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

Check the date on the paycheck first, because Ohio changed its schedule mid-year and the two halves of the year come out differently on the same wage. The state figure is what the current schedule yields after your exemptions, and it rides alongside federal income tax, Social Security and Medicare. The calculator above uses whichever schedule is in force today.

Which Ohio schedule applies to my paycheck?

The one in effect on the day you were paid, rather than the day the work was done. Both are printed below with the date each begins, so a stub from earlier in the year can be held against the schedule that was current when it was issued.

Do single and joint filers see different Ohio withholding?

No. The state publishes one set of rows that every filing status reads, so a joint filer and a single filer on the same wage lose the same amount to Ohio. Status still moves the federal line sitting beside it on the stub.

What is an Ohio exemption worth?

A fixed sum off the income before the schedule is applied, claimed for yourself and for each dependant on the state certificate. Because it lowers the income and not the tax, it is worth slightly more to someone whose pay reaches the upper rows.

Ohio paycheck calculator

Ohio reads a short graduated schedule that every filing status shares, after taking a fixed sum off the income for each exemption claimed on the state's certificate. The schedule it reads changed part way through the year, so which paycheck you are asking about matters here in a way it does not in most states.

Take-home pay

$1,644.98

per bi-weekly (26 per year) period

Worked out on the OH schedule in effect from August 1, 2026. The state changed rate during 2026, and both schedules are below.

Gross pay: $2,000.00
Federal Income Tax: −$156.15
Social Security: −$124.00
Medicare: −$29.00
OH State Income Tax: −$45.87
Net pay: $1,644.98

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

How Ohio withholding is worked out

The state published a new withholding schedule with effect from the first of August, and both appear below because both were right for part of the year. A paycheck dated in the spring is worked out on the earlier one and a paycheck dated in the autumn on the later one; the answer above uses whichever is in effect now. The exemption did not move between the two, so the whole of the difference sits in the schedule itself. Anyone reconciling a stub from earlier in the year against this page should check its date before deciding the numbers disagree.

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.

In effect from January 1, 2026

Ohio 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 to $26,050.00	$0.00	1.775%
$26,050.00 to $100,000.00	$462.39	2.99%
$100,000.00 and up	$2,673.49	3.64%

Exemption per allowance: $650.00
Taken off the income before the schedule.

State tax only. Ohio municipalities and school districts charge income taxes of their own, withheld by the employer on top of this.

Payroll periods ending before 1 August 2026 use the tables effective 1 October 2025. Annual thresholds are the weekly table times 52, the same convention as the current record. Ohio reaches the federal base through two sections of its code. ORC 5747.06(A) makes the employer withhold on "the amount of such compensation included in the employee's adjusted gross income", and ORC 5747.01(A) defines that term as "federal adjusted gross income, as defined and used in the Internal Revenue Code, adjusted as provided in this section". None of the modifications that section lists names a cafeteria plan, a 401(k) or deferred compensation, so a pre-tax deferral or premium stays out of the Ohio base as it stays out of the federal one.

In effect from August 1, 2026

Ohio 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 to $26,050.00	$0.00	1.6%
$26,050.00 to $100,000.00	$416.80	2.99%
$100,000.00 and up	$2,627.91	3.4%

Exemption per allowance: $650.00
Taken off the income before the schedule.

State tax only. Ohio municipalities and school districts charge income taxes of their own, withheld by the employer on top of this.

House Bill 96 cut Ohio's rates for payroll periods ending on or after 1 August 2026. Ohio reaches the federal base through two sections of its code. ORC 5747.06(A) makes the employer withhold on "the amount of such compensation included in the employee's adjusted gross income", and ORC 5747.01(A) defines that term as "federal adjusted gross income, as defined and used in the Internal Revenue Code, adjusted as provided in this section". None of the modifications that section lists names a cafeteria plan, a 401(k) or deferred compensation, so a pre-tax deferral or premium stays out of the Ohio base as it stays out of the federal one.

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What Ohio law asks of a pay stub

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