Hawaii paycheck calculator
Hawaii withholds from Form HW-4, its own certificate, and an employer may not use the federal W-4 in its place. Two amounts come off the wage before the rates: the value of each allowance claimed on the HW-4, and a further allowance of a fixed size that the booklet gives every employee. Hawaii prints a single and a married rate schedule, and a head of household is withheld as single.
Take-home pay
$1,594.17
per bi-weekly (26 per year) period
- Gross pay
- $2,000.00
- Federal Income Tax
- −$156.15
- Social Security
- −$124.00
- Medicare
- −$29.00
- HI State Income Tax
- −$96.68
- Net pay
- $1,594.17
Carries these figures into a full Hawaii pay stub you can preview and download.
How Hawaii withholding is worked out
Among the HW-4 allowances are ones for the employee, for a spouse who claims none of their own, for dependents, for age and for expected itemized deductions, and one more for being single with a single job or married to a spouse who does not work. Filing as head of household earns an extra allowance rather than a schedule of its own. Without an HW-4 on file the employer withholds as if the employee were single with no allowance, and the first figure on this page is that case. Hawaii leaves cafeteria plan premiums and retirement deferrals out of the wages it taxes, because its wages exclude what its income tax chapter excludes from gross income. Temporary disability insurance is another matter: an employer may pay it in full or deduct part of it from pay, and whether yours does is not something these answers capture.
These are withholding figures: what an employer takes out of one paycheck, which is not the same calculation as the one on an annual return.
Wages are annualised before the schedule is read, so the figures below are annual.
| Annual wages | Tax on the lower figure | Rate on the rest |
|---|---|---|
| $0.00 to $9,600.00 | $0.00 | 1.4% |
| $9,600.00 to $14,400.00 | $134.00 | 3.2% |
| $14,400.00 to $19,200.00 | $288.00 | 5.5% |
| $19,200.00 to $24,000.00 | $552.00 | 6.4% |
| $24,000.00 to $36,000.00 | $859.00 | 6.8% |
| $36,000.00 to $48,000.00 | $1,675.00 | 7.2% |
| $48,000.00 to $125,000.00 | $2,539.00 | 7.6% |
| $125,000.00 and up | $8,391.00 | 7.9% |
| Annual wages | Tax on the lower figure | Rate on the rest |
|---|---|---|
| $0.00 to $19,200.00 | $0.00 | 1.4% |
| $19,200.00 to $28,800.00 | $269.00 | 3.2% |
| $28,800.00 to $38,400.00 | $576.00 | 5.5% |
| $38,400.00 to $48,000.00 | $1,104.00 | 6.4% |
| $48,000.00 to $72,000.00 | $1,718.00 | 6.8% |
| $72,000.00 to $96,000.00 | $3,350.00 | 7.2% |
| $96,000.00 to $250,000.00 | $5,078.00 | 7.6% |
| $250,000.00 and up | $16,782.00 | 7.9% |
| Annual wages | Tax on the lower figure | Rate on the rest |
|---|---|---|
| $0.00 to $9,600.00 | $0.00 | 1.4% |
| $9,600.00 to $14,400.00 | $134.00 | 3.2% |
| $14,400.00 to $19,200.00 | $288.00 | 5.5% |
| $19,200.00 to $24,000.00 | $552.00 | 6.4% |
| $24,000.00 to $36,000.00 | $859.00 | 6.8% |
| $36,000.00 to $48,000.00 | $1,675.00 | 7.2% |
| $48,000.00 to $125,000.00 | $2,539.00 | 7.6% |
| $125,000.00 and up | $8,391.00 | 7.9% |
- Annual extra lump sum withholding allowance
Single: $4,350.00
Married filing jointly: $4,350.00
Head of household: $4,350.00
- Exemption per allowance
- $1,144.00
Taken off the income before the schedule.
The $4,350 figure is Hawaii's extra lump sum withholding allowance, as Booklet A names it, deducted for every employee. The base is in the statute, not in Booklet A, and it is written as a subtraction: HRS 235-61(a) defines wages as remuneration "excluding income excluded from gross income by section 235-7 or other provisions of this chapter". The provision that does the excluding is HRS 235-2.3(a), which makes the Internal Revenue Code operative for this chapter "as it applies to the determination of gross income", and its list of provisions that are not operative names neither section 125 nor the subchapter the retirement deferrals live in. So both come out of the federal gross income and out of Hawaii's wage with it. Booklet A says the retirement half on its own, in section 11(d).
Withheld beside the income tax
- HI Temporary Disability Insurance — not calculated here
- Hawaii lets an employer pay the whole cost of temporary disability coverage or share it with the employee, so the deduction is on some stubs and not others. Where it is taken, it is half of the employer's own insurance premium, held down by two ceilings: 0.5 per cent of the employee's weekly wages, and the maximum weekly deduction the Division sets each year. The premium is a matter between an employer and its carrier and is published nowhere, so the line is named here without an amount. If your employer passes part of it on to you, a real stub carries this line and ours does not, so the take-home above is higher than that stub shows. If your employer pays it all, neither stub has the line.
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Frequently asked questions
What Hawaii law asks of a pay stub
Whether a stub is required, how it may be delivered, and the minimum wage and pay frequency rules.