OECD Taxing Wages 2025 · PPP 2023 · extract July 24, 2026
OECD take-home statistics from the live extract
Key findings on coverage, dual ladders, and one zero-filled official row. These are published-index counts, not tax advice.
- Countries
- 38
- Scenarios
- 3,306
- CL lightest employee
- 8.4%
- CO PPP #1
- $227,332
38 OECD countries, 3,306 scenarios. Colombia leads PPP take-home at $100,000 single; Chile leads employee deductions at 8.4%. Official OECD wedges omit Colombia's zero-filled Taxing Wages row (37 populated). Greece is #1 on employee deductions and #19 on the official wedge.
Key findings
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- 3,306 take-home rows equal 38 × 29 × 3 (38 OECD countries, 29 gross salaries from $20,000 to $300,000, three Taxing Wages household models). Do not add the family-type tables beside 3,306.
- $227,332 is Colombia's PPP-adjusted take-home at $100,000 single (#1 of 38). Chile is #2 at $156,779. Chile has the lightest employee deduction rate at 8.4%. The PPP ladder and the paycheck-deduction ladder are not the same ranking.
- 45.1% is Greece's employee tax+SSC share of gross at $100,000 single (#1 of 38). On the official OECD tax wedge (employer SSC included, labour-cost denominator) Greece is #19 of 37 populated 2025 rows at 39.3%. France's official wedge is 47.2% while employee deductions are 33.6%, with employer SSC listed at 36.3% of that Taxing Wages row. The two wedges are not interchangeable.
- 1 of 38 official 2025 100% AW single Taxing Wages rows is zero-filled (Colombia: income tax, employee SSC, employer SSC, and total wedge all 0). Do not cite Colombia as a 0% OECD tax wedge. Chile is the populated floor at 7.5% (#1 of 37).
- $26,191 is how much farther a one-earner married couple with two children stretches than a single worker at $100,000 PPP in Portugal, the largest gap in this extract. 2 of 38 countries show $0. The household models are OECD Taxing Wages templates, not a filing-status calculator.
- 27% standard VAT in Hungary, the ceiling in this extract. United States is listed at 0.0 because this column is a national VAT/GST rate, not state sales tax. Among the 37 countries with VAT > 0, Canada is the floor at 5%.
- $100,605 is Iceland's OECD average annual wage in PPP dollars (#1 of 38) versus $24,463 in Mexico (4.11×). Luxembourg is #2 at $98,530. These are national average-wage benchmarks, not the $100,000 model used above.
- $143,406 is how far Colombia's PPP take-home sits above its nominal USD net at $100,000 single (price-level index 36.9). Switzerland is the other end: PPP take-home $16,899 below nominal (price-level 126.2). The complete PPP year in this extract is 2023 (38 of 38); 2024 exists only for one country.
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The bar is the eight lightest employee deduction rates at $100,000 single. The gauge is the share of official 2025 Taxing Wages rows that are populated (not zero-filled).
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Source: OECD Centre for Tax Policy and Administration, OECD Statistics and Data Directorate Taxing Wages employee deductions, official tax wedge, PPP-adjusted take-home, average annual wages · 2023–2025 Figures are PlainGlobalPay's presentation of the published OECD series, not official releases. Employee deductions and the official tax wedge use different denominators. The $100,000 single model is a fixed-gross comparison, not a country's typical wage.