TheJobCalc

Pay calculators

Wage and paycheck arithmetic: hourly to salary, overtime, and take-home pay. Same philosophy as the rest of the site — every formula is shown, and anything that varies (your hours, your tax rates) is an input you control, not a number we guess.

These are planning estimates, not tax, legal or financial advice. Actual paychecks are governed by your W-4, payroll rules and local law — for filing decisions, use the IRS withholding estimator or a professional.

Why the tax rates are inputs

Most paycheck calculators bake in the current year’s federal tax tables and go quietly stale every January. This one asks for your effective rates — total tax divided by income from last year’s return — which already average your real brackets, deductions and credits into one honest number that you can verify yourself.