD in your salary will be taxed 1 BHD, hence, your net pay will only increase by 99 BHD.
Bonus Example
A 1,000 BHD bonus will generate an extra 990 BHD of net incomes. A 5,000 BHD bonus will generate an extra 4,950 BHD of net incomes.
Compare average tax
North America
Country 
Net pay
Average tax
Rank
USA
BHD 7169241079
46.7%
1
Canada
BHD 6250607057
53.5%
2
Africa
Country 
Net pay
Average tax
Rank
Angola
BHD 9785390831
27.3%
1
Kenya
BHD 9415496460
30.0%
2
Ivory Coast
BHD 9177754540
31.8%
3
Nigeria
BHD 9149172279
32.0%
4
Ghana
BHD 8897644350
33.9%
5
Mozambique
BHD 8742961653
35.0%
6
Zambia
BHD 8272186118
38.5%
7
Cameroon
BHD 8189464611
39.1%
8
Morocco
BHD 8150969069
39.4%
9
Senegal
BHD 8070425804
40.0%
10
South Africa
BHD 7397893668
45.0%
11
Uganda
BHD 7397891269
45.0%
12
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Middle East
Country 
Net pay
Average tax
Rank
Bahrain
BHD 13316198506
1.0%
1
Kuwait
BHD 13450704964
3.0%
2
Saudi Arabia
BHD 13450703538
4.0%
3
United Arab Emirates
BHD 12778173508
5.0%
4
Qatar
BHD 12778173508
5.0%
5
Oman
BHD 12374652240
8.0%
6
Egypt
BHD 10088031821
25.0%
7
Lebanon
BHD 0
25.0%
8
Turkey
BHD 7833827475
41.8%
9
Israel
BHD 6725363693
50.0%
10
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NOTE* Withholding is calculated based on the tables of Bahrain, 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.