2026 New Hampshire paycheck calculator
New Hampshire no longer taxes anything on a paycheck, and its tipped cash wage is 45 percent of $7.25.
Updated for 2026Checked Oct 29, 2026 against IRS and New Hampshire General Court sourcesHow we check
Your take-home pay
$1,289.10
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
- $1,289.10
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Take-home pay $1,289.10
New Hampshire pay rules at a glance
| State income tax | None Source |
| County or local tax | None Source |
| Disability or paid leave | None Source |
| Minimum wage | $7.25 an hour Source |
| Tipped minimum cash wage | $3.27 an hour, before tips Source |
| Final paycheck if you are let go | Within 72 hours if fired. A worker who is laid off is paid by the next regular payday. Source |
| Final paycheck if you quit | By the next regular payday; within 72 hours if the worker gave at least one pay period's notice. Source |
What comes out of a New Hampshire paycheck
On $1,500 every two weeks, single, a New Hampshire worker keeps $1,289.10.
New Hampshire does not tax wages. The state's old interest and dividends tax reached only investment income, never pay, and it was repealed for tax periods starting January 1, 2025. The state also repealed its commuters income tax in 2017. No state withholding form exists here, so claiming a dependent matters only on your federal W-4.
No state payroll premium is required from New Hampshire workers either. What leaves your check by law is the federal tax, Social Security, and Medicare. The state line in the calculator reads $0.00. We rely on the General Court's statutes here, because the Department of Revenue Administration's own site blocked our automated checks.
County and local taxes
No New Hampshire statute lets a city or town tax income, and the state's tax title lists no local income or wage tax. Both state income taxes on individuals, the interest and dividends tax and the commuters income tax, are repealed.
Property tax never appears on a paycheck, so there is no local amount to add to your result.
Final pay and the minimum wage
New Hampshire adopts the federal minimum wage, so the rate is $7.25 an hour. For tipped jobs the cash wage is $3.27 an hour. The law now in effect states it as 45 percent of $7.25, which is $3.2625, and $3.27 is the usual rounded figure. The state labor department's own statement of that rate was not available to us, so treat the cents as approximate and check your pay stub against your posted rate.
If you are fired, your final wages are due within 72 hours. If you are laid off, they are due by the next regular payday. If you quit, they are due by the next regular payday, or within 72 hours if you gave at least one pay period's notice.
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Sources and checks
Checked on Oct 29, 2026. Source: New Hampshire does not tax wages. Its interest and dividends tax under RSA chapter 77 reached only interest and dividend income, never wages, and it is now repealed: RSA chapter 77 (gc.nh.gov/rsa/html/V/77/77-mrg.htm, fetched Oct 29, 2026) reads "Chapter 77 Repealed - Entire Chapter was repealed [Repealed by 2021, 91:99, II, eff. Jan. 1, 2025.]" Laws of 2021, chapter 91 (HB 2; gc.nh.gov/legislation/2021/HB0002.html, fetched Oct 29, 2026) names the repeal "Repeals; Interest and Dividends Taxation" and repeals "RSA 77, relative to taxation of incomes."
Local taxes: No New Hampshire statute authorizes a city or town to tax income. The state's taxation title, RSA Title V (gc.nh.gov/rsa/html/NHTOC/NHTOC-V.htm, fetched Oct 29, 2026), lists no local income or wage tax; its two income taxes on individuals, chapter 77 (interest and dividends) and chapter 77-B (commuters income tax), are both repealed (77-B: "Repealed by 2017, 54:1, eff. Aug. 1, 2017").
Disability and paid leave: New Hampshire has no required state disability or paid leave payroll deduction. The Granite State Paid Family Leave Plan (RSA 21-I:99) is voluntary: RSA 21-I:100 (gc.nh.gov, fetched Oct 29, 2026) says it makes family and medical leave insurance available to employers "on a voluntary basis." An employer that buys this coverage may pass some cost to workers, but that is an employer plan choice, not a state rate the calculator can apply.
Minimum wage: RSA 279:21 (gc.nh.gov/rsa/html/XXIII/279/279-21.htm, fetched Oct 29, 2026): "no person, firm, or corporation shall employ any employee at an hourly rate lower than that set forth in the federal minimum wage law, as amended." New Hampshire adopts the federal rate, $7.25.
Final paycheck: RSA 275:44 (gc.nh.gov/rsa/html/XXIII/275/275-44.htm, fetched Oct 29, 2026): "I. Whenever an employer discharges an employee, the employer shall pay the employee's wages in full within 72 hours. II. Whenever an employee quits or resigns, the employer shall pay the employee's wages no later than the next regular payday... except that if the employee gives at least one pay period's notice of intention to quit the employer shall pay all wages earned by the employee within 72 hours. III. ...when an employee for any reason whatsoever is laid off, the employer shall pay in full to such employee not later than the next regular payday." Tipped wage: RSA 279:21, version in effect while the federal minimum stays at its July 23, 2021 level: tipped employees of a restaurant, hotel, motel, inn or cabin, or ballroom receive "not less than 45 percent of the applicable minimum wage" (45 percent of $7.25 is $3.2625); the companion version that takes effect if the federal rate rises sets a floor of "in no case less than $3.27 per hour."
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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