Economy > Taxes > Taxes on the average worker > Taxes on the average worker per million: Countries Compared

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
	High income OECD countries average (profile)	9.11%	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	Hungary	5.43%	2009
9	Belgium	5.14%	2009
10	Ireland	5%	2009
11	New Zealand	4.99%	2009
12	Sweden	4.88%	2009
13	Czech Republic	4.09%	2009
14	Switzerland	3.82%	2009
15	Greece	3.75%	2009
16	Portugal	3.52%	2009
17	Netherlands	2.66%	2009
18	Australia	1.27%	2009
19	Poland	1.12%	2009
20	Canada	0.929%	2009
21	Spain	0.847%	2009
22	Italy	0.762%	2009
23	France	0.76%	2009
24	Germany	0.638%	2009
25	Turkey	0.599%	2009
	Group of 7 countries (G7) average (profile)	0.567%	2009
26	United Kingdom	0.552%	2009
27	South Korea	0.398%	2009
28	Japan	0.229%	2009
29	Mexico	0.131%	2009
30	United States	0.0977%	2009

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