Salary rate
Annual
Month
Semimonthly
Weekly
Day
Hour
Withholding
Salary
2,375,356,609 BHD
Social Security
- 280 BHD
Unemployment
- 23,753,566 BHD
Total tax
- 23,753,846 BHD
Net pay
* 2,351,602,763 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
2,351,602,763 BHD
Net pay
23,754,046 BHD
Tax the employer pays
23,753,846 BHD
Tax you pay
Total tax paid
47,507,892 BHD
Did you know your employer also pays tax on your salary? It costs the employer 23,754,046 BHD to pay you 2,375,356,609 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 28,504,279,308 BHD a year living in Bahrain, you will be taxed 285,046,153 BHD. That means that your net pay will be 28,219,233,155 BHD per year, or 2,351,602,763 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.
Africa
Country 
Net pay
Average tax
Rank
Angola
BHD 20736863262
27.3%
1
Kenya
BHD 19952995706
30.0%
2
Ivory Coast
BHD 19449181931
31.8%
3
Nigeria
BHD 19388610832
32.0%
4
Ghana
BHD 18855581137
33.9%
5
Mozambique
BHD 18527782382
35.0%
6
Zambia
BHD 17530131884
38.5%
7
Cameroon
BHD 17354830920
39.1%
8
Morocco
BHD 17273252059
39.4%
9
Senegal
BHD 17102568015
40.0%
10
South Africa
BHD 15677357361
45.0%
11
Uganda
BHD 0
45.0%
12
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Middle East
Country 
Net pay
Average tax
Rank
Bahrain
BHD 28219233155
1.0%
1
Kuwait
BHD 28504275316
1.4%
2
Saudi Arabia
BHD 28504273890
1.9%
3
United Arab Emirates
BHD 27079065343
5.0%
4
Qatar
BHD 27079065343
5.0%
5
Oman
BHD 26223936963
8.0%
6
Egypt
BHD 21378209585
25.0%
7
Lebanon
BHD 0
25.0%
8
Turkey
BHD 16601177384
41.8%
9
Israel
BHD 14252148869
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.