Salary rate
Annual
Month
Semimonthly
Weekly
Day
Hour
Withholding
Salary
13,746,373 BHD
Social Security
- 280 BHD
Unemployment
- 137,464 BHD
Total tax
- 137,744 BHD
Net pay
* 13,608,629 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
13,608,629 BHD
Net pay
137,944 BHD
Tax the employer pays
137,744 BHD
Tax you pay
Total tax paid
275,687 BHD
Did you know your employer also pays tax on your salary? It costs the employer 137,944 BHD to pay you 13,746,373 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 164,956,476 BHD a year living in Bahrain, you will be taxed 1,652,925 BHD. That means that your net pay will be 163,303,551 BHD per year, or 13,608,629 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 87935007
46.7%
1
Canada
BHD 76664737
53.5%
2
Africa
Country 
Net pay
Average tax
Rank
Angola
BHD 120005901
27.3%
1
Kenya
BHD 115469724
30.0%
2
Ivory Coast
BHD 112553479
31.8%
3
Nigeria
BHD 112203442
32.0%
4
Ghana
BHD 109119084
33.9%
5
Mozambique
BHD 107222541
35.0%
6
Zambia
BHD 101448343
38.5%
7
Cameroon
BHD 100434214
39.1%
8
Morocco
BHD 99962495
39.4%
9
Senegal
BHD 98974316
40.0%
10
South Africa
BHD 90729804
45.0%
11
Uganda
BHD 90727405
45.0%
12
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Middle East
Country 
Net pay
Average tax
Rank
Saudi Arabia
BHD 164951058
0.0%
1
Kuwait
BHD 164952484
0.0%
2
Bahrain
BHD 163303551
1.0%
3
United Arab Emirates
BHD 156708652
5.0%
4
Qatar
BHD 156708652
5.0%
5
Oman
BHD 151759958
8.0%
6
Egypt
BHD 123717461
25.0%
7
Lebanon
BHD 123717428
25.0%
8
Turkey
BHD 96072373
41.8%
9
Israel
BHD 82487453
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.