Paycheck and Salary Calculators for 2026
Convert hourly wages to annual salary, estimate take-home pay or work backward from a monthly net-pay target. Check the state and tax assumptions on the result before comparing scenarios.
- Paycheck CalculatorTake-home pay after federal, state, Social Security, and Medicare taxes, for every state.
- Hourly to Salary CalculatorConvert an hourly wage to annual, monthly, biweekly, and weekly pay, or a salary back to hourly.
Start with the pay figure you know
- Estimate net pay from gross earnings
- Paycheck Calculator. Enter salary or hourly pay, filing status, deductions and state to see an estimated tax breakdown and take-home pay. State pages explain where a table is estimated and what is excluded.
- Convert an hourly rate to salary
- Hourly to Salary Calculator. Use your hours per week and weeks per year to compare gross weekly, monthly and annual earnings. This conversion comes before taxes; it does not estimate a deposit into your bank account.
Common questions
Can I find the salary needed for a monthly take-home target?
Yes. Choose a state in the salary-needed list below for preset monthly targets, or follow the custom-target link to solve for gross salary from a net-pay amount.
Why might an estimate differ from my payslip?
The result depends on the filing status, deductions, pay frequency and tax tables used. Local taxes and other payroll details may not be modeled, and some state tables are marked as estimates.
Salary needed by state
Choose your state to find the annual salary needed for a target monthly take-home pay. For a custom target, solve for salary from take-home pay.
- Alabama
- Alaska
- Arizona
- Arkansas
- California
- Colorado
- Connecticut
- Delaware
- District of Columbia
- Florida
- Georgia
- Hawaii
- Idaho
- Illinois
- Indiana
- Iowa
- Kansas
- Kentucky
- Louisiana
- Maine
- Maryland
- Massachusetts
- Michigan
- Minnesota
- Mississippi
- Missouri
- Montana
- Nebraska
- Nevada
- New Hampshire
- New Jersey
- New Mexico
- New York
- North Carolina
- North Dakota
- Ohio
- Oklahoma
- Oregon
- Pennsylvania
- Rhode Island
- South Carolina
- South Dakota
- Tennessee
- Texas
- Utah
- Vermont
- Virginia
- Washington
- West Virginia
- Wisconsin
- Wyoming
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