Ohio Paycheck Calculator

This is the CalcPaid paycheck calculator with Ohio 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 Ohio income tax, plus a city income tax if you pick a listed city 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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• Ohio income tax is $332 plus 2.75% above $26,050. The calculator charges nothing if your Ohio taxable income is $26,050 or less. Above that it charges a fixed $332 plus 2.75% of everything over $26,050, whatever your filing status.
• Pre-tax deductions lower your Ohio 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 Ohio tax is worked out.
• An exemption comes off next. The calculator subtracts no standard deduction for Ohio. It subtracts one personal exemption, or two if you are married filing jointly, before the $26,050 threshold and the 2.75% apply.
• The exemption is smaller at higher incomes. Each exemption is $2,400 if your income is $40,000 or less, $2,150 if it is more than $40,000 up to $80,000, and $1,900 if it is more than $80,000 — so $4,800, $4,300 or $3,800 on a joint return. Once your income reaches $500,000, no exemption comes off. The income used is your pay after pre-tax deductions, standing in for the modified adjusted gross income Ohio uses.
• Only you, and your spouse on a joint return, are counted. The calculator has no field for dependents. If you claim any, Ohio allows an exemption for each of them too, so the estimate may show a little more Ohio tax than you owe.
• A $20 exemption credit comes off at lower incomes. If your pay after pre-tax deductions, less the exemption, is under $30,000, the calculator takes $20 off your Ohio tax, or $40 if you are married filing jointly. The credit never takes Ohio tax below zero: if there is no Ohio tax, nothing comes off.
• Other Ohio tax credits are not taken off. CalcPaid’s data notes that Ohio’s other tax credits are not applied. If you qualify for one, the estimate may show more Ohio tax than you owe.
• A city income tax is added only if you choose it. CalcPaid’s data notes that hundreds of Ohio municipalities levy their own income tax on wages. The calculator’s “City or county” field starts on “No local income tax” and lists Columbus at 2.5%, Cleveland at 2.5%, Cincinnati at 1.8%, Toledo at 2.5%, Akron at 2.5% and Dayton at 2.5%. If you choose one, the calculator charges its rate on your Ohio wages after pre-tax deductions, before the exemption comes off, and shows it under the city’s name.
• School district income tax is not included. CalcPaid’s data notes that some Ohio school districts levy an income tax too. The calculator does not add it, so if you live in one of those districts, your take-home pay may be lower than shown.
• There is no statewide city rate. The calculator applies no local income tax unless you choose a listed city or enter a rate. For a municipality that is not listed, choose “Somewhere else — enter the rate” and type its rate: the calculator charges it on the same Ohio wages and shows it as local income tax.
• One local rate is charged, in full. The calculator charges a single local rate — the city you choose or the rate you enter — on all of your Ohio wages after pre-tax deductions, with no cap, credit or other local rule. If your city tax is worked out differently, choose “Somewhere else — enter the rate” and type the rate you expect to pay.
• Nothing else is added for Ohio. The calculator takes out no Ohio payroll contribution and no local income tax other than the one you choose or enter.
• Not every figure has been confirmed against a 2026 agency document. CalcPaid’s data takes the $332 plus 2.75% above $26,050 from Ohio law (Ohio Revised Code 5747.02), the $500,000 limit on the exemption from Ohio Revised Code 5747.025, and the $20 credit and its $30,000 limit from Ohio Revised Code 5747.022. The law prints exemption amounts of $2,350, $2,100 and $1,850, to be adjusted each year for inflation. The $2,400, $2,150 and $1,900 the calculator uses are the adjusted amounts in the Ohio Department of Taxation’s instructions for the previous year; CalcPaid’s data carries them into 2026 because Ohio has paused the yearly adjustment. The department’s 2026 estimated-tax worksheet uses $1,900, though it still prints the previous year’s rates rather than the $332 plus 2.75% in the law, and no 2026 Ohio publication listing the $2,400 and $2,150 amounts has been found. The data also names the Tax Foundation among its sources and records the Ohio figures as not yet confirmed. It names no source for the six city rates.

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 Ohio and paid every two weeks takes home about $59,974 a year in 2026: $4,998 a month, or $2,307 a paycheck.

Filing status changes the figure: married filing jointly on the same salary takes home about $63,063, and a head of household about $61,896.

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

What a single filer paid every two weeks takes home in Ohio 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:

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Paid by the hour? The Ohio hourly paycheck calculator works from an hourly wage and overtime, with take-home pay at seven hourly wages.