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Re:Ask HN: How to increase SWE salaries in Europe? by georgeplusplus on Thursday January 14, 2021 @02:47AM (#25773400)
This is slightly misleading. The federal tax rate is a tiered system, meaning a portion of your income is taxed at a certain rate and income that exceeds that tier is taxed at a different rate after that and so on.

The federal tax rate is much lower if you account for that.

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Re:Ask HN: How to increase SWE salaries in Europe? by beagle3 on Thursday January 14, 2021 @03:01AM (#25773495)
Op did say “marginal rate”
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Re:Ask HN: How to increase SWE salaries in Europe? by nicoburns on Thursday January 14, 2021 @05:43AM (#25774809)
Yes, but you'd be amazed at how many people don't understand what that means. No doubt it's not true on HN, but a lot of people among the general public seem to be under the impression that the effective rate jumps at thresholds.
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Re:Ask HN: How to increase SWE salaries in Europe? by learnstats2 on Thursday January 14, 2021 @06:18AM (#25775020)
I personally know someone who turned down a payrise for this reason.
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