No, you don’t. The withholding is higher. That’s it. At the end of the year your gross income is what determines the tax rate. If the bonus put you in a different tax bracket then yeah, it’s taxed slightly higher. However, if you are sitting below 80k gross your effective tax rate will be around 18%ish. So, that’s what you’re taxed at. None of us in the regionals with the single regional income will be in high tax brackets where you wouldn’t get some of that withholding back.