PIT & social security rates: rankings

Notes:

Each bar shows one jurisdiction’s value of the selected measure in the year displayed; the top bar is rank 1, the highest value that year. Press play to watch the rankings re-order year by year, or drag the slider to any year. All jurisdictions with published values are shown — there is no top-N cut — and the horizontal scale is fixed across the whole run, so only the bars move.

Member-state bars are shaded light to dark blue by that year’s value; the OECD average is drawn in orange and sits outside the shading scale. The EU22-in-OECD aggregate is excluded. Rate measures are expressed as a percentage of gross wage earnings (or of total labour costs, for the tax wedge measures); monetary measures — gross earnings, gross labour costs and net income — are shown in US dollars converted at purchasing power parity, so levels are comparable across jurisdictions.

Earnings levels are defined relative to each jurisdiction’s average wage: for example, “100% + 67%” denotes a two-earner couple where the principal earns the average wage and the spouse earns 67% of it. The married and not-married cases carry different household types, so the household choices change with the civil status. A handful of measures can dip below zero for some households (where credits and benefits exceed the tax due); the chart floors at zero, so a negative bar draws no length — its value still appears beside the axis and on hover.

Source: OECD – Labour taxation: Comparative country indicators (OECD Taxing Wages), via the OECD Data Explorer.