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How much is $75,000 a year after taxes in West Virginia in 2026?

A $75,000 salary in West Virginia nets roughly $59,047 a year in 2026, once federal income tax, Social Security and Medicare and West Virginia state tax are withheld.

West Virginia take-home pay calculator

This is the figure before tax, not the amount that lands in your account

Your pay stub calls it gross pay. It is what you are paid before federal and West Virginia income tax, Social Security and Medicare come out of it.

Your usual week, not a busy one

Use the hours you work most weeks. Overtime belongs in the overtime calculator instead.

How often are you paid?

It changes the size of each check, not the tax you owe for the year

It only decides how the year is cut up, so the figure you see is the one you would actually receive.

How do you do your taxes?

It moves the income bands, so it changes the tax on the same pay

Tax forms call this your filing status. This estimate assumes one income; if your husband or wife also earns, the real figure is higher than this.

Do customers tip you?

Cash and card tips together, for the whole year.

An hourly rate times your hours never includes tips

If you worked out your pay as a rate times the hours you work, that figure is your wages and nothing else, so your tips are on top of it. A yearly salary from an employer who reports your tips usually already has them in it, and your last payslip is the place to check: if the gross on it is bigger than your rate times your hours, the difference is your reported tips.

Do you get paid extra for working extra hours?

This starts at one and a half times your normal rate, the usual overtime rate. Change it if yours is different, and it stops following.

Do you get a bonus or commission?

Do you, or your husband or wife, turn 65 at any point this year?

Do you put part of your pay into a retirement plan at work?

Look on your pay stub for a line like 401(k), 403(b), 457, TSP, retirement or pension.

Does money come out of your pay for health insurance or a health account?

Look on your pay stub for lines like medical, dental, vision, HSA or FSA.

Do you claim any children or other dependents?

That is $0 of dependent credit for the year. A W-4 counts $2,000 for each child under 17 and $500 for each other dependent.

Did you ask your employer to take extra tax out of each paycheck?

Look on your pay stub for a line like additional or extra withholding. On the W-4 you handed in, it is the box on line 4(c).

If your W-4 shows a per-paycheck amount, multiply it by the number of paychecks you get in a year.

Is anything else taken out of your pay after tax?

Look near the bottom of your pay stub for lines like union dues, life insurance, a repayment or a garnishment.

Your answer

These are example numbers. Type yours to see your own.

Based on a $75,000 salary in West Virginia, single filer, paid every 2 weeks

$2,271.02

take-home per 2 weeks · $59,047/yr

Gross$2,884.62
Federal income tax−$295.00
Social Security−$178.85
Medicare−$41.83
West Virginia income tax−$97.92
Net pay$2,271.02
Federal marginal rate: 22% Effective tax rate: 21.3% Take-home: 78.7%
Your federal tax on West Virginia pay, worked out one bracket at a time
BracketIncome taxed hereTax
10% ($0 – $12,400)$12,400$1,240
12% ($12,400 – $50,400)$38,000$4,560
22% ($50,400 – $105,700)$8,500$1,870

Taxable income $58,900 after the $16,100 standard deduction. Your federal marginal rate is 22%, the federal tax on your next dollar earned.

Compare your take-home pay with Virginia, Ohio or Pennsylvania

Which 2026 rules apply to your West Virginia paycheck?

Choose anything that matches how you are paid in West Virginia and the list trims itself.

Tick anything that is true for you.

Tips: federally deductible, but West Virginia still taxes tips in full. Work out the tip deduction

Overtime: federally deductible, but West Virginia still taxes overtime premium pay in full. Work out the overtime deduction

Bonuses: West Virginia has no separate supplemental rate, so a bonus is withheld on the ordinary West Virginia tables. Estimate the tax on a bonus in West Virginia

Turning 65: the $6,000 federal senior deduction comes off your federal return; West Virginia's five brackets still apply to the same wages. Check the senior deduction

See every 2026 rule that matches your answers in West Virginia

Take-home now: $2,271.02 per 2 weeks

Use this free West Virginia (WV) paycheck, payroll and income tax calculator to estimate your 2026 take-home pay after federal income tax, Social Security, Medicare, and West Virginia's graduated state income tax (five brackets, 2.11% to 4.58%).

Adjust the calculator inputs to see the breakdown for your own West Virginia paycheck.

West Virginia's five-bracket ladder (2.11%–4.58%): what comes out of each 2026 check

Your West Virginia state income tax for 2026 is figured on a graduated bracket schedule, layered on after the state deduction. This calculator applies that on top of federal withholding and Social Security / Medicare to estimate your West Virginia take-home pay.

West Virginia uses a graduated income tax with 5 brackets for 2026, with marginal rates ranging from 2.11% to a top rate of 4.58% (which applies to single-filer taxable income above $60,000). For 2026, West Virginia's state personal exemption is $2,000 for single filers and $4,000 for married couples filing jointly. As a worked example, a single filer earning $60,000 pays about $1,866 in West Virginia income tax (roughly 3.1% of gross) before federal tax and FICA.

What this estimate doesn't include: West Virginia has no local income tax, but some cities, Charleston among them, take a flat weekly city service fee out of the pay of everyone who works there ($3 a week in Charleston, $5 in Huntington), and this calculator leaves it out. WV has no standard deduction; we model one $2,000 personal exemption ($4,000 MFJ). Each dependent adds another $2,000 not modeled — estimates run slightly high for filers with dependents. City, county or school-district income taxes where they apply, court-ordered deductions, union dues, and anything else your specific employer withholds are not in this figure; your pay stub is the authority on those.

Estimates only, not tax advice. The section "What this estimate doesn't include" above lists what's left out; see also our terms and the corrections log.

West Virginia's five 2026 brackets, from 2.11% to 4.58% (single filers)

West Virginia's graduated single-filer schedule for 2026, applied after the state deduction:

Taxable incomeMarginal rate
$0 – $10,0002.11%
$10,000 – $25,0002.81%
$25,000 – $40,0003.16%
$40,000 – $60,0004.22%
$60,000 and above4.58%

Beyond the paycheck: West Virginia's 6% statewide sales tax

Statewide sales tax6%

Your paycheck vs the $60,798 West Virginia median

Median household income (2024 (ACS 1-year; ranked 50th/lowest of the states))$60,798
Take-home (single filer)≈$49,131

No city or county income tax anywhere in West Virginia

West Virginia has no local income tax. Cities can charge flat fees for services such as police, fire and street upkeep, and some charge one to everyone who works inside city limits, whatever they earn. Charleston's City Service Fee is $3.00 a week, which your employer takes out of your pay.

Is overtime and tips tax-free in West Virginia? Federally yes, but West Virginia still taxes both

Federal law lets you deduct qualified tips and overtime premium pay from 2025 through 2028 (OBBBA caps & rules), though Social Security and Medicare are still withheld.

West Virginia state income tax: West Virginia has not adopted the federal tips/overtime deductions for state income tax as of mid-2026, so they reduce your federal tax only. (source: tax.wv.gov)

  • Overtime: 2025 — not deductible on your West Virginia return (still state-taxed); 2026–2028 — not deductible on your West Virginia return (still state-taxed).
  • Tips: 2025 — not deductible on your West Virginia return (still state-taxed); 2026–2028 — not deductible on your West Virginia return (still state-taxed).

Related: tips by state · overtime calculator · overtime by state · tips calculator.

Two West Virginia payroll quirks worth knowing

  • Several West Virginia cities charge a flat weekly 'City Service Fee' on everyone who works inside city limits — Charleston's is $3.00 per week ($6.00 per bi-weekly paycheck) regardless of how much you earn — a fixed deduction unrelated to income level.
  • West Virginia cut its income tax rates again for 2026. Senate Bill 392 lowered every rate by 5%, so the top rate fell from 4.82% to 4.58% and the bottom rate to 2.11%. Any further cuts after 2026 happen only if state revenue comes in above a set target.

West Virginia's own $8.75 minimum wage — above the federal floor (2026)

$8.75/hour (≈$18,200/year full-time). $8.75/hr for employers with 6+ non-exempt employees at one location (unchanged for 2026; smaller employers and certain workers fall under the federal $7.25 floor).

West Virginia paycheck FAQ

Does West Virginia have a state income tax in 2026?

Yes — five graduated brackets from 2.11% to 4.58% in 2026, on top of federal tax and FICA.

What does a full-time minimum-wage job in West Virginia pay in 2026?

West Virginia's 2026 minimum wage is $8.75/hour — about $18,200 a year at 40 hours a week before taxes. Details and exceptions are in the minimum-wage section above.

Compare a paycheck next door: Virginia, Ohio & Pennsylvania

StateState income tax (2026)Take-home on $75,000 (single)
West Virginiafive brackets, 2.11%–4.58%$59,047
Virginiafour brackets, 2%–5.75%$58,094
Ohiotwo brackets, 0%–2.75%$59,974
Pennsylvaniaflat 3.07%$59,238
Kentuckyflat 3.5%$59,085

Those are the states next door. To see where West Virginia lands against all of them at once, our take-home pay by state study runs an identical salary at two levels, $75,000 and $100,000, through the 2026 rules of every state and DC, except Arizona, Arkansas, Idaho, Maryland, Ohio and Vermont, still on their 2025 tables, ranked from the most take-home pay to the least.

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