Vermont paycheck calculator
Vermont asks for its own Form W-4VT, which sets the filing status, the number of allowances and any extra amount to withhold. Each allowance takes a fixed sum off the wage, and what remains is read against one of two graduated schedules, single or married. Partners in a civil union or a civil marriage use the married schedule, and the department says they need the W-4VT to be withheld correctly.
Take-home pay
$1,628.91
per bi-weekly (26 per year) period
- Gross pay
- $2,000.00
- Federal Income Tax
- −$156.15
- Social Security
- −$124.00
- Medicare
- −$29.00
- VT State Income Tax
- −$61.94
- Net pay
- $1,628.91
Carries these figures into a full Vermont pay stub you can preview and download.
How Vermont withholding is worked out
An employer may fall back on the federal W-4 when no W-4VT has been filed, though the department warns that this can leave too little withheld and strongly recommends requiring the state form; extra federal withholding asked for on the federal form then raises the Vermont line by a share of that extra. Vermont's guide prints only a single and a married schedule, and this page reads head of household on the single one. Cafeteria plan premiums and retirement deferrals stay outside the tax, because Vermont's withholding duty reaches only payments that federal law requires income tax to be withheld from. The child care contribution is a payroll tax on the employer, which may pass up to a quarter of it on to the employee, a choice no answer on this page asks about.
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 $3,925.00 | $0.00 | 0% |
| $3,925.00 to $54,675.00 | $0.00 | 3.35% |
| $54,675.00 to $126,775.00 | $1,700.13 | 6.6% |
| $126,775.00 to $260,225.00 | $6,458.73 | 7.6% |
| $260,225.00 and up | $16,600.93 | 8.75% |
| Annual wages | Tax on the lower figure | Rate on the rest |
|---|---|---|
| $0.00 to $11,775.00 | $0.00 | 0% |
| $11,775.00 to $96,475.00 | $0.00 | 3.35% |
| $96,475.00 to $216,525.00 | $2,837.45 | 6.6% |
| $216,525.00 to $323,825.00 | $10,760.75 | 7.6% |
| $323,825.00 and up | $18,915.55 | 8.75% |
| Annual wages | Tax on the lower figure | Rate on the rest |
|---|---|---|
| $0.00 to $3,925.00 | $0.00 | 0% |
| $3,925.00 to $54,675.00 | $0.00 | 3.35% |
| $54,675.00 to $126,775.00 | $1,700.13 | 6.6% |
| $126,775.00 to $260,225.00 | $6,458.73 | 7.6% |
| $260,225.00 and up | $16,600.93 | 8.75% |
- Exemption per allowance
- $5,400.00
Taken off the income before the schedule.
The base is in the statute rather than in GB-1210, which states only that a payment subject to federal withholding is generally subject to Vermont's. 32 V.S.A. § 5841(a) reads on the payment and not on the employer: withholding is due from "payments that are also subject to Vermont income tax" by a person required under the laws of the United States to withhold federal income tax from them. A cafeteria premium and a retirement deferral are not payments federal income tax is withheld from, so they are outside the duty, and 32 V.S.A. § 5811(21) keeps them outside the tax as well by making an individual's taxable income the federal adjusted gross income with listed adjustments. GB-1210 does warn that Vermont taxable wages can differ from federal ones over fringe benefits affecting an employee's partner, but that is imputed income for one class of employee, not either of the deductions the form has a line for.
Withheld beside the income tax
- VT Child Care Contribution — up to 0.11%, if your employer withholds it
- Vermont's child care contribution is a payroll tax on the employer, which may pass up to a quarter of it on to the employee, and need not do so equally. The state sets the ceiling and the employer decides how much of it to take, so this calculator leaves the line out. The generator carries it once you say what your employer withholds.
Vermont sources
Frequently asked questions
What Vermont law asks of a pay stub
Whether a stub is required, how it may be delivered, and the minimum wage and pay frequency rules.