Arkansas paycheck calculator

Arkansas reads one schedule whatever the filing status. Wages are annualised first, so the figures below are annual.

Annual standard deduction

Single: $2,470.00

Married filing jointly: $2,470.00

Head of household: $2,470.00

Credit per allowance

$29.00

Taken off the tax, not off the income.

The recapture the department prints above $94,700 is carried row for row, thirty rows of it: the adjustment starts at $369.90 over $94,701 to $94,800, falls by $10 for every $100 of income to $89.90 over $97,501 to $97,600, and stays at $79.90 from $97,601 upwards. Every row is one bracket, its base being the row floor at 3.7% less the printed adjustment, because the schedule has no other way to say the same thing. The lookup in step 2 is deliberately not modelled: below $100,001 the department reads the income at the $50 midrange of the surrounding $100 rather than at the figure itself, which is worth up to $50 of income at 3.7%, or $1.85 a year, and step 3 rounds the tax itself to the dollar afterwards. Near a recapture boundary the midrange can move the row instead of the cents, an income of $94,700 being read at $94,750 and so taking the adjustment of the row above, and that is worth the $10 by which two neighbouring rows differ. The document is also of two minds about where the rounding stops, step 2 saying $100,001 and its own worked example $97,701. The department published this formula on 29 May 2026, after HB 1001 cut the rate back to the start of the year; the formula it replaced was marked "Effective 01/01/2026" as well and withheld at 3.9%. This entry follows the law and applies 3.7% from 1 January, so a stub for a period paid before 29 May shows the tax as cut, not the 3.9% an employer withheld at the time. That is the owner's decision of 2026-10-28.