Maryland paycheck calculator

Wages are annualised before the schedule is read, so the figures below are annual.

The first row reads 4.75% less $52.50 from the first dollar. Maryland does not withhold at a rate below 4.75%, so its lower brackets are folded into that row, and the amount taken off is what they would have saved.

Annual standard deduction

Single: $3,400.00

Married filing jointly: $6,850.00

Head of household: $6,850.00

Exemption per allowance

$3,200.00

Taken off the income before the schedule.

Withholds nothing on pay below

Weekly: $96.00

Biweekly: $192.00

Semi-monthly: $208.00

Monthly: $417.00

Annually: $5,000.00

The pay of the period, before anything is taken off it.

County Income Tax

2.25% to 3.3%, by county

Charged on the same income as the state's tax, at the rate of the county named on the form, and added into the state line on the stub. Until a county is named, 3.3% is withheld.

Withholding Tax Facts for 2026 (COM RAD 098, revised 12/25) for both rate schedules, the county rates and the $3,200 exemption. Maryland publishes two ways to withhold and they do not agree. The percentage tables in the 2026 employer guide are the manual one: Tax Facts offers them to employers who withhold without a computer and groups the county rates into nine brackets, each to be rounded up to, so Cecil, Washington, Carroll, Charles and Harford have no table of their own. Those tables charge 4.75% from the first dollar and give every filing status one $3,400 standard deduction, where the 2025 Act sets two, $3,350 and $6,700 for 2025 and indexed after. This entry follows the schedules Tax Facts prints, whose cumulative amounts it reproduces to the cent and which reach only $90 by $3,000, with the $3,400 and $6,850 deductions the comptroller's own calculator applies for 2026; the two readings differ by $52.50 a year at every income. Tax Facts also says that "Maryland law does not permit the use of a rate of less than 4.75% to be used for withholding tax purposes", so its 2, 3 and 4 percent rows are not read on their own: the 4.75% row runs from the first dollar less $52.50, which is where it meets the schedule's own $90 at $3,000. The gross pay below which nothing is withheld is the employer guide's, which heads every one of its tables with "DO NOT WITHHOLD ON GROSS WAGES LESS THAN" a figure for each pay period. An employee who has named no county is withheld at the highest county rate, 3.30%, which is what the comptroller's Central Payroll Bureau does for state employees who file no Form MW507. State and county come to one line here because that is how the same office's payroll memo says a Maryland stub prints them. The 2.25% nonresident rate is the rule for an employee who claims no line of Form MW507: a resident of the District of Columbia, Virginia or West Virginia who keeps no place of abode in Maryland for 183 days or more claims exemption from all withholding on line 4, and a resident of Pennsylvania on line 5 from the state portion alone, "still liable for withholding tax at the rate in effect for the Maryland county in which they are employed" unless line 6 or 7 lifts that too. Line 5 alone is withheld as the county rate of the county where employed, charged on the same base a resident's county tax is, with the state schedule and its 2.25% left out: that is our reading of the sentence, not a calculation the comptroller prints, and no figure of the comptroller's checks it. Two more readings of ours ride on it: the per-period floor below which the employer guide withholds nothing applies on line 5 as it does to a resident, and a county already in the draft is read as the county of work once line 5 is claimed, though a resident would have named the county of home there. While no county is named the line is withheld at the 3.30% the state's payroll office uses for an employee with no certificate on file.