Washington Paycheck Calculator

This is the CalcPaid paycheck calculator with Washington already selected. Enter how much you earn and how often you are paid, and it estimates your 2026 take-home pay after federal income tax, Social Security, Medicare and two Washington payroll premiums: Paid Family & Medical Leave and the WA Cares Fund. Washington has no state income tax, so the estimate has none to take out.

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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• Washington does not tax wages. The Washington Department of Revenue states that Washington does not currently have an individual income tax, so the calculator takes out no Washington income tax.
• Paid Family & Medical Leave is 0.807% of your wages, on wages up to $184,500 for the year — the same limit as Social Security. That rate is the employee share of the 1.13% combined 2026 premium, and the calculator takes out the full employee share.
• WA Cares Fund is 0.58% of all your wages, with no yearly limit. It is a long-term care premium. People who hold an approved exemption do not pay it, but the calculator has no setting for an exemption and always takes it out.
• Which wages they are charged on is an assumption. The calculator charges both premiums on the same wages as Social Security and Medicare: health, dental and vision premiums, FSA and HSA contributions and other pre-tax deductions reduce them, and 401(k) contributions do not. Washington’s law does not say how these deductions are treated, and this has not been confirmed against a 2026 Washington source.
• Nothing else is added for Washington. The calculator takes out no city or county income tax.
• The premium rates have not been confirmed against a 2026 agency document. The Paid Family & Medical Leave rate is worked out from the published combined premium, and the WA Cares rate comes from reputable secondary sources; neither has yet been re-checked against a 2026 Washington government document. That Washington has no income tax on wages was checked directly against the Washington 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 Washington and paid every two weeks takes home about $60,552 a year in 2026: $5,046 a month, or $2,329 a paycheck.

Filing status changes the figure: married filing jointly on the same salary takes home about $63,582, and a head of household about $62,474.

Washington does not tax wages, so no state income tax comes out of a paycheck.

A state payroll contribution still applies: about $1,040 a year on a $75,000 salary, or $40 a paycheck.

What a single filer paid every two weeks takes home in Washington 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 Washington hourly paycheck calculator works from an hourly wage and overtime, with take-home pay at seven hourly wages.