Connecticut Paycheck Calculator

This is the CalcPaid paycheck calculator with Connecticut 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, Connecticut income tax and CT Paid Leave.

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

Everything is calculated in your browser. Your figures are never sent to a server, written to the address bar or stored. The site uses Google Analytics to count visits, which sees that this page was opened, not what you typed into it. The privacy page has the detail.

• Connecticut income tax rises in seven steps. If you are single or married filing separately, the calculator charges 2% on the first $10,000 of Connecticut taxable income, 4.5% from $10,000 to $50,000, 5.5% from $50,000 to $100,000, 6% from $100,000 to $200,000, 6.5% from $200,000 to $250,000, 6.9% from $250,000 to $500,000 and 6.99% on everything above $500,000. If you are married filing jointly, the same rates apply, stepping up at $20,000, $100,000, $200,000, $400,000, $500,000 and $1,000,000; if you are head of household, at $16,000, $80,000, $160,000, $320,000, $400,000 and $800,000.
• Pre-tax deductions lower your Connecticut 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 Connecticut tax is worked out.
• A personal exemption comes off next, and shrinks as pay rises. The calculator subtracts no standard deduction for Connecticut. It subtracts a personal exemption of $15,000 if you are single, $24,000 if you are married filing jointly, $12,000 if you are married filing separately and $19,000 if you are head of household. The exemption falls by $1,000 for each $1,000, or part of $1,000, by which your Connecticut wages after pre-tax deductions are above $30,000 if you are single, $48,000 if you are married filing jointly, $24,000 if you are married filing separately or $38,000 if you are head of household, until none is left. The rates apply to what remains.
• Some Connecticut rules for higher incomes are not applied. Connecticut also applies a further phase-out and a benefit recapture at higher incomes. The calculator applies neither, so for higher earners it may show less Connecticut tax than is due. It subtracts no Connecticut tax credit either.
• CT Paid Leave is taken out as well. CT Paid Leave is 0.5% of your wages, charged on the first $184,500 you earn in 2026 — the same limit as Social Security — so it comes to no more than $922.50 for the year. It is charged on the same wages as Social Security and Medicare, which is what the Connecticut Paid Leave Authority tells employers to use: health, dental and vision premiums, FSA and HSA contributions and other pre-tax deductions reduce them, and 401(k) contributions do not.
• Nothing else is added for Connecticut. The calculator takes out no other Connecticut payroll contribution and no city or county income tax.
• Not every figure has been confirmed against a 2026 agency document. The rates and the personal exemption and its phase-out come from reputable secondary sources and have not yet been re-checked against a 2026 agency document. The CT Paid Leave rate, its wage limit and the wages it is charged on were checked directly against the Connecticut Paid Leave Authority’s guidance for employers.

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 Connecticut and paid every two weeks takes home about $57,843 a year in 2026: $4,820 a month, or $2,225 a paycheck.

Filing status changes the figure: married filing jointly on the same salary takes home about $61,373, and a head of household about $60,165.

Connecticut taxes wages in brackets: each rate applies only to the part of taxable income, the pay left after the deductions Connecticut allows, that falls inside its band.

On top of income tax, state payroll contributions take about $375 a year from a $75,000 salary.

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

Moving, or working across a state line? Open the same calculator for a neighboring state:

• Massachusetts
• New York
• Rhode Island
• All 50 states + DC

See every state side by side in the list of all 50 states and DC, or what one salary pays after tax in each of them:

• $45,000 after tax
• $60,000 after tax
• $75,000 after tax
• $90,000 after tax
• $120,000 after tax
• $150,000 after tax
• All salaries