All calculators
Every calculator here runs on the same engine as the main one, with the same sourced constants, so the figures agree with each other to the cent. Pick the problem, not the tool.
Most questions about a paycheck are one of eight: what does my hourly work pay after tax; what does a bonus, a raise or a severance package leave; what does a deduction cost me and save me; how do I fix my withholding; what does my schedule do to the size of each paycheck; what happens with two incomes, a job change or a contract; and, for employers, what does a hire cost. The groups below follow those questions. Each calculator shows its figures with the documents they came from, offers an AI explanation of the computed result, and links to the guide that covers the rule behind it. The state pages and salary pages are the same engine again, one page per place or amount.
Core
The main calculators and the hubs behind them.
- Paycheck calculator
Salary or hourly, any state, per payday
- Hourly paycheck calculator
Rate × hours, overtime, tips
- Paycheck calculator by state
All 50 states and DC, ranked
- Salary after tax
Any annual salary to net
- Hourly to salary converter
Any rate or salary, both ways
I am paid hourly
Hours, overtime, tips, the minimum wage.
- Overtime calculator
State rules and the 2026 deduction
- Minimum wage by state
All 51 ranked, after tax and after prices
- Work Hours Calculator
In-and-out times for each day, breaks removed, overtime applied by your state’s rule, and the week turned into gross and net pay
- Tip Income Calculator
Tips are wages: taxed like any other pay, with the tax withheld from the cash wages that are often much smaller
I got extra pay
Bonuses, raises, severance, payouts, gross-ups.
- Bonus tax calculator
Flat 22% vs aggregate
- Gross-Up Calculator
You know what should land in the account; the question is what gross produces it
- Pay Raise Calculator
A raise is taxed at the marginal rate, not the average, so what survives depends on where your salary sits
- Severance Pay Calculator
Severance is usually weeks of pay per year of service, paid in a lump and withheld at the flat supplemental rate
- Final Paycheck Calculator
A final paycheck is the wages you earned up to the last day plus, in many states, every hour of vacation you did not take
- PTO Payout Calculator
Unused paid time off is paid out at your rate and withheld as a lump sum
- Back Pay Calculator
Back pay is wages you should have received earlier, paid now in one lump: a retroactive raise, a corrected error, a settlement
My deductions
What comes out before tax and what it saves.
- 401(k) paycheck calculator
What a contribution costs and saves
- FICA Tax Calculator
Social Security and Medicare are the one tax on every paycheck that no form changes: 7.65% from the first dollar, until Social Security stops at the wage base
- Pre-Tax Deductions Calculator
The same dollar deducted from a paycheck costs a different amount of take-home depending on which kind of deduction it is
My withholding
The W-4 and the lines that change it.
- W-4 calculator
The exact lines to change
My pay schedule
Weekly, biweekly, semi-monthly, monthly, with the calendar.
- Biweekly Pay Calculator
Paid every two weeks: 26 paychecks, and two months a year with three of them
- Semi-Monthly Pay Calculator
Paid twice a month: 24 paychecks, the same two every month, about 8% larger than a biweekly one on the same salary
- Weekly Pay Calculator
Paid every week: 52 small paychecks, four months with five of them
- Monthly Pay Calculator
Paid once a month: twelve paychecks, and the gross monthly figure a landlord or lender asks for
Two incomes or a change
Two jobs, two offers, contracting, military pay.
- Self-Employed Paycheck Calculator
A contractor has no paycheck, only the money that is left after the taxes an employer would have withheld and the half of FICA an employer would have paid
- Dual Income Calculator
Two paychecks and one return: each employer withholds as if its paycheck were the household’s only income, and the joint brackets apply to the total
- Compare Two Job Offers
Offers are made in gross salary and lived in monthly net
- Military Pay Calculator
Military pay is three things: base pay, which is taxed like any wage; BAH and BAS, which are not; and allowances and special pays that vary
I am hiring
The employer side of the same paycheck.
- Payroll Calculator
What an employee costs is not what they are paid