2026 Mississippi paycheck calculator

What comes out of a Mississippi paycheck

On $1,500 every two weeks, single, a Mississippi worker keeps $1,257.10.

For 2026 Mississippi taxes income at 4 percent, but only the part over $10,000. Before that, your pay is cut down by an exemption and a standard deduction, both of which depend on the box you check on Form 89-350. The Department of Revenue publishes its formula as a payroll flowchart, and the calculator follows it.

The steps run like this. Your paycheck is scaled up to a full year, the exemption and standard deduction come off, and 4 percent is applied to what remains above $10,000. That yearly tax is divided back across your paychecks and rounded to the whole dollar.

The amounts by filing status are these. A single worker gets a $6,000 exemption and a $2,300 standard deduction. A married worker whose spouse has no job gets $12,000 and $4,600. A head of family gets $9,500, which is $8,000 plus $1,500 for the dependent who qualifies them, and a $3,400 standard deduction. Every other dependent adds $1,500 of exemption, worth $60 a year at the 4 percent rate.

The calculator does not ask whether your spouse works, so it treats every married worker as having a spouse who does not. If your spouse works, line 2(b) of the form gives a $2,300 standard deduction and a split exemption, and more tax comes out than shown here. Mississippi's form calls for a dependent to claim head of family, but the calculator uses the $9,500 exemption for anyone who picks head of household.

Figures follow the formula. One row in the state's biweekly table, wages of $800 to $820 in the $9,000 exemption column, prints $7 where the formula gives $0, which looks like a misprint. We could not confirm the rate for 2027 and later from an official source.

County and local taxes

Mississippi's withholding publication and payroll flowchart cover state income tax and nothing else. Neither lists a city or county wage tax, and Form 89-350 asks for no local information.

The state does not say in plain words that localities cannot tax wages, so this is a reading of what the documents include. On that reading a Mississippi paycheck loses state tax and no local amount, and the result is complete as it stands.

Final pay and the minimum wage

Mississippi has no state minimum wage law. The federal $7.25 an hour applies to employers the Fair Labor Standards Act covers, and the tipped cash wage is $2.13 an hour before tips.

We could not find a Mississippi statute or state agency page that sets a deadline for final pay, whether the job ends by firing or by quitting. Unless that changes, assume the employer's normal payday.