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Pay raise calculator

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Enter your pay and a raise, in percent or dollars, to see what it adds to each paycheck after taxes.

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Added to each paycheck every two weeks, after taxes

$60.88

A 3% raise on $75,000 is $2,250 a year before tax; $1,583 (70%) reaches your paychecks in Texas.

Raise per year
$2,250
Kept per year
$1,583
Share kept
70%
Marginal rate
29.6%
Take-home every two weeks before$2,368.94
Take-home every two weeks after$2,429.82
Added per paycheck$60.88

How much is a 3% raise?

At the US median wage of $50,980, a 3% raise is $1,529 a year before tax.

How much does a raise add to my paycheck after taxes?

A 3% raise on $50,980 adds $1,154 a year after taxes in the median state, so you keep 75.4% of it. Each paycheck every two weeks grows by $44.37.

How this is calculated
  1. Take-home pay after the raise minus take-home pay before it, for the reference worker.
  2. The reference worker is a single filer with one job, paid every two weeks, with a standard Form W-4 and no pre-tax deductions, under 65.

Does my raise beat inflation?

No. A 3% raise falls short of the 3.7% rise in consumer prices over the year to September 2026, so its buying power shrinks by 0.7%.

How this is calculated
  1. Buying power change = (1 + raise) divided by (1 + the 12-month change in the consumer price index), minus 1.
  2. Prices are the all-items index for urban consumers, not seasonally adjusted.

Raise by percentage or by dollars

A percentage raise grows with pay, while a dollar raise is the same for everyone. On $50,980, 3% is $1,529; enter either one in the calculator.

What is the average raise?

Median weekly earnings of full-time workers grew 1.5% from the third quarter of 2025 to the third quarter of 2026, and the national average wage index rose 4.2% from 2024 to 2025.

These measure pay across all workers, not raises for people who stay in the same job.