Enter your salary, pick your filing status and state, and see your paycheck after tax. The calculator uses 2026 federal brackets and the standard deduction, then takes off Social Security and Medicare. Add a pre-tax 401(k) contribution to see how it changes your pay. Nothing you type leaves this device.
Change it to your own salary.
Your gross pay, before taxes and deductions.
The ten largest states are first. City taxes are not counted.
The status you use on your federal return.
A percentage of your salary. Leave blank for none.
How often your paycheck arrives.
A yearly total, taken off after tax.
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It starts with your salary and takes off any pre-tax 401(k) contribution. It then applies the standard deduction for your filing status and the federal brackets for 2026. Social Security and Medicare come off your pay, along with Additional Medicare tax for higher earners, and then state tax where we have confirmed figures.
Federal figures come from the IRS: Revenue Procedure 2025-32, the IRS tax topics on Social Security and Medicare, and the IRS announcement of the 2026 401(k) limit. State figures come from each state's own revenue department. Your result shows the tax year and the date we last checked the figures.
State tax is worked out for Texas, Florida, Pennsylvania, Illinois, Georgia, North Carolina and Michigan. Texas and Florida have no state tax on wages. Where a state's tax is left out, the calculator says so next to your result.
For now the calculator counts federal tax and FICA only for these three states. We have not yet confirmed their 2026 state figures from an official source, so we do not guess. Your real paycheck will be lower than the result by the amount of your state tax.
No. Local income taxes are not included, so if your city or county charges one, your paycheck will be lower than the result.
A traditional pre-tax 401(k) contribution lowers the pay your federal income tax is based on, but not the pay Social Security and Medicare are based on. Some states, such as Pennsylvania, still tax that money. The calculator follows these rules for each state it covers.
Your W-4, health insurance, other pre-tax benefits, bonuses, local taxes and your pay frequency can all change the figure. This is an estimate, not tax advice, so your pay stub is the final word.
No. The sum runs in your browser, and your salary never goes to a server.