Take home pay calculator for Virginia 2026

• A full year of wages at one salary, taxed as withholding rather than as a settled return.
• The federal figure applies the standard deduction for the filing status you pick. Itemising, credits and dependants are not modelled.
• Social Security stops at the yearly wage base. Medicare has no cap and includes the additional 0.9 percent above the threshold for your filing status.
• A pretax retirement contribution lowers income tax but not Social Security or Medicare, because those apply to wages.
• City, county and school district income taxes are not included anywhere on this site.
• Virginia tax is applied to income after any pretax contribution, with no state standard deduction, exemption or credit, because the data layer does not carry them. A filed return will usually come in lower.

Virginia's four rates end at 5.75 percent above just $17,000 of taxable income, a threshold untouched since 1990. Every full time salary in the state therefore sits at the top rate.

The lower bands, 2 percent to $3,000 and 3 percent to $5,000, are historical rather than practical. Virginia allows a standard deduction that was raised substantially in recent years and is not subtracted in the table above. Virginia cities and counties do not tax income, though several charge local levies on meals and lodging that show up when you spend rather than when you earn.

Because a full time salary always meets 5.75 percent, the movement in the table comes from the federal side, where wages less $16,100 for a single filer run through the 10, 12, 22 and 24 percent bands. A pretax retirement contribution lowers the Virginia figure and the federal figure together, and lowers neither payroll tax. The per period column is the annual result split across the frequency you pick.