Minnesota paycheck calculator
Minnesota does not take its allowances from the federal W-4, which stopped counting them. An employee fills in Form W-4MN as well, and every allowance claimed there takes the same fixed sum off a year's pay. What remains goes through a schedule whose first slice is withheld at nothing, with one column for single employees and one for married.
Take-home pay
$1,585.72
per bi-weekly (26 per year) period
- Gross pay
- $2,000.00
- Federal Income Tax
- −$156.15
- Social Security
- −$124.00
- Medicare
- −$29.00
- MN State Income Tax
- −$105.13
- Net pay
- $1,585.72
Carries these figures into a full Minnesota pay stub you can preview and download.
How Minnesota withholding is worked out
An employee who never hands in a W-4MN is withheld as single with no allowances, whatever the federal form says, and that is also where this calculator starts. A head of household has no column of their own and reads the single one. The allowance is the same amount at every income, so it shelters less of a larger wage. Beside the income tax, Minnesota Paid Leave lets an employer deduct part of its premium from wages. How much depends on the employer, so the line is left out here, and a stub from an employer that passes the premium on will show a deduction this figure does not.
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 $4,700.00 | $0.00 | 0% |
| $4,700.00 to $38,010.00 | $0.00 | 5.35% |
| $38,010.00 to $114,130.00 | $1,782.09 | 6.8% |
| $114,130.00 to $207,850.00 | $6,958.25 | 7.85% |
| $207,850.00 and up | $14,315.27 | 9.85% |
| Annual wages | Tax on the lower figure | Rate on the rest |
|---|---|---|
| $0.00 to $14,700.00 | $0.00 | 0% |
| $14,700.00 to $63,400.00 | $0.00 | 5.35% |
| $63,400.00 to $208,180.00 | $2,605.45 | 6.8% |
| $208,180.00 to $352,630.00 | $12,450.49 | 7.85% |
| $352,630.00 and up | $23,789.82 | 9.85% |
| Annual wages | Tax on the lower figure | Rate on the rest |
|---|---|---|
| $0.00 to $4,700.00 | $0.00 | 0% |
| $4,700.00 to $38,010.00 | $0.00 | 5.35% |
| $38,010.00 to $114,130.00 | $1,782.09 | 6.8% |
| $114,130.00 to $207,850.00 | $6,958.25 | 7.85% |
| $207,850.00 and up | $14,315.27 | 9.85% |
- Exemption per allowance
- $5,300.00
Taken off the income before the schedule.
Withheld beside the income tax
- MN Paid Leave — not calculated here
- Minnesota Paid Leave began in 2026. The employer pays at least half the premium and may deduct the remainder from the employee's wages, and how large that premium is depends on the employer: a small employer pays 75 per cent of the ordinary rate. The line is named here without an amount, and that is where it stays: an employer counts as small only if it is both under the state's headcount and paying an average wage no higher than 150 per cent of the state average in covered employment, and the second half is a yearly figure of the state's that an employee has no way to answer for. 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 Minnesota law asks of a pay stub
Whether a stub is required, how it may be delivered, and the minimum wage and pay frequency rules.