2026 Hawaii paycheck calculator

What comes out of a Hawaii paycheck

On $1,500 every two weeks, single, a Hawaii worker keeps $1,223.70.

Hawaii's withholding rates run from 1.4 percent up to 7.9 percent. For a single worker, 1.4 percent applies to the first $9,600 of a year's taxable pay, and 7.9 percent applies above $125,000. For a married worker the steps are wider, and 7.9 percent starts above $250,000. The annual return has higher rates for very high incomes. The 2026 rates are the second step of a 2024 law, and the Department of Taxation says its withholding tables will change every year through 2031.

The method works on a full year of pay. The employer subtracts $1,144 for each allowance on Form HW-4, then a further $4,350 that every employee gets, and applies the rates to what is left. The result is divided back across the paychecks. You claim one allowance for yourself, one for a spouse if you are married, and one for each dependent. A head of household files as Single and takes one extra allowance.

The HW-4 also has a line for a single worker with one job, or a married worker with one job whose spouse does not work. The calculator does not assume it, so if it applies to you, $1,144 less of your yearly pay would be taxed than shown here. The state offers three equivalent methods, and the calculator uses the annualized one, which can differ from the per-period method by a cent. For $500 a week, single, with one allowance, that is $12.22 against $12.21.

County and local taxes

Hawaii's constitution reserves the power to tax to the state, except what the legislature hands to the counties, and the counties' main tax is on real property. The state's employer guide describes only state withholding. So no county or city income tax comes out of a Hawaii check, and the result is complete.

Disability and paid leave

Hawaii's Temporary Disability Insurance lets an employer take up to 0.5 percent of weekly wages from your pay, never more than $7.50 a week in 2026. That cap is half a percent of the $1,500.21 weekly wage base. The calculator shows this maximum, but you pay half the employer's actual premium up to it, so an employer may take less, or pay the whole cost.

The state sets the cap per week. For other pay periods the calculator spreads it as $15.00 biweekly, $16.25 semimonthly, and $32.50 monthly, a conversion the state does not print. Hawaii has no payroll deduction for paid family leave.

Final pay and the minimum wage

Hawaii's minimum wage is $16.00 an hour in 2026 and rises to $18.00 on January 1, 2028. Employers may count a $1.25 an hour tip credit, which makes the tipped cash wage $14.75, but only if wages plus tips come to at least $7.00 above the minimum.

A worker who is fired is owed full pay at the time of discharge, or no later than the next working day. A worker who quits is paid by the next regular payday, unless the worker gave at least one pay period's notice, in which case all wages are due at the moment of quitting.