Maryland Paycheck Calculator

This is the CalcPaid paycheck calculator with Maryland 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 and Maryland income tax, with a county income tax if you choose a county or 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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• Maryland income tax rises in nine steps. If you are single or married filing separately, the calculator charges 2% on the first $1,000 of Maryland taxable income, 3% from $1,000 to $2,000, 4% from $2,000 to $3,000, 4.75% from $3,000 to $100,000, 5% from $100,000 to $125,000, 5.25% from $125,000 to $150,000, 5.5% from $150,000 to $250,000, 5.75% from $250,000 to $500,000, 6.25% from $500,000 to $1,000,000 and 6.5% on everything above $1,000,000. If you are married filing jointly or head of household, the same rates apply, stepping up at $1,000, $2,000, $3,000, $150,000, $175,000, $225,000, $300,000, $600,000 and $1,200,000.
• Pre-tax deductions lower your Maryland 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 Maryland tax is worked out.
• A standard deduction and an exemption come off next. The calculator subtracts the standard deduction of the Maryland tax return: $3,350 if you are single or married filing separately, and $6,700 if you are married filing jointly or head of household. Your employer’s withholding formula takes off a different amount, the same for every employee, which the calculator does not use. It then subtracts an exemption and applies the rates to what is left.
• The exemption shrinks at higher incomes. Each Maryland exemption falls as your federal adjusted gross income rises, and the calculator takes that income to be your wages after pre-tax deductions. If you are single or married filing separately, each exemption is $3,200 if that income is $100,000 or less, $1,600 if it is $125,000 or less, $800 if it is $150,000 or less and $0 if it is more than $150,000. If you are married filing jointly or head of household, it is $3,200 if that income is $150,000 or less, $1,600 if it is $175,000 or less, $800 if it is $200,000 or less and $0 if it is more than $200,000. The calculator counts one exemption, or two if you are married filing jointly, so it subtracts at most $3,200, or $6,400 if you are married filing jointly. It has no field for dependents, so the exemptions they would add are not included.
• County income tax is added once you choose your county. Every Maryland county and Baltimore City charges its own income tax on top of the state rate. The calculator’s “City or county” field starts on “No local income tax”, which adds none, and lists all 24. If you choose one, the calculator charges its rate on your Maryland taxable income, after the standard deduction and the exemption — the same amount the state rates are charged on — and shows it under its name.
• Twenty-two of them charge one fixed rate. The calculator charges 3.3% for Dorchester County and Kent County; 3.2% for Allegany County, Baltimore City, Baltimore County, Calvert County, Caroline County, Howard County, Montgomery County, Prince George's County, Queen Anne's County, St. Mary's County, Somerset County and Wicomico County; 3.06% for Harford County; 3.03% for Carroll County and Charles County; 2.95% for Washington County; 2.74% for Cecil County; 2.65% for Garrett County; 2.4% for Talbot County; and 2.25% for Worcester County.
• Anne Arundel County’s rate rises with income. If you choose Anne Arundel County and are single or married filing separately, the calculator charges 2.7% on the first $50,000 of Maryland taxable income, 2.94% from $50,000 to $400,000 and 3.2% on everything above $400,000. If you are married filing jointly or head of household, the same rates apply, stepping up at $75,000 and $480,000.
• Frederick County charges one rate, set by your income. If you choose Frederick County, the calculator charges one rate on all of your Maryland taxable income, and which rate depends on how much that income is. If you are single or married filing separately, it is 2.25% if that income is $25,000 or less, 2.75% if it is $50,000 or less, 2.96% if it is $150,000 or less and 3.2% if it is more than $150,000. If you are married filing jointly or head of household, it is 2.25% if that income is $25,000 or less, 2.75% if it is $100,000 or less, 2.96% if it is $250,000 or less and 3.2% if it is more than $250,000. It is not charged in steps: an income just over a limit pays the higher rate on all of it.
• A rate you type is charged on your wages, not your taxable income. The field also offers “Somewhere else — enter the rate”. If you choose it and type a rate, the calculator charges it on your Maryland wages after pre-tax deductions, before the standard deduction and the exemption come off, and shows it as local income tax — unlike the listed counties, whose rates are charged on Maryland taxable income.
• Nothing else is added for Maryland. The calculator takes out no Maryland payroll contribution and no local income tax other than the county tax you choose or the rate you enter.
• These figures are carried forward, not confirmed for 2026. The standard deduction amounts above are the ones Maryland law sets for the 2025 return, and the Comptroller of Maryland’s 2026 estimated-tax worksheet prints the same amounts. The law raises them for the cost of living each year after 2025, and until the 2026 amounts are confirmed, CalcPaid’s data keeps these. The data records the Maryland figures as a whole as carried forward rather than confirmed for 2026. It names the Comptroller’s 2026 rate schedules as its source for the rates and the Comptroller’s 2026 State and Local Withholding Information for all 24 county rates, including the Anne Arundel County and Frederick County schedules, and also names Maryland’s tax law and the Comptroller’s 2026 estimated-tax worksheet.

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 Maryland and paid every two weeks takes home about $58,394 a year in 2026: $4,866 a month, or $2,246 a paycheck.

Filing status changes the figure: married filing jointly on the same salary takes home about $61,735, and a head of household about $60,475.

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

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

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