Salary rate
Annual
Month
Semimonthly
Weekly
Day
Hour
Withholding
Salary
1,605,391,486 BHD
Social Security
- 280 BHD
Unemployment
- 16,053,915 BHD
Total tax
- 16,054,195 BHD
Net pay
* 1,589,337,291 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
1,589,337,291 BHD
Net pay
16,054,395 BHD
Tax the employer pays
16,054,195 BHD
Tax you pay
Total tax paid
32,108,590 BHD
Did you know your employer also pays tax on your salary? It costs the employer 16,054,395 BHD to pay you 1,605,391,486 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 19,264,697,832 BHD a year living in Bahrain, you will be taxed 192,650,338 BHD. That means that your net pay will be 19,072,047,494 BHD per year, or 1,589,337,291 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.
North America
Country 
Net pay
Average tax
Rank
USA
BHD 10268097150
46.7%
1
Canada
BHD 8952390944
53.5%
2
Middle East
Country 
Net pay
Average tax
Rank
Bahrain
BHD 19072047494
1.0%
1
Kuwait
BHD 19264693840
2.1%
2
Saudi Arabia
BHD 19264692414
2.8%
3
United Arab Emirates
BHD 18301462940
5.0%
4
Qatar
BHD 18301462940
5.0%
5
Oman
BHD 17723522005
8.0%
6
Egypt
BHD 14448523478
25.0%
7
Lebanon
BHD 0
25.0%
8
Turkey
BHD 11219952736
41.8%
9
Israel
BHD 9632358131
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.