There is indeed a widespread misconception that if more income pushes you into a higher bracket it might make you total after tax income go down. Many people think if you are in the N% bracket it means you tax is N% of your taxable income.
The first shows what tax would be on a single person in 2023 whose income is entirely salary and whose only deduction is the standard deduction, for income up to $1 million.
The second shows what the tax would be as a fraction of your total income.
Here are a couple of graphs that show how it actually works: https://imgur.com/gallery/aS1zJg7
The first shows what tax would be on a single person in 2023 whose income is entirely salary and whose only deduction is the standard deduction, for income up to $1 million.
The second shows what the tax would be as a fraction of your total income.