Vermont Paycheck Calculator

This is the CalcPaid paycheck calculator with Vermont 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, Vermont income tax and the most an employer may take for Vermont’s Child Care Contribution.

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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• Vermont income tax rises in three steps. If you are single, the calculator charges 3.35% on the first $50,750 of Vermont taxable income, 6.6% from $50,750 to $122,850, 7.6% from $122,850 to $256,300 and 8.75% on everything above $256,300. If you are married filing jointly, the same rates apply, stepping up at $84,700, $204,750 and $312,050; if you are married filing separately, at $42,350, $102,375 and $156,025; and if you are head of household, at $66,200, $171,000 and $276,850.
• Pre-tax deductions lower your Vermont 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 Vermont tax is worked out.
• A standard deduction and an exemption come off next. The calculator subtracts a standard deduction of $7,650 if you are single or married filing separately, $15,300 if you are married filing jointly and $11,450 if you are head of household, and an exemption of $5,400, or $10,800 if you are married filing jointly. It then applies the rates to what is left, and takes no credit off the tax.
• The minimum tax is not included. CalcPaid’s data notes that Vermont charges a minimum tax: once federal adjusted gross income is over $150,000, the Vermont tax is at least 3% of all of that income, not just the part above $150,000. It almost never comes to more than the ordinary tax for someone whose income is wages. The calculator does not work it out.
• The tax is worked out for the year, as on a return. The calculator applies the standard deduction, exemption and rates above to a year’s pay, as a tax return would. Vermont’s withholding tables, which employers use, start from a different amount, so the Vermont tax taken from each paycheck can differ from the share shown here.
• The Child Care Contribution is taken out as well, at the most an employer may take. Vermont employers pay a Child Care Contribution of 0.44% of wages, and may take up to a quarter of it from your pay. The calculator takes out up to 0.11% of your wages for it, on every dollar you earn, with no wage limit. That is the maximum employee share, not a fixed rate: an employer may take less, or nothing, and pay the rest itself, and need not take the same from every employee. If yours takes less, your pay is higher than the calculator shows.
• It is charged on the wages federal income tax is withheld from. The Vermont Department of Taxes charges the Child Care Contribution on the wages subject to federal income tax withholding, so the calculator uses the same wages it uses for federal income tax: health, dental and vision premiums, FSA and HSA contributions, traditional 401(k) contributions and any other pre-tax deduction you enter all come off first. Only wages earned in Vermont count; the calculator treats all of the wages you enter as Vermont wages.
• Nothing else is added for Vermont. The calculator takes out no other Vermont payroll contribution and no city or county income tax.
• These figures are worked out by CalcPaid, not taken from a 2026 Vermont rate schedule. CalcPaid’s data notes that Vermont has not published a 2026 tax rate schedule. The single and joint steps are derived from the 2026 withholding tables the Vermont Department of Taxes did publish, and the married filing separately steps are half the joint ones. The $5,400 exemption is the 2026 withholding allowance. The head of household steps and the standard deduction amounts are Vermont’s 2025 amounts, carried forward. CalcPaid’s data records the Vermont figures as estimates.

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 Vermont and paid every two weeks takes home about $59,071 a year in 2026: $4,923 a month, or $2,272 a paycheck.

Filing status changes the figure: married filing jointly on the same salary takes home about $62,902, and a head of household about $61,484.

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

On top of income tax, state payroll contributions take about $83 a year from a $75,000 salary.

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

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