South Carolina Paycheck Calculator

This is the CalcPaid paycheck calculator with South Carolina 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 South Carolina income tax.

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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• South Carolina income tax has two rates. The calculator charges 1.99% on the first $30,000 of South Carolina taxable income and 5.21% on everything above $30,000. The same schedule applies whatever your filing status.
• Pre-tax deductions lower your South Carolina 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 South Carolina tax is worked out.
• A deduction comes off next. The calculator subtracts a South Carolina deduction of $15,000 if you are single or married filing separately, $30,000 if you are married filing jointly and $22,500 if you are head of household, then applies the rates to what is left.
• That deduction shrinks as income rises. South Carolina calls it the income adjusted deduction and phases it out by federal income, which the calculator takes as your federal taxable wages: your pay after the pre-tax deductions above. The full amount applies up to $40,000 if you are single or married filing separately, $80,000 if you are married filing jointly and $60,000 if you are head of household. Above that it falls in a straight line, with the reduction rounded down to a whole $10, and none is left once federal taxable wages reach $95,000, $190,000 or $142,500 respectively.
• Nothing else is added for South Carolina. The calculator takes out no South Carolina payroll contribution and no city or county income tax.
• Checked at the source. CalcPaid’s 2026 data records the rates and the deduction as checked directly against the South Carolina Department of Revenue.

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 South Carolina and paid every two weeks takes home about $58,935 a year in 2026: $4,911 a month, or $2,267 a paycheck.

Filing status changes the figure: married filing jointly on the same salary takes home about $63,244, and a head of household about $61,532.

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

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

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