All of the cumulative taxes though are like 60-some percent.
So less than 40% of that 53,000, is less than 21,200 after taxes.
That is an important point, and it plays a role in the minimum wage discussion here in the US; workers don’t file refunds for the Social Security and Medicare withholdings (and only recover some of the income taxes), so this is basically a way to force companies not so much to pay the workers, but to pay THE GOVERNMENT.