What actually lands in your bank account, state by state: per-paycheck take-home after federal tax, Social Security, Medicare and your state’s own 2026 tax — including state payroll extras like California SDI and Washington’s WA Cares, which most national calculators skip.
Each state page is generated from one canonical 2026 dataset — Tax Foundation’s 2026 state tables as the comparison spine, checked against state departments of revenue and official withholding publications — and every printed figure is computed by the same engine that runs the calculators, so the static page and the live tool can never disagree. Filing statuses a state’s own tables could not verify are not offered, and each page says so.
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Paycheck calculators for all 50 states and DC for 2026: take-home pay per paycheck after federal, state and payroll taxes, including state extras like California SDI.
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Paycheck calculators for all 50 states and DC: take-home pay per paycheck after federal, state and payroll taxes for 2026. Every card and row is computed live from the canonical 2026 dataset — Tax Foundation’s state tables checked against state revenue departments — by the same engine that runs the state calculators. Rates checked 31 October 2026; all figures are for the 2026 tax year.
On the same $75,000 salary (single filer, 2026), a worker keeps $61,593 in Texas and $58,805 in California — the entire $2,788 gap is the state layer, because federal tax and FICA are identical in both states.
Each state’s figure is computed on its own 2026 brackets, standard deduction, credits and payroll extras over the federal layer (IRS Rev. Proc. 2025-32; Social Security to the $184,500 wage base). Hubs sort and rank those engine outputs; nothing is hand-typed.
Every jurisdiction is run through the same engine on the same salary and filing status: federal tax and FICA are identical everywhere, so the order is decided entirely by the state layer — brackets, standard deduction, credits and payroll extras.
Quintiles of the average share of gross pay kept at $50,000, $75,000 and $100,000 (single filer) across all 51 jurisdictions: the top fifth earn 5 stars, the bottom fifth 1.
Because they levy no tax on wages, so on wage income alone their take-home is identical — the ranking measures the tax layer only, not sales tax, property tax or cost of living.
The state schedules come from Tax Foundation’s 2026 tables checked against state departments of revenue and official withholding publications; the federal layer is IRS Rev. Proc. 2025-32. Each state page prints its own sources.
The ranking uses state layers only, so New York is ranked without its city tax. City residents get a dedicated New York City paycheck calculator and brackets page.
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