High income OECD countries Compared by Economy > Taxes > Taxes on the average worker > Taxes on the average worker per million

DEFINITION: The taxes included in the measure are personal income taxes, employees’ social security contributions and employers’ social security contributions. For the few countries that have them, it also includes payroll taxes. The amount of these taxes paid in relation to the employment of one average worker is expressed as a percentage of their labour cost (gross wage plus employers’ social security contributions and payroll tax).

An average worker is defined as somebody who earns the average income of full-time workers of the country concerned in sectors C-K of the International Standard Industrial Classification (ISIC). The average worker is single, meaning that he or she does not receive any tax relief in respect of a spouse, unmarried partner or child. Figures expressed per million population for the same year.

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#	COUNTRY	AMOUNT	DATE
1	Iceland	88.72%	2009
2	Luxembourg	75.42%	2009
3	Finland	8.18%	2009
4	Norway	7.77%	2009
5	Denmark	7.48%	2009
6	Slovakia	7.11%	2009
7	Austria	5.8%	2009
8	Belgium	5.14%	2009
9	Ireland	5%	2009
10	New Zealand	4.99%	2009
11	Sweden	4.88%	2009
12	Czech Republic	4.09%	2009
13	Switzerland	3.82%	2009
14	Greece	3.75%	2009
15	Portugal	3.52%	2009
16	Netherlands	2.66%	2009
17	Australia	1.27%	2009
18	Poland	1.12%	2009
19	Canada	0.929%	2009
20	Spain	0.847%	2009
21	Italy	0.762%	2009
22	France	0.76%	2009
23	Germany	0.638%	2009
24	United Kingdom	0.552%	2009
25	South Korea	0.398%	2009
26	Japan	0.229%	2009
27	United States	0.0977%	2009

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