State income tax on your paycheck
Most US states tax wages, with rates ranging from a flat 2.5% to brackets above 12%. Nine states have no income tax on wages.
No income tax on wages
Flat-rate states
Bracket states
- Alabama (top 5.00%)
- Arkansas (top 3.90%)
- California (top 12.30%)
- Connecticut (top 6.99%)
- Delaware (top 6.60%)
- District of Columbia (top 10.75%)
- Hawaii (top 11.00%)
- Kansas (top 5.70%)
- Maine (top 7.15%)
- Maryland (top 5.75%)
- Minnesota (top 9.85%)
- Missouri (top 4.70%)
- Montana (top 5.90%)
- Nebraska (top 5.20%)
- New Jersey (top 10.75%)
- New Mexico (top 5.90%)
- New York (top 10.90%)
- North Dakota (top 2.50%)
- Ohio (top 3.50%)
- Oklahoma (top 4.75%)
- Oregon (top 9.90%)
- Rhode Island (top 5.99%)
- South Carolina (top 6.20%)
- Vermont (top 8.75%)
- Virginia (top 5.75%)
- West Virginia (top 5.12%)
- Wisconsin (top 7.65%)
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