Colorado Paycheck Calculator

This is the CalcPaid paycheck calculator with Colorado already selected. Enter your pay and how often you are paid, and it estimates your 2026 take-home pay after federal income tax, Social Security, Medicare, Colorado income tax and CO Paid Family & Medical Leave, with local income tax only if you enter a rate.

It runs the same calculation as the US Paycheck Calculator. If you work in a different state, choose it in the calculator above.

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• Colorado income tax is a flat 4.4%. The same rate applies to all of your Colorado taxable income, whatever your filing status.
• Pre-tax deductions lower your Colorado wages. Health, dental and vision premiums, FSA and HSA contributions, traditional 401(k) contributions and any other pre-tax deduction you enter all come off your pay before Colorado tax is worked out.
• A standard deduction comes off next. The calculator subtracts a standard deduction of $16,100 if you are single or married filing separately, $32,200 if you are married filing jointly and $24,150 if you are head of household. These are the federal standard deduction amounts: Colorado income tax starts from your federal taxable income, so the federal standard deduction already applies.
• CO Paid Family & Medical Leave is taken out as well. The calculator takes out the employee half of the 0.88% FAMLI premium: 0.44% of your wages, charged on the first $184,500 you earn in 2026, so it comes to no more than $811.80 for the year.
• It is charged on your gross wages. Gross means gross: health, dental and vision premiums, FSA and HSA contributions, 401(k) contributions and any other pre-tax deduction you enter do not reduce the wages it is charged on, even though they all lower your Colorado income tax. The Colorado Department of Labor and Employment’s FAMLI wages update says FAMLI wages include amounts deferred under a section 125 (cafeteria) plan, an HSA and a retirement plan.
• Local income tax is added only if you enter a rate. The calculator’s “City or county” field starts on “No local income tax” and lists no Colorado city. If you choose “Somewhere else — enter the rate” and type a rate, the calculator charges it on your Colorado wages after pre-tax deductions and shows it as local income tax. Otherwise it applies none.
• Occupational privilege taxes are not included. A few Colorado cities charge a small flat monthly occupational privilege tax. The calculator does not include it: the rate field takes a percentage of your wages, not a monthly amount.
• Nothing else is added for Colorado. The calculator takes out no other Colorado payroll contribution and no local income tax other than a rate you enter.
• Not every figure has been confirmed against a 2026 agency document. The wages CO Paid Family & Medical Leave is charged on were checked directly against the Colorado Department of Labor and Employment’s FAMLI wages update and Colorado’s FAMLI rules. The 0.88% premium rate and the $184,500 wage limit come from the department’s summaries rather than a rate order, and CalcPaid’s data records them as not yet confirmed. The data names the Colorado Department of Revenue as its source for the income tax figures, and records them as not yet confirmed too.

The result is an annualized estimate rather than an exact payroll withholding calculation. Your employer’s payroll system works pay period by pay period, using the withholding forms you filed and your year-to-date pay — information this calculator does not have — so the figure on a given paycheck can fall either side of the one shown here.

Your pay stub is the authority on what was actually withheld, and your tax return is the authority on what you finally owe for the year.

A single filer earning $75,000 in Colorado and paid every two weeks takes home about $58,671 a year in 2026: $4,889 a month, or $2,257 a paycheck.

Filing status changes the figure: married filing jointly on the same salary takes home about $62,409, and a head of household about $60,947.

Colorado taxes wages at one rate on taxable income, the pay left after the deductions Colorado allows.

On top of income tax, state payroll contributions take about $330 a year from a $75,000 salary.

What a single filer paid every two weeks takes home in Colorado in 2026 at six salaries, and what a married couple filing jointly takes home on the same pay.

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