About a £20,000 Salary in the UK
On a £20,000 gross salary, you'll take home £17,920 per year, which works out to £1,493 per month after income tax and National Insurance.
At this salary, all of your taxable income falls within the basic rate tax band (20%).
Your effective tax rate is 10.4%, meaning you keep 89.6p of every pound earned.
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