2026 Arkansas paycheck calculator
Arkansas withholding tops out at 3.7 percent, after a $2,470 standard deduction and a $29 credit per exemption.
Updated for 2026Checked Oct 29, 2026 against IRS and Arkansas Department of Finance and Administration sourcesHow we check
Your take-home pay
$1,252.33
per paycheck, paid every two weeks
- Gross pay
- $1,500.00
- Federal income tax
- $96.15
- Social Security
- $93.00
- Medicare
- $21.75
- County tax
- Choose your county
- Take-home
- $1,252.33
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Take-home pay $1,252.33
Arkansas pay rules at a glance
| State income tax | Rates rise with pay Source |
| County or local tax | None Source |
| Disability or paid leave | None Source |
| Minimum wage | $11.00 an hour Source |
| Tipped minimum cash wage | $2.63 an hour, before tips Source |
| Final paycheck if you are let go | By the next regular payday. An employer that has not paid within 7 days of the next regular payday owes double the wages due. Source |
| Final paycheck if you quit | No Arkansas statute sets a deadline when a worker quits that we could confirm; the employer pays on its normal schedule (see openQuestions). Source |
What comes out of a Arkansas paycheck
On $1,500 every two weeks, single, an Arkansas worker keeps $1,252.33.
Arkansas cut its top rate from 3.9 percent to 3.7 percent during 2026, back to January 1. The Department of Finance and Administration reposted its formula on May 29, 2026, and the calculator uses that newer version. The rates step up as pay rises: 0, 2, 3, 3.4, and then 3.7 percent.
The formula works on a full year of pay. It takes your yearly wages, subtracts the $2,470 standard deduction, and finds the matching line in a table. Below $100,001 of taxable pay, that lookup uses the middle of a $100 band, so $23,054 is treated as $23,050. The result is multiplied by the bracket rate, a bracket adjustment is taken off, and the yearly tax is rounded to the whole dollar. Then each exemption on Form AR4EC cuts the tax by $29, and the rest is divided across your paychecks. A tax that falls below zero counts as zero.
Exemptions come from the form. A single worker claims 1, a married worker or head of household claims 2, and each dependent adds one more. Filing status changes nothing else in the math.
Figures here follow the formula. The state's printed wage tables do not round the yearly tax, so some of their rows differ from the formula by a cent. At $999 to $1,001 a week with no exemptions, the table shows $28.20 and the formula gives $28.19. The state also has low-income tables for workers who answer Yes on line 5 of the AR4EC, and the calculator does not assume that answer.
County and local taxes
Arkansas's withholding formula, its employer instructions, and Form AR4EC deal with state tax only. None mentions a city or county wage tax, and the form has no local line. No official page says outright that Arkansas has none, so this rests on what those papers leave out.
For a worker, that means the state line is the whole income tax on the stub and the result has nothing local missing.
Final pay and the minimum wage
The Arkansas minimum wage is $11.00 an hour, in place since January 1, 2021, and the state law covers employers with 4 or more employees. Tipped workers must be paid at least $2.63 an hour in cash.
An employer that fires you owes all wages by the next regular payday. If the pay is still missing seven days after that payday, the employer owes double the wages due.
We could not confirm an Arkansas deadline for a worker who quits. Absent one, expect the normal payday.
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Sources and checks
Checked on Oct 29, 2026. Source: Arkansas Department of Finance and Administration, Withholding Tax Formula Method, "Effective 01/01/2026" (current file, last modified May 29, 2026), pages 2 and 3: "Subtract the Standard Deduction of $ 2,470", top bracket "$97,601 and over 3.70% $79.90", "Multiply the total number of Withholding Exemptions claimed on Form AR4EC by $29.00" (dfa.arkansas.gov/wp-content/uploads/Withholding-Tax-Formula.pdf, saved as data/sources/arkansas/Withholding-Tax-Formula.pdf, read Oct 29, 2026). The Withholding Tax Instructions for Employers ("Revised: 4/27/26", saved as data/sources/arkansas/Withholding-Tax-Instructions-for-Employers.pdf): "The current withholding tax rate is 3.7%."
Local taxes: The Arkansas Department of Finance and Administration's 2026 Withholding Tax Formula, Withholding Tax Instructions for Employers (Revised 4/27/26), and Form AR4EC (saved in data/sources/arkansas/, read Oct 29, 2026) describe state income tax withholding only, with no city or county wage tax and no local line on the AR4EC. No official Arkansas page saying "no local income tax" in those words was found (see openQuestions).
Disability and paid leave: Arkansas runs no state disability or paid-family-leave program paid by an employee payroll deduction: the DFA Withholding Tax Instructions for Employers (Revised 4/27/26, saved as data/sources/arkansas/Withholding-Tax-Instructions-for-Employers.pdf, read Oct 29, 2026) cover state income tax as the only state withholding on wages; no Arkansas law or agency page describing such a program was found.
Minimum wage: Arkansas Department of Labor and Licensing, "Minimum Wage and Overtime" (labor.arkansas.gov/labor/labor-standards/minimum-wage-and-overtime/, read Oct 29, 2026 through a web fetch because the site refuses this machine's direct downloads, so no copy is saved): "Effective January 1, 2021, the minimum wage in Arkansas is $11.00 per hour.", "The Arkansas Minimum Wage Act covers employers with 4 or more employees.", "Tipped employees must be paid at least $2.63 per hour." Cross-checked against U.S. Department of Labor, Wage and Hour Division, "Minimum Wages for Tipped Employees" (dol.gov/agencies/whd/state/minimum-wage/tipped, saved as data/sources/arkansas/dol-whd-state-tipped-minimum-wage.html, read Oct 29, 2026): "Arkansas $11.00 $8.37 $2.63". No scheduled change.
Final paycheck: Arkansas Code Section 11-4-405 as amended by Act 853 of 2019, Section 7 (approved 4/10/19; arkleg.state.ar.us/Home/FTPDocument?path=%2FACTS%2F2019R%2FPublic%2FACT853.pdf, saved as data/sources/arkansas/Act-853-of-2019.pdf, read Oct 29, 2026): "An employer that discharges an employee is required to pay all wages due by the next regular payday. (b) An employer that fails to make the payment required under subsection (a) of this section within seven (7) days of the next regular payday shall owe the employee double the wages due."
Federal withholding: IRS Publication 15-T (2026), Worksheet 1A and its "2026 Percentage Method Tables for Automated Payroll Systems and Withholding on Periodic Payments of Pensions and Annuities," pages 10 to 12. Fetched directly from irs.gov/pub/irs-pdf/p15t.pdf and transcribed Oct 28, 2026.
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