Take-home pay map by state

Type any salary and see what a single filer keeps in every state in 2026. The numbers come from the same engine as the paycheck calculator.

Tax year 2026 Tables verified 2026-10-09 Free, no signup, runs in your browser

Single filer, blank 2020 W-4, no benefits, no city tax. Click a state for its paycheck calculator. Darker green keeps more.

At $75,000, take-home runs from $55,860 in Oregon to $61,593 in 8 states, a gap of $5,733 a year.

Alabama: $58,107 a yearAL$58,107Alaska: $61,593 a yearAK$61,593Arizona: $59,718 a yearAZ$59,718Arkansas: $59,213 a yearAR$59,213California: $57,565 a yearCA$57,565Colorado: $59,001 a yearCO$59,001Connecticut: $57,842 a yearCT$57,842Delaware: $57,983 a yearDE$57,983District of Columbia: $58,164 a yearDC$58,164Florida: $61,593 a yearFL$61,593Georgia: $58,598 a yearGA$58,598Hawaii: $57,423 a yearHI$57,423Idaho: $58,726 a yearID$58,726Illinois: $58,025 a yearIL$58,025Indiana: $59,410 a yearIN$59,410Iowa: $59,394 a yearIA$59,394Kansas: $58,207 a yearKS$58,207Kentucky: $59,085 a yearKY$59,085Louisiana: $59,729 a yearLA$59,729Maine: $57,712 a yearME$57,712Maryland: $58,394 a yearMD$58,394Massachusetts: $57,717 a yearMA$57,717Michigan: $58,656 a yearMI$58,656Minnesota: $57,686 a yearMN$57,686Mississippi: $58,993 a yearMS$58,993Missouri: $59,005 a yearMO$59,005Montana: $58,716 a yearMT$58,716Nebraska: $59,060 a yearNE$59,060Nevada: $61,593 a yearNV$61,593New Hampshire: $61,593 a yearNH$61,593New Jersey: $58,681 a yearNJ$58,681New Mexico: $59,233 a yearNM$59,233New York: $57,815 a yearNY$57,815North Carolina: $59,109 a yearNC$59,109North Dakota: $61,389 a yearND$61,389Ohio: $60,306 a yearOH$60,306Oklahoma: $58,763 a yearOK$58,763Oregon: $55,860 a yearOR$55,860Pennsylvania: $59,238 a yearPA$59,238Rhode Island: $59,397 a yearRI$59,397South Carolina: $59,432 a yearSC$59,432South Dakota: $61,593 a yearSD$61,593Tennessee: $61,593 a yearTN$61,593Texas: $61,593 a yearTX$61,593Utah: $58,483 a yearUT$58,483Vermont: $59,103 a yearVT$59,103Virginia: $58,094 a yearVA$58,094Washington: $60,552 a yearWA$60,552West Virginia: $58,912 a yearWV$58,912Wisconsin: $58,649 a yearWI$58,649Wyoming: $61,593 a yearWY$61,593

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Questions

What do the colors mean?

Darker green means a higher yearly take-home at that salary. The lightest states take home the least.

Why is Washington lighter than other no-tax states?

Washington has no wage income tax, but Paid Family and Medical Leave and WA Cares premiums come out of the paycheck.

What does each tile show?

The state code and yearly take-home for a single filer with a blank 2020 W-4, no benefits and no city tax.

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Published by PaycheckZip.com. A credentialed reviewer has not signed this page. The review seat is open. Figures are estimates from the tables named in the method, checked 2026-10-09. They are not tax advice.

Case amounts on the public list, such as $216.15 of federal income tax on the single biweekly example, come from the same code as this page.