I'm not an expert on this but a quick check online and I found tax brackets for California: $35,000-$80,000 [25%] $80,000-$170,000 [28%] I'm just going

I'm not an expert on this but a quick check online and I found tax brackets for California: $35,000-$80,000 [25%] $80,000-$170,000 [28%] I'm just going to let you know that in Europe (Austria) personal income of 32,076 to 62,080 is taxed at 42% rate above 60k is taxed with 50%. And this does not include social and health insurance that is mandatory... To give you TLDR of the European experience, you look at the gross salary, multiply by 0.45 and this is the real money you would see landing in your account, .. enjoy .. :)