2026 Louisiana paycheck calculator
Louisiana's income tax is a flat 3 percent, but employers withhold 3.09 percent after a standard deduction.
Updated for 2026Checked Oct 29, 2026 against IRS and Louisiana Department of Revenue sourcesHow we check
Your take-home pay
$1,258.05
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
- $1,258.05
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Take-home pay $1,258.05
Louisiana 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 | By the next regular payday or within 15 days of the discharge, whichever comes first. Source |
| Final paycheck if you quit | By the next regular payday for the pay cycle the worker was in when they left, or within 15 days of the resignation, whichever comes first. Source |
What comes out of a Louisiana paycheck
On $1,500 every two weeks, single, a Louisiana worker keeps $1,258.05.
Louisiana's income tax rate for 2026 is a flat 3 percent. The withholding formula in the Department of Revenue's table booklet still prints 3.09 percent, so that is the rate the calculator uses on each paycheck. The gap between the two is small.
A standard deduction comes off your pay first: $12,875 a year if you check Block A "1" on Form L-4 (single or married filing separately), or $25,750 a year for Block A "2" (married filing jointly, a qualifying surviving spouse, or head of household). The formula divides that amount by the number of pay periods, subtracts it from the wages for the period, and multiplies what is left by 3.09 percent. A paycheck smaller than the per-period deduction has no Louisiana tax taken at all.
Form L-4 has no line for dependents, so children do not change what Louisiana withholds. If no L-4 is on file, the instructions have the employer withhold with no standard deduction, which takes more from each check. The calculator assumes you filled one out. Louisiana does not subtract federal tax from your wages before figuring its own.
County and local taxes
The Department of Revenue's 2026 withholding tables and Form L-4 cover state income tax only. Neither mentions a parish or city wage tax, and the L-4 has no local line.
No official Louisiana page states in so many words that there is no local income tax, so this conclusion rests on those two documents. On that reading, a Louisiana pay stub shows state tax and nothing local, and the result is not missing a local amount.
Final pay and the minimum wage
Louisiana has no state minimum wage law, so the federal $7.25 an hour applies to employers covered by the Fair Labor Standards Act. State law also bars parishes and cities from setting their own minimum wage. The tipped cash wage is $2.13 an hour, before tips.
If you are discharged, your final pay is due by the next regular payday or within 15 days of the discharge, whichever comes first. If you resign, it is due by the next regular payday for the pay cycle you were working in, or within 15 days of your resignation, whichever comes first.
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Sources and checks
Checked on Oct 29, 2026. Source: Louisiana Department of Revenue, R-1306 (1/26), "Louisiana Withholding Tables and Formulas, Effective on or after January 1, 2026", PDF page 2 (printed page 1): "2026 Standard Deduction: 1. Single Individual and Married-Separate ... $12,875 2. Married-Joint Return, Qualified Surviving Spouse, or Head of Household ... $25,750" and "Formulas - Based on a 3.09% Withholding Rate" (dam.ldr.la.gov/taxforms/1306-1-26.pdf, saved as data/sources/louisiana/1306-1-26.pdf, read Oct 29, 2026). Revenue Information Bulletin 26-005 (January 12, 2026, saved as data/sources/louisiana/RIB-26-005-Updated-Withholding-Tables.pdf) explains the indexed standard deduction.
Local taxes: The Louisiana Department of Revenue's R-1306 (1/26) withholding tables and formulas and Form L-4 (R-1300, 1/26), saved in data/sources/louisiana/ and read Oct 29, 2026, describe state income tax withholding only, with no parish or city wage tax and no local line on the L-4. No official Louisiana page saying "no local income tax" in those words was found (see openQuestions).
Disability and paid leave: Louisiana runs no state disability or paid-family-leave program paid by an employee payroll deduction: R-1306 (1/26) (saved as data/sources/louisiana/1306-1-26.pdf, read Oct 29, 2026) covers state income tax as the only state withholding on wages; no Louisiana law or agency page describing such a program was found.
Minimum wage: U.S. Department of Labor, Wage and Hour Division, "State Minimum Wage Laws" (dol.gov/agencies/whd/minimum-wage/state, "Updated July 1, 2026", saved as data/sources/louisiana/dol-whd-state-minimum-wage.html, read Oct 29, 2026): "Louisiana: No state minimum wage law. Employers subject to the Fair Labor Standards Act must pay the current Federal minimum wage of $7.25 per hour." Louisiana R.S. 23:642 (legis.la.gov/Legis/Law.aspx?d=83958, saved as data/sources/louisiana/la-rs-23-642.html, read Oct 29, 2026) bars parishes and cities from setting a local minimum wage. No scheduled change.
Final paycheck: Louisiana R.S. 23:631(A)(1) (legis.la.gov/Legis/Law.aspx?d=83945, saved as data/sources/louisiana/la-rs-23-631.html, read Oct 29, 2026): (a) on discharge, pay "on or before the next regular payday or no later than fifteen days following the date of discharge, whichever occurs first"; (b) on resignation, "on or before the next regular payday for the pay cycle during which the employee was working at the time of separation or no later than fifteen days following the date of resignation, whichever occurs first."
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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