Average Tax Rates on Salaries up to $1,000,000 [2009]

by Catherine on June 14, 2010

in Comparing Tax Rates by Income, VE Infographics

I wanted to try out the new Tableau Public so I took the Average Tax Rates I calculated for my Comparing Rates by Income series and created this little graph. A couple disclaimers: I am assuming standard deduction and exemptions for the children and/or spouse in each example. Also I am combining all the taxes applied to your salary including: Income, Social Security, Medicare, and Payroll (paid by your employer).

Since this is a live, interactive chart you can hide/show each line using the check boxes at the bottom of the graph.

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Tagged as: Average Tax Rate, Line Graph, Tax Rates, United States

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1 LVTfan (google it!): This would be more useful if you could provide some measure showing what percentage of the population falls into each group. Looking at this, one might tend to think that people/taxpayers were evenly distributed across the spectrum, and of course this is not the case.

Also relevant would be to show what percentage of the total salary income goes to taxpayers in each chunk of the horizontal axis.

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