After contracting for years I'm now an employee. I haven't paid normal people taxes in years, so I'm out of the loop.
When I recieved my offer I used this:
http://www.finance.alberta.ca/calc-script/tax_calc.html
But on my companie's intranet it suggests using this:
http://www.cra-arc.gc.ca/esrvc-srvce.../pdoc-eng.html
These give very different expectations of what tax I'll be paying.
Using $100,000 as an easy example for a single person and zero extra deductions, the Alberta calculator gives:
Federal: $17,704
Provincial: $8,026
Total: $25,730
The CRA PDOC gives:
Federal: $28,488.11
Provincial: $9,916.74
Total: $38,404.85
What gives? I have a feeling I'm going to be super dissapointed when I actually get a pay cheque....