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a year, the gap between Alaska and Oregon
On the same $75,000 salary, filing single. Where you live changes what lands in your account. Pick your state to work out yours.
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- Alaska, keeps 82.1%
- Maine, keeps 77.6%
- Vermont, keeps 78.8%
- New Hampshire, keeps 82.1%
- Washington, keeps 82.1%
- Idaho, keeps 78.3%
- Montana, keeps 78.3%
- North Dakota, keeps 81.9%
- Minnesota, keeps 77.4%
- Illinois, keeps 77.4%
- Wisconsin, keeps 78.2%
- Michigan, keeps 78.2%
- New York, keeps 77.0%
- Rhode Island, keeps 78.1%
- Massachusetts, keeps 77.5%
- Oregon, keeps 75.4%
- Nevada, keeps 82.1%
- Wyoming, keeps 82.1%
- South Dakota, keeps 82.1%
- Iowa, keeps 79.2%
- Indiana, keeps 79.2%
- Ohio, keeps 80.0%
- Pennsylvania, keeps 79.1%
- New Jersey, keeps 78.2%
- Connecticut, keeps 77.0%
- California, keeps 77.3%
- Utah, keeps 77.9%
- Colorado, keeps 78.7%
- Nebraska, keeps 78.7%
- Missouri, keeps 78.7%
- Kentucky, keeps 78.8%
- West Virginia, keeps 78.7%
- Virginia, keeps 77.5%
- Maryland, keeps 77.9%
- District of Columbia, keeps 77.6%
- Arizona, keeps 80.2%
- New Mexico, keeps 79.0%
- Kansas, keeps 77.6%
- Arkansas, keeps 79.1%
- Tennessee, keeps 82.1%
- North Carolina, keeps 78.8%
- South Carolina, keeps 79.2%
- Delaware, keeps 77.3%
- Oklahoma, keeps 78.4%
- Louisiana, keeps 79.6%
- Mississippi, keeps 79.1%
- Alabama, keeps 78.2%
- Georgia, keeps 78.1%
- Hawaii, keeps 76.4%
- Texas, keeps 82.1%
- Florida, keeps 82.1%
Keeps less Keeps more
Shaded by the share of a $75,000 salary you keep after federal tax, state tax, Social Security and Medicare, filing single. 75.4% to 82.1%.
Take home on $75,000, filing single
| Alaska | $61,593 | $2,368.94 | 82.1% |
|---|---|---|---|
| Florida | $61,593 | $2,368.94 | 82.1% |
| Nevada | $61,593 | $2,368.94 | 82.1% |
| New Hampshire | $61,593 | $2,368.94 | 82.1% |
| South Dakota | $61,593 | $2,368.94 | 82.1% |
| Tennessee | $61,593 | $2,368.94 | 82.1% |
| Texas | $61,593 | $2,368.94 | 82.1% |
| Washington | $61,593 | $2,368.94 | 82.1% |
| Wyoming | $61,593 | $2,368.94 | 82.1% |
| North Dakota | $61,411 | $2,361.95 | 81.9% |
| Arizona | $60,120 | $2,312.31 | 80.2% |
| Ohio | $59,974 | $2,306.67 | 80.0% |
| Louisiana | $59,729 | $2,297.26 | 79.6% |
| South Carolina | $59,433 | $2,285.87 | 79.2% |
| Indiana | $59,410 | $2,284.98 | 79.2% |
| Iowa | $59,394 | $2,284.40 | 79.2% |
| Mississippi | $59,325 | $2,281.71 | 79.1% |
| Arkansas | $59,305 | $2,280.96 | 79.1% |
| Pennsylvania | $59,290 | $2,280.38 | 79.1% |
| New Mexico | $59,233 | $2,278.20 | 79.0% |
| North Carolina | $59,109 | $2,273.41 | 78.8% |
| Vermont | $59,103 | $2,273.18 | 78.8% |
| Kentucky | $59,085 | $2,272.50 | 78.8% |
| Nebraska | $59,060 | $2,271.52 | 78.7% |
| Missouri | $59,059 | $2,271.50 | 78.7% |
| West Virginia | $59,047 | $2,271.02 | 78.7% |
| Colorado | $59,001 | $2,269.27 | 78.7% |
| Oklahoma | $58,763 | $2,260.12 | 78.4% |
| Idaho | $58,726 | $2,258.68 | 78.3% |
| Montana | $58,716 | $2,258.30 | 78.3% |
| New Jersey | $58,682 | $2,256.98 | 78.2% |
| Michigan | $58,656 | $2,255.99 | 78.2% |
| Wisconsin | $58,643 | $2,255.52 | 78.2% |
| Alabama | $58,628 | $2,254.92 | 78.2% |
| Georgia | $58,599 | $2,253.79 | 78.1% |
| Rhode Island | $58,572 | $2,252.76 | 78.1% |
| Utah | $58,454 | $2,248.23 | 77.9% |
| Maryland | $58,394 | $2,245.91 | 77.9% |
| Maine | $58,208 | $2,238.76 | 77.6% |
| Kansas | $58,207 | $2,238.74 | 77.6% |
| District of Columbia | $58,164 | $2,237.08 | 77.6% |
| Massachusetts | $58,163 | $2,237.02 | 77.5% |
| Virginia | $58,094 | $2,234.39 | 77.5% |
| Illinois | $58,025 | $2,231.72 | 77.4% |
| Minnesota | $58,016 | $2,231.38 | 77.4% |
| Delaware | $57,984 | $2,230.13 | 77.3% |
| California | $57,952 | $2,228.94 | 77.3% |
| New York | $57,784 | $2,222.47 | 77.0% |
| Connecticut | $57,743 | $2,220.87 | 77.0% |
| Hawaii | $57,321 | $2,204.66 | 76.4% |
| Oregon | $56,535 | $2,174.41 | 75.4% |
What comes out of a paycheck
Four things everywhere, and a fifth in six states. Federal income tax, worked out after the standard deduction and applied in brackets, so only the income inside each bracket pays that bracket's rate. State income tax, which in nine states is nothing at all. Social Security, 6.2% of wages, which stops once you pass the annual wage base. And Medicare, 1.45% of everything with no cap, plus another 0.9% above the surcharge threshold.
The fifth is disability or paid family leave insurance, deducted straight from pay in California, Connecticut, Hawaii, New Jersey, New York and Rhode Island. It is neither income tax nor Social Security, most calculators leave it out, and it is not small: $975 a year in California on this salary. The figures in the table above include it, which is why those six states look worse here than a calculator that ignores it would show them.
One thing is left out on purpose. In fifteen states, counties or cities levy their own income tax on top, and that is excluded here and flagged on each of those states' pages, because it depends on an address rather than a state. In some counties it is worth more than the difference between two states.
The figure that matters is the share you keep, not the top bracket. A single filer on $75,000 sits in the 22% federal bracket and pays nothing like 22% overall, because most of the income is taxed in the brackets underneath it.