💰 Always Take the Raise

🏠 Higher tax brackets only apply to income above each threshold, not your entire paycheck. So making more money never means you take home less. You pay 10% on your first $11,925, then 12% on income from $11,926 to $48,475, then 22% on the next bracket, and so on. Each bracket only taxes the money in that specific range. 📊 This means if you get a $10,000 raise that pushes you into a higher bracket, only the extra income gets taxed at the higher rate. Your existing income stays taxed at the lower rates. Stop turning down money because you're scared of taxes. 💭 Have you ever rejected a raise because of tax fears?