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United States · Tax year 2026 · 48 states

Take-home pay calculator

Type a salary, pick a state, and see what actually reaches your account. Federal income tax, FICA, state income tax — and the state payroll deductions that are easy to miss on a payslip.

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What this includes

  • Federal income tax & FICA
  • California income tax
  • CA payroll: SDI

Assumes wage income with no pre-tax retirement contributions or dependents.

Take-home per paycheck · 2026

$2,224.73

Paid every two weeks · $57,843 a year

You keep 77% of your gross pay. California itself takes 3.7%.

This is your 2026 tax for the whole year, spread evenly across 26 paychecks and rounded to the cent. A real payslip can differ slightly from one paycheck to the next: employers withhold using tables that approximate the year's tax rather than match it, and stop taking a contribution once your wages for the year pass its cap.

Effective rate 22.9% of your gross
Marginal rate 30.0% on your next dollar
Total tax $659.89 a paycheck · $17,157 a year
  • Federal income tax$295.00
  • CA income tax$106.71
  • FICA$220.68
  • CA payroll$37.50
  • Take-home$2,224.73
Itemized deductions from gross pay, per paycheck and per year
DeductionRatePer paycheckPer yearPer year
Gross payAnnual salary ÷ 26 $2,884.62$75,000.00$75,000.00
Federal
Federal income taxAfter the $16,100 standard deduction −$295.00−$7,670.00−$7,670.00
Social SecurityCapped at $184,500 of wages 6.20% −$178.85−$4,650.00−$4,650.00
Medicare 1.45% −$41.83−$1,087.50−$1,087.50
California
CA income taxBefore credits, after the $5,706 standard deduction −$112.60−$2,927.57−$2,927.57
Personal exemption credit +$5.89+$153.00+$153.00
SDI 1.30% −$37.50−$975.00−$975.00
Total tax−$659.89−$17,157.07−$17,157.07
Net pay$2,224.73$57,842.93$57,842.93

Per paycheck, each line is its annual amount ÷ 26, rounded to the nearest cent — except Personal exemption credit, rounded the other way so the column adds up to the total.

What this means

On a salary of $75,000 you keep $57,843 — about 77% of what you earn. The remaining $17,157 is split across five separate deductions.

The largest is federal income tax at $7,670, roughly 45% of your total tax bill. California's own income tax takes $2,775, which is less than the $5,738 taken for Social Security and Medicare. The state payroll contribution adds $975 — small, but taken from every paycheck.

Your next dollar of income would be taxed at 30.0% once federal and state are combined, while the rate you actually pay across the whole salary is 22.9%. That gap is why a raise never feels as large as the headline rate suggests — and why the effective rate, not the bracket you land in, is the number worth comparing between states.

Show the working, band by band

Every figure above is computed from published 2026 rates for the whole year, then divided across 26 paychecks.

Federal — on $58,900 taxable income

BandRateTaxed hereTax
$0 – $12,400 10% $12,400 $1,240.00
$12,400 – $50,400 12% $38,000 $4,560.00
$50,400 – $105,700 22% $8,500 $1,870.00

California — on $69,294 taxable income

BandRateTaxed hereTax
$0 – $11,079 1% $11,079 $110.79
$11,079 – $26,264 2% $15,185 $303.70
$26,264 – $41,452 4% $15,188 $607.52
$41,452 – $57,542 6% $16,090 $965.40
$57,542 – $72,724 8% $11,752 $940.16

Why this number differs from the last one you saw

The deductions that are not income tax

Of the 48 states published here, 15 take something out of your pay that is not income tax, and every one of them is in these figures. Rhode Island's TDI is 1.1% of the first $100,000 you earn, paid entirely by the employee — $825 on a $75,000 salary. Oregon's statewide transit tax is 0.1% of every dollar with no wage cap at all. Washington charges $1,040 on $75,000 through Paid Family & Medical Leave and WA Cares (0.58%, uncapped) — in a state with no income tax whatsoever.

Read from the source, not repeated

Behind these 48 states sit 138 official documents — rate schedules, withholding guides, department bulletins. Every state page lists the ones its figures were read from, says which figure each document establishes, and links straight to it. Nothing here is estimated, and nothing is carried over from another calculator. If a figure looks wrong, the source is one click away, and we would rather you checked.

The working, band by band

Every result opens up into the arithmetic behind it: which bracket taxed which slice of income, what the standard deduction removed first, what each payroll levy was charged on. It is a figure you can check against your payslip line by line, rather than one you have to take on trust.

Every state, with its own calculator

Each state page carries its own rate schedule, its payroll levies, take-home at twenty salary points, and the documents every figure came from. Start with the ones people look up most:

All 48 states, A–Z

New York City has its own calculator, because the city charges an income tax of its own on top of New York's: the New York City paycheck calculator.

Of these, 9 levy no income tax at all. They are here in full rather than as a footnote, because federal tax and FICA still apply — and several of them still withhold a state payroll contribution, which is the part that surprises people.

Not every state is here yet. 2 are missing — Vermont, Arkansas — because their 2026 figures have not been published, or the state's own documents disagree about them. A state appears here only once every number it needs is confirmed against an official source, so those wait rather than being estimated.

Compare two states

The same salary, run through two states' rules side by side, with a calculator for your own figure. All comparisons →

What changed for 2026

Rates move, and they move at different times in different states. The tax changes log is a dated record of every change already reflected in these figures — what changed, when it took effect, and the official notice it came from.

Read the tax changes log →