2026 Georgia paycheck calculator
Georgia cut its flat income tax rate to 4.99 percent in May 2026, and gives $5,000 per dependent.
Updated for 2026Checked Oct 29, 2026 against IRS and Georgia Department of Revenue sourcesHow we check
Your take-home pay
$1,243.04
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
- $1,243.04
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Take-home pay $1,243.04
Georgia pay rules at a glance
| State income tax | Flat rate Source |
| County or local tax | None Source |
| Disability or paid leave | None Source |
| Minimum wage | $7.25 an hour Source |
| Tipped minimum cash wage | $2.13 an hour, before tips Source |
| Final paycheck if you are let go | Not confirmed from an official Georgia source: no Georgia statute or Georgia Department of Labor page setting a final-paycheck deadline could be read (see openQuestions). Source |
| Final paycheck if you quit | Not confirmed from an official Georgia source (see openQuestions). Source |
What comes out of a Georgia paycheck
On $1,500 every two weeks, single, a Georgia worker keeps $1,243.04.
Georgia taxes wages at a flat 4.99 percent for 2026. HB 463 cut the rate from 5.19 percent, retroactive to January 1, but the Department of Revenue's guide lets employers keep withholding 5.19 percent on pay before May 11, 2026 and use 4.99 percent from that date. The calculator uses 4.99 percent, the rate for a paycheck dated today.
Before the rate applies, a standard deduction comes off your pay: $15,000 a year for single or head of household workers and $30,000 for married filing jointly. Form G-4 then lets you subtract $5,000 a year for each dependent on line 4, which lowers Georgia tax by about $249.50 a year each. Line 5 adds $5,000 allowances for Georgia adjustments such as retirement income, and the calculator assumes none.
A married worker whose spouse also works should use letter B on the G-4, which has a smaller deduction of $15,000. The calculator uses letter C because it asks only for your federal status. A worker who files no G-4 is withheld as single with zero allowances. Georgia does not subtract federal tax, and the wage-bracket tables differ from the percentage method by a few cents.
County and local taxes
Georgia's Department of Revenue guide for 2026 covers state withholding only. Its tables, its percentage method, and Form G-4 contain no city or county withholding, and the G-4 has no local line. No official page says "no local income tax" in those words, so this conclusion rests on the guide.
On that reading, a Georgia stub shows no local income tax, and the result is not missing a local amount.
Final pay and the minimum wage
Georgia's minimum wage in our records is $7.25 an hour, the federal rate. The $2.13 tipped cash wage is also the federal figure, because Georgia's own law sets no tipped wage that the state labor department publishes.
We cannot tell you Georgia's final pay deadline. We could not read a Georgia statute or a Department of Labor page that sets one, so the page does not state a rule for either firings or resignations. Your offer letter or employee handbook should name the regular payday.
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Sources and checks
Checked on Oct 29, 2026. Source: Georgia Department of Revenue, 2026 Employer's Tax Guide (cover: "REVISED: September 2026"), page 3, What's New for Tax Year 2026: "The income tax rate has been reduced from a flat rate of 5.19% to a flat rate of 4.99%. Note: Employers must continue to withhold at the rate of 5.19% before the effective date of the change and can begin withholding at the new rate of 4.99%, starting May 11, 2026"; page 51, Table E, annual standard deduction $30,000 married filing joint, $15,000 single or head of household, $15,000 married filing separate, dependent allowance $5,000 (dor.georgia.gov/document/document/2026-employers-tax-guide-updated-june-2026/download, saved as data/sources/georgia/2026-employers-tax-guide-updated-june-2026.pdf, read Oct 29, 2026).
Local taxes: The Georgia Department of Revenue's 2026 Employer's Tax Guide (saved as data/sources/georgia/2026-employers-tax-guide-updated-june-2026.pdf, read Oct 29, 2026) describes Georgia state income tax withholding only, with no city or county withholding anywhere in its tables, percentage method, or Form G-4; Form G-4 (Rev. 06/03/26) has no local line. No official Georgia page saying "no local income tax" in those words was found (see openQuestions).
Disability and paid leave: Georgia runs no state disability or paid-family-leave insurance program paid by an employee payroll deduction: the 2026 Employer's Tax Guide (saved as data/sources/georgia/2026-employers-tax-guide-updated-june-2026.pdf, read Oct 29, 2026) covers Georgia income tax as the only state withholding on wages; no Georgia law or agency page describing such a program was found.
Minimum wage: Georgia Department of Labor, "Minimum Wage" (dol.georgia.gov/minimum-wage, saved as data/sources/georgia/gdol-minimum-wage.html, read Oct 29, 2026): "Georgia's minimum wage is $5.15 per hour, however, with some limited exceptions, the federal minimum wage rate applies," citing O.C.G.A. 34-4-3 and the Fair Labor Standards Act; the same page gives the federal minimum wage as $7.25 per hour. The calculator shows $7.25 because it covers the workers the federal rate applies to. No scheduled change.
Final paycheck: Unconfirmed. The official Georgia Code is published through a third-party host that answered with a bot check, so O.C.G.A. 34-7-2 (pay periods) could not be read from an official copy, and the Georgia Department of Labor site has no final-pay page (dol.georgia.gov, checked Oct 29, 2026).
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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