AfterTaxLab started with a simple frustration: gross salaries lie. A $100,000 offer in San Francisco and a $75,000 offer in Austin can leave nearly the same money in your pocket — but nobody shows you that math before you sign. So we built the calculator we wanted: type a salary, pick a state, see federal tax, state tax and FICA split dollar by dollar.
Free take-home pay calculators for the US (all 50 states plus DC), the UK, Canada, Australia and Germany — 2026 figures, private by design, no signup. Every result shows its method: which brackets, which caps, which estimates. Twenty plain-English guides explain the same numbers without jargon.
All math runs client-side in auditable JavaScript; nothing you type is uploaded. Where official tables end, we label the model: exact-zero, published flat rate, simplified progressive, or planning estimate. Our methodology page lists every bracket, cap and source. When we are unsure, we say so — see the estimate labels across the site.
AfterTaxLab is an independent project published and maintained by Nuh Taşpınar, working from Türkiye (GMT+3) — the subject matter is US tax and pay data, so the site is written and served in English for a US readership. There is no newsroom and no sales team behind it. No investors, no advertisers dictating content, no data brokers. Every figure on the site is computed by the tax engine rather than typed in; the explanatory text is drafted with AI assistance and checked line by line against the published rules cited on the methodology page, which also lists what the model knowingly leaves out. If a number is wrong, the correction goes on the page — not in a footnote. Revenue, once approved, comes only from standard display ads. Corrections and city requests are welcome at [email protected] — every table on this site has been fixed at least once thanks to reader mail.
AfterTaxLab answers one question well: what actually lands in your account after federal tax, FICA and state income tax — and what it looks like per month, per paycheck, and as an effective rate.
Every calculator on the site runs the same client-side engine. Nothing you type is sent anywhere: the arithmetic happens in your browser, which is why there is no sign-up, no account and no stored salary history. The federal layer follows the 2026 IRS schedule, FICA uses the current Social Security wage base, and each state is labelled by method — exact for zero-tax and flat-rate states, simplified or estimated where a full model would require details we cannot verify for every filer.
It is not tax advice, an official estimator, or a substitute for a licensed professional. It is a planning tool built to make the tax structure visible: which layer takes how much, where the brackets bite, and how much of a difference a state line actually makes at your salary. If your situation includes equity, self-employment, rental income or credits, treat these figures as a starting point and check with a professional.
Bracket changes, statute updates and reader corrections are the main source of edits. If a figure disagrees with your state's official estimator, that is a bug worth reporting — tables get fixed and the fix ships the same week.
AfterTaxLab is a free take-home pay calculator for the United States. Enter a salary, choose a state and a filing status, and the site shows the federal tax, the FICA contribution, any state income tax and the amount left. Nothing is stored: the calculation runs in your browser.
The site exists because the number people are quoted in a job offer is the gross figure, and the number that reaches a bank account is usually several thousand dollars smaller. Most salary sites stop at the gross figure; the point here is the difference and where it goes.
Every figure on this site is derived from a named public source rather than estimated by hand.
A take-home estimate is only as honest as its stated limits, so here they are. The model is designed for a typical single or joint W-2 employee taking the standard deduction. It does not attempt to model itemised deductions, credits and phase-outs, the alternative minimum tax, self-employment tax, local or city wage taxes, state disability insurance, wage garnishment, or pre-tax benefit deductions you have not entered. Actual pay depends on your W-4 elections and employer payroll setup.
If a number here disagrees with your payslip, the payslip wins — then tell us, because a discrepancy usually means a rule has changed or a state model needs updating.
Tax figures are re-verified when the IRS publishes its annual inflation adjustments and whenever a state changes its rates. Data tables show the tax year they apply to, and pages that share a number state where it came from. We do not publish a figure we cannot attribute to a public source.
The site is independent, financed by display advertising, and takes no payment for rankings or mentions. It is not affiliated with the IRS or any state revenue department.
Figures on this page are planning estimates built from published IRS tables and state agency rates; they are not tax advice. How we build and check these estimates · Edited by: Nuh Taspinar · Last updated: 2026-11-09
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