An independent paycheck calculator and statistics source for every US state, built only on official rules and official data.
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Paycheck Stats is a paycheck calculator for all 50 states and DC that works like a research center. It answers how much a paycheck takes home, then shows what that number means.
Per paycheck as withheld, and per year after the tax owed.
Where the pay sits among the state's workers, on official wage percentiles.
What the pay is worth at the state's price level.
The same salary in all 50 states and DC, and what changes next year.
Every number comes from an official source or is calculated from official rules: 433 sources from 192 publishers, each recording the date it was read and the date its numbers take effect.
Where the 433 sources come from
308 of the 433 are state and local tax rules, one set per state. The states are where paychecks differ most.
The methodology explains every step and the sources page lists them all.
Every rule on the site is tested against its official publication, and auditors who did not write the rules recomputed 838 cases from the official texts. 51 of 51 states and DC run on official 2026 rules today, and a page that cannot show a verified number is not published.
Official text
433 sources, each with the date it was read and the date its numbers take effect.
Coded rules
The federal rules, the rules of 51 states and DC, and 15 official statistics, one per publication.
Tests against the publication
2,319 automated tests, including 35,831 Publication 15-T table cells.
Independent audit
838 checks by auditors who did not write the rules, 829 exact within $1.
Most paycheck calculators stop at the result. Every one of the 433 pages here adds original statistics computed with the same engine, the 9 statistics pages go deepest, and every table can be downloaded and cited.
The 433 pages by type
9 statistics pages carry the deepest tables; salary after tax pages are the largest group with 172.
No. Paycheck Stats is independent, not affiliated with the IRS, the Social Security Administration, any state agency or any payroll company, and nobody pays to appear on it or to change a number.
No. The figures are estimates for information only, not tax, legal or financial advice, and your employer's payroll, your benefits and your full tax situation decide your real paycheck. The disclaimer lists the most common reasons a paycheck differs.
Yes. The statistics tables are published under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International license (CC BY 4.0), so reuse them with a link to the page they come from. Each research page has a ready citation and a table to download.
Write to hello@paycheckstats.com with the page and the figure. Corrections are checked against the official source and the page's Updated date changes when a number changes.