Salary rate
Annual
Month
Semimonthly
Weekly
Day
Hour
Withholding
Salary
1,422,721,176 BHD
Social Security
- 280 BHD
Unemployment
- 14,227,212 BHD
Total tax
- 14,227,492 BHD
Net pay
* 1,408,493,684 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
1,408,493,684 BHD
Net pay
14,227,692 BHD
Tax the employer pays
14,227,492 BHD
Tax you pay
Total tax paid
28,455,184 BHD
Did you know your employer also pays tax on your salary? It costs the employer 14,227,692 BHD to pay you 1,422,721,176 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 17,072,654,112 BHD a year living in Bahrain, you will be taxed 170,729,901 BHD. That means that your net pay will be 16,901,924,211 BHD per year, or 1,408,493,684 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 9099737847
46.7%
1
Canada
BHD 7933739459
53.5%
2
Africa
Country 
Net pay
Average tax
Rank
Angola
BHD 12420355932
27.3%
1
Kenya
BHD 11950858069
30.0%
2
Ivory Coast
BHD 11649098269
31.8%
3
Nigeria
BHD 11612819374
32.0%
4
Ghana
BHD 11293561070
33.9%
5
Mozambique
BHD 11097226005
35.0%
6
Zambia
BHD 10499682389
38.5%
7
Cameroon
BHD 10394685920
39.1%
8
Morocco
BHD 10345824370
39.4%
9
Senegal
BHD 10243592897
40.0%
10
South Africa
BHD 9389963504
45.0%
11
Uganda
BHD 9389961105
45.0%
12
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Middle East
Country 
Net pay
Average tax
Rank
Bahrain
BHD 16901924211
1.0%
1
Kuwait
BHD 17072650120
2.3%
2
Saudi Arabia
BHD 17072648694
3.2%
3
United Arab Emirates
BHD 16219021406
5.0%
4
Qatar
BHD 16219021406
5.0%
5
Oman
BHD 15706841783
8.0%
6
Egypt
BHD 12804490688
25.0%
7
Lebanon
BHD 0
25.0%
8
Turkey
BHD 9943284553
41.8%
9
Israel
BHD 8536336271
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.