How much tax is taken out of my paycheck in North Dakota?

It follows the filing status on your federal W-4 and nothing else on the state side: the year's pay is read against the North Dakota table for that status, and the first part of it draws no withholding at all. Extra North Dakota withholding is a matter of asking the employer, as the state has no form or procedure for it.

What is the state income tax rate for North Dakota?

The tables are graduated, with an untaxed stretch at the bottom, and the point where each rate begins depends on the filing status on the federal W-4. Pay below the first threshold for your status draws no North Dakota withholding.

Does North Dakota use my federal W-4?

Yes. With a W-4 from 2020 or later the employer picks the North Dakota table by the filing status checked in Step 1(c), and there is no state allowance certificate to fill in. A newly hired employee without any W-4 is withheld as single.

What if my W-4 is from before 2020?

Then North Dakota withholds by its older method, which subtracts an amount for each allowance on that form before reading a single or a married table. This page follows the newer method and asks for no allowances, so an employee still on an old form may see a different North Dakota line.

North Dakota paycheck calculator

North Dakota works from the federal Form W-4: for a form from 2020 or later it reads the filing status checked there and counts no allowances. Each status has its own annual table, single, married filing jointly and head of household, and each opens with a stretch of taxable wage on which nothing is withheld before the graduated rates begin.

Take-home pay

$1,690.85

per bi-weekly (26 per year) period

Gross pay: $2,000.00
Federal Income Tax: −$156.15
Social Security: −$124.00
Medicare: −$29.00
ND State Income Tax: −$0.00
Net pay: $1,690.85

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

How North Dakota withholding is worked out

A newly hired employee who has not handed in a W-4 is treated as single. An older W-4, from before 2020, still works by allowances, and North Dakota keeps separate tables for it; this page follows the method for the newer form only, so a stub based on an old form can differ. North Dakota takes its definition of wages from the one used for federal income tax withholding, so pay that falls outside the federal definition, such as a 401(k) deferral or a cafeteria plan premium, falls outside the North Dakota base too.

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.

Single
Annual wages	Tax on the lower figure	Rate on the rest
$0.00 to $57,625.00	$0.00	0%
$57,625.00 to $258,450.00	$0.00	1.95%
$258,450.00 and up	$3,916.09	2.5%

Married filing jointly
Annual wages	Tax on the lower figure	Rate on the rest
$0.00 to $57,500.00	$0.00	0%
$57,500.00 to $168,525.00	$0.00	1.95%
$168,525.00 and up	$2,164.99	2.5%

Head of household
Annual wages	Tax on the lower figure	Rate on the rest
$0.00 to $78,475.00	$0.00	0%
$78,475.00 to $289,675.00	$0.00	1.95%
$289,675.00 and up	$4,118.40	2.5%

North Dakota withholds whole dollars: the amount for each pay period is taken to the nearest dollar.

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Frequently asked questions

What North Dakota law asks of a pay stub

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

North Dakota pay stub requirements