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> So let's assume you live in the Bay Area (California). New Federal income tax is 35% for that salary range then add 13% coming from beautiful and sunny California. We're at a 48 % tax rate. Let's round that up to 50% to simplify our maths.

What's unclear about that? 35% + 13% = 48% = about 50%. After that, it's just a matter of removing 50% from 300k to arrive at 150k.



35% is the marginal tax rate. The actual tax on 300k is 27%.




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