Salary rate
Annual
Month
Semimonthly
Weekly
Day
Hour
Withholding
Salary
1,814,404,800 BHD
Social Security
- 280 BHD
Unemployment
- 18,144,048 BHD
Total tax
- 18,144,328 BHD
Net pay
* 1,796,260,472 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
1,796,260,472 BHD
Net pay
18,144,528 BHD
Tax the employer pays
18,144,328 BHD
Tax you pay
Total tax paid
36,288,856 BHD
Did you know your employer also pays tax on your salary? It costs the employer 18,144,528 BHD to pay you 1,814,404,800 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 21,772,857,600 BHD a year living in Bahrain, you will be taxed 217,731,936 BHD. That means that your net pay will be 21,555,125,664 BHD per year, or 1,796,260,472 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 11604946306
46.7%
1
Canada
BHD 10117942821
53.5%
2
Middle East
Country 
Net pay
Average tax
Rank
Bahrain
BHD 21555125664
1.0%
1
Kuwait
BHD 21772853608
1.8%
2
Saudi Arabia
BHD 21772852182
2.5%
3
United Arab Emirates
BHD 20684214720
5.0%
4
Qatar
BHD 20684214720
5.0%
5
Oman
BHD 20031028992
8.0%
6
Egypt
BHD 16329643304
25.0%
7
Lebanon
BHD 0
25.0%
8
Turkey
BHD 12680730067
41.8%
9
Israel
BHD 10886438015
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.