<prompt> Human: Hello Im Tom Foolery! I work as a paramedic and have for the past 5 years. I currently make 18hr and my monthly income before taxes is; 3,240. I do work a lot of overtime and yearly make roughly around 50k. I have not received a raise in around 3 years. Recently my work has been short staffed and they are offering me a bonus on top of my hourly rate to come in my off days. Typically these bonuses are: 50-75 if I pull a 12 hour shift on my off days, or 100-125 if I pick up an extra 24 hour shift. The thing is; these bonuses are taxed, and are separate from my base rate. I hope Im explaining this well enough, but to put it simply, I make 3,240 a month and can have hundreds of dollars of extra money, but that is taxed just as much as my hourly rate is. The advice Im looking for is if picking up these extra days for an extra 75 is even worth doing since with taxes Im not making an extra 75 Im making an extra X. Have you ever heard of a company that offers bonuses but it is taxed separately, but just as much as your base rate?Thanks to anyone who can understand where Im coming from, and thank you if you can offer advice on if these bonus days are even worth doing, or if Im just wasting my time.  <response>: Progressive income tax system means that unless you are on a welfare cliff, you will always take more money by making more money. A bonus is still ordinary earned income, and is taxed exactly the same. A bonus payment may have a different tax withholding IRS supplemental rate than non-bonus pay. 