How much tax is taken out of my paycheck in Michigan?

It turns mostly on how many exemptions you claim, because Michigan's rate is flat and the exemption is the biggest lever on the state line. Federal income tax and the payroll deductions come out of the same check, and a city tax may follow if you work in one of the cities that levy their own. The calculator above covers the federal and state parts.

Does this include Michigan city income tax?

No. A couple of dozen cities in the state charge their own, taken from the same paycheck, and this page works out the state's share alone. Where you work decides whether a city tax reaches you, and in some places living there as well changes the rate.

What is a Michigan exemption worth?

A fixed sum off the income for each one claimed, and it is the largest single lever on the state figure. Since the rate does not climb, an exemption is worth the same number of dollars to a low earner as to a high one.

Does Michigan have tax brackets?

Not for withholding. One rate applies to whatever survives the exemptions, so the pay itself and the number of exemptions claimed are the only two things that move the state line on a stub.

Michigan paycheck calculator

Michigan charges one rate with no standard deduction, leaning instead on a personal exemption claimed for yourself and for each dependant on the state certificate. The exemption is generous enough that it, rather than the rate, is what moves a Michigan paycheck most.

Take-home pay

$1,605.85

per bi-weekly (26 per year) period

Gross pay: $2,000.00
Federal Income Tax: −$156.15
Social Security: −$124.00
Medicare: −$29.00
MI State Income Tax: −$85.00
Net pay: $1,605.85

Carries these figures into a full Michigan pay stub you can preview and download.

How Michigan withholding is worked out

The figure here covers the state and stops there. Around two dozen cities in Michigan levy an income tax of their own, withheld from the same paycheck by the same employer, and none of them is worked out on this page. Whether one reaches you depends on where you work and, in some of those cities, on whether you live there as well, with residents charged at a higher rate than people who commute in. If you are holding this page against a real stub from one of those cities, the gap you find is almost certainly the city and not a fault in the state figure.

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.

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

Every filing status
Annual wages	Tax on the lower figure	Rate on the rest
$0.00 and up	$0.00	4.25%

Exemption per allowance: $5,900.00
Taken off the income before the schedule.

State tax only. Around two dozen Michigan cities levy a separate local income tax that is withheld on top of this.

Michigan Income Tax Withholding Guide, 446 (Rev. 02-26), which withholds 4.25% of compensation after the personal exemption. The February 2026 edition replaced the October 2025 one at the same address, leaving both the rate and the exemption where they were.

Michigan sources

Frequently asked questions

What Michigan law asks of a pay stub

Whether a stub is required, how it may be delivered, and the minimum wage and pay frequency rules.

Michigan pay stub requirements