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Highlights
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Effective tax rates on labour income increased across OECD countries in 2025, especially for households with children, according to a new OECD report.Learn more
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Discover highlights and key findings from this year's publication.Learn more
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6 min readThe OECD sheds light on this balancing act in its latest edition of Taxing Wages by examining the progressivity of labour taxes in OECD countries – the extent to which effective tax rates increase depending on workers’ earnings or vary according to whether they are married or have children.Learn more
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In the latest episode of the OECD Behind the Numbers podcast, host Ashley Ward is joined by Alexander Pick and Edoardo Magalini to explain what the tax wedge tells us about wages, the choices couples and families make about work, and household budgets.Learn more
Data
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Comparative indicators on labour taxation across the OECD member countries.Learn more
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Detailed data on the labour taxes paid in OECD member countries.Learn more
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Data on the average and marginal effective tax burdens for four different household types. The results are displayed for all the earnings levels between 50% and 250% of the average wage for the principal earner in each household type.Learn more
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Data on personal income statutory and marginal rates, central and sub-central government rates, and average and marginal PIT & SSC by household. They also cover social security contribution rates, and related provisions on the representative case, for the employee, employer and self-employed workers of that country.Learn more
Related documents
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Annual report collecting and summarising information on NTCPs paid by both employees and employers across OECD member countries.Learn more
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Additional country information on the data on central and sub-central rates and threshold for progressive and non-progressive systems, presented on the OECD Data.Explorer.Learn more
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Additional country information on the data on employer, employee and self-non-employed systems, presented on the OECD Data.Explorer.Learn more