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by dogma1138 1392 days ago
In the UK national insurance is 13.5% from the employee and 15.5% from the employer…

And all you get is £170 a week pension if you are lucky.

So the social security equivalent in the UK comes to about 28% of the salary of most UK workers.

It does only kick in if you are paid more than £240 a week for the employee part and £170 for the employer part, and does taper off for the employee to 3.5% for income above £4300 a month but for all intents and purposes this hold true for most workers.